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The Bermuda data protection law highlighted in last week’s Privacy Tracker roundup passed the House of Assembly; and the Russian anti-terror legislation is impossible to implement according to the country’s deputy minister of economic development. In Poland a new law allowing for the surveillance of foreigners without a court order has some concerned; and the U.K. is figuring out what leaving the EU means for its implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation. In the U.S., congresswomen have introduced bills making both revenge porn and sextortion a federal crime, a group of three senators has introduced a prescription drug monitoring bill and the House passed a mental health bill. Read about these happenings and more in this week’s Privacy Tracker weekly roundup.
LATEST NEWS
Bermuda’s House of Assembly passed the Personal Information Protection Act, reports The Royal Gazette.
Russia’s deputy minister of economic development says that the equipment necessary to implement the nation’s new anti-terror law is not available, reports Telecompaper.
Data Guidance reports on the U.K. Information Commissioner’s guidance on the General Data Protection Regulation and what the country’s imminent exit from the EU does to implementation.
A group of three U.S. senators, has introduced The Prescription Drug Monitoring Act, which would require all states that receive certain federal funding to implement prescription drug monitoring programs, reports the Register-Herald.
Health IT Security reports, The U.S. House has passed the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, which includes a provision noting that more clarity is needed around HIPAA privacy rules.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signed a student privacy bill that became law last month.
ICYMI
In this piece for Privacy Tracker, IAPP Westin Fellow Gabe Maldoff, CIPP/US, identifies the changes to the first draft of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield that exist in the finalized version and looks at what they mean for organizations looking to make use of the transfer mechanism between the EU and U.S.
Littler Shareholder Philip Gordon writes for Privacy Tracker about implementing a Privacy Shield compliance program for HR data, and whether U.S. multinationals should certify to the Privacy Shield.
In what is being called a huge decision for privacy, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals weighed in on a protracted legal battle between Microsoft and the U.S. government around access to emails stored by Microsoft on a server in Ireland. IAPP VP of Education and Research Omer Tene writes about the decision for Privacy Perspectives.
Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, reports for The Privacy Advisor on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to apply a new regime of privacy rules to broadband internet providers.
US
Reps. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and Susan Brooks, R-Ind., have introduced the Interstate Sextortion Prevention Act, which would make it a federal crime “to use threats to cause another person to produce sexually explicit content or engage in sexual activity against their will.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., has unveiled a federal bill that would criminalize so-called revenge porn, or non-consensual pornography, BuzzFeed News reports.
The Senate has passed a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill without the provisions that government and commercial users of drones must indicate when they collect personally identifiable information, PCWorld reports.
A Washington lawmaker has introduced a bill that would prevent employers from accessing data about employees’ birth control prescriptions, The Wall Street Journal reports.
A spending bill passed by the House on July 8 has some in the tech field concerned that provisions scaling back the Federal Communications Commission’s powers could prove harmful, the Morning Consult reports.
The New York Times reports that Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has written a letter to Senate Intelligence Committee leaders demanding they withdraw certain proposals that would limit the jurisdiction of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
ASIA-PACIFIC
As the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities get set to meet in Singapore next week, they have announced that Japan is the 19th data protection authority to join the group of regulators.
CANADA
A Global Affairs Canada memo from February has expressed governmental concerns that Europe may begin to hold Canada to the same legislative standards as the U.S. in light of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, officially adopted July 12, Reuters reports.
In this session from the 2016 IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium, IAPP Publications Director Sam Pfeifle and lawyer Donna Wilson discuss the victory she scored establishing Canada’s newest tort and what lies ahead. (Video)
The Chronicle Herald reports that Commissioner Daniel Therrien has weighed in with his office’s opinion on Canada’s upcoming breach notification regulations, which should be introduced in the coming months.
EUROPE
The Wall Street Journal reports on the expected legal challenges in the EU to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield arrangement.
Poland’s controversial new surveillance law allows the government to spy on foreigners within the country without a court order for up to three months, and could possibly have permitted snooping on world leaders at the NATO summit, Ars Technica reports.
The Interception of Communications Commissioner’s Office has published a review of Section 94 of the U.K.’s Telecommunications Act’s surveillance actions, Ars Technica reports.
The Bavarian Data Protection Authority has published a non-binding paper on the General Data Protection Regulation and video surveillance, the Hunton & Williams Privacy & Information Security Law Blog reports.