In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about a new bill passed by the Dutch Senate that would give the nation's intelligence agencies broad surveillance authority. Germany has become the first country to pass a law implementing the General Data Protection Regulation. The Australian government is proposing a new cybersecurity law mandating tech companies turn over encrypted messages by suspected extremists and criminals to law enforcement agencies. The U.S. House Appropriations Committee blocked a law allowing law enforcement to obtain cloud-hosted documents without a warrant, and Michigan’s governor signed into law a bill establishing guidelines and procedures for police officers wearing body cameras, which some say would significantly limit public access to the recordings.
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Poland’s Inspector General for Personal Data Protection presented a report on geolocation highlighting the current uses of location data and their privacy risks, and outlining the applicable legislative provisions for its lawful processing, Data Guidance reports.
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The Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police is expected to have a draft policy for naming homicide victims by August 1, at which time Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton will have weighed in on the policy, the Edmonton Journal reports.
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The U.S. House Appropriations Committee unanimously approved blocking a law that allows law enforcement to obtain cloud-hosted documents without a warrant, The Hill reports.
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Michigan Gov. Rock Snyder has signed into law a bill establishing guidelines and procedures for police officers wearing body cameras, which some say would significantly limit public access to the recordings, The Detroit News reports.
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ICYMI
In this video interview, IAPP European Correspondent Jennifer Baker speaks with Estonian MEP Marju Lauristin, rapporteur for ePrivacy, about how she sees ePrivacy and GDPR working together, how issues like ancillary services and cookies will be handled, and what to do about consent fatigue.
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Alex Wall, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, compares the Philippines’ Data Privacy Act of 2012, as supplemented by the Implementing Rules and Regulations, with the principles expressed by the GDPR for the Privacy Tracker GDPR matchup series.
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US
A judge ruled the information collected from the pacemaker belonging to Ross Compton can be presented at his arson trial, CNET reports.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's voting commission has asked all 50 states and the District of Columbia to hold off sending vast swaths of voter data until a judge rules on a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, The Washington Post reports.
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A bill requiring law enforcement agencies to release body camera videos and recordings of fatal police shootings and other instances where force is used has been advanced by California lawmakers, ABC News reports.
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The Associated Press reports on the privacy debate surrounding bills allowing individuals who have been adopted to access their original birth certificates.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
The Australian government is proposing a new cybersecurity law mandating tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, turn over encrypted messages by suspected extremists and criminals to law enforcement agencies, the Guardian reports.
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EUROPE
The European Economic Area Joint Committee has formally adopted a decision to incorporate the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield adequacy decision into the EEA Agreement, which recognizes the framework as a valid mechanism to transfer data from EEA member states to the U.S. This will include Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
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A delegation from the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee will be visiting Washington, D.C., from July 17 to 21 to discuss several topics related to the protection of data privacy.
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Reuters reports the Dutch Senate has approved a law that would give the nation's intelligence agencies broad surveillance authority, including the collection of data en masse.
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Germany has become the first EU member state to enact a law to align with the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation, according to Bird & Bird's Lennart Schüßler and Natallia Karniyevich.
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The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee approved a new plan to speed up and bolster border checks around the European Union for non-EU citizens.
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DLA Piper’s Data Protection and Privacy blog reports on the ways Finland is preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation.
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U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has published her first annual report since taking over the position.
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