This week’s Privacy Tracker roundup highlights a controversial new antiterrorism law in Kuwait that would see mandatory DNA collection from all citizens, residents and visitors to the country. Also, Russia has passed a right-to-be-forgotten law, and Ireland is expected to pass a new law giving adopted individuals access to their birth certificates. In the U.S., another student privacy bill has been introduced while senators that have already proposed student privacy bills hope to work together to push a single bill forward. Also, there’s a new bill aiming to reform FISMA. The courts have also been busy deciding on Neiman Marcus, butt-dialing, a Florida healthcare privacy law and Facebook denying search warrants.

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The Irish government is expected to adopt a new law that will give adopted people access to their birth certificates and also includes privacy provisions for biological parents, reports The Independent.

Human Rights Watch reports on a new mandatory DNA collection law in Kuwait that will require all Kuwaiti citizens, foreign residents and temporary visitors to submit DNA samples to a database that will be maintained and operated by the Interior Ministry.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law right-to-be-forgotten legislation, which will go into effect January 1, reports the Norton Rose Fulbright Data Protection Report.

Mondaq reports on the data protection environment in Turkey and how it compares to legislative approaches in the EU, UK and U.S.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit answered some questions related to the reasonable expectation of privacy of the contents of a call when an individual “butt dials” an acquaintance, reports The Washington Post.

New Hampshire has enacted legislation to prohibit the government from obtaining location information from mobile devices without a warrant, reports the Center for Democracy & Technology.

ICYMI

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has allowed a class-action lawsuit against Neiman Marcus to proceed, and IAPP VP of Research and Education Omer Tene writes for Privacy Tracker that it may open the class-action floodgates.

Timothy Banks, CIPP/C, writes for Privacy Tracker about what we know and what we can expect for the yet-to-be-enacted provisions of Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

U.S.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) have introduced the FISMA Reform Act, a bill that would formalize the Department of Homeland Security's role in protecting government networks and websites, The Hill reports.

Yet another student data protection bill has been introduced, this one dubbed the Student Privacy Protection Act and championed by Reps. Todd Rokita (R-IN) and Marcia Fudge (D-OH), The Hill reports.

In an interview with Healthcare Info Security, Wiley Rein's Kirk Nahra, CIPP/US, discusses the 21st Century Cures Bill, recently passed by the House of Representatives.

A bill that aims to serve as a legislative guideline for organizations post-breach has lost traction in Congress, with opponents claiming it would preempt state laws and suggesting there is "no bipartisan path forward," Roll Call reports.

A group of senators wants the Federal Communications Commission to ensure that broadband providers do not share data about users' web behavior without the users' consent, MediaPost reports.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who introduced the Safe Kids Act with Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), hopes to work with other legislators to work out the differences between their bill and one proposed by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ed Markey (D-MA),The Hill reports.

A New York state appeals court has ruled Facebook does not have the right to refuse search warrants for its users, The New York Times reports, disagreeing with Facebook's assertion that “the federal Stored Communications Act gave it the standing to contest the warrants.”

A Florida appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of a controversial change in Florida's medical malpractice law, "ruling in part that some privacy rights are waived when people pursue malpractice lawsuits," Orlando Sentinel reports.

EU

Reuters reports on the rise in domestic government surveillance in EU member states, citing a new surveillance law in France and the European Parliament’s recent stepping down in a fight against new passenger name record regulations.

The UK High Court has struck down a key provision in the nation's Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act, Politico EU reports, agreeing with some MPs that it does not include enough privacy or data-protection safeguards.

Rhineland-Palatinate Privacy Commissioner Dieter Kugelmann argues that the legality of Germany's data retention bill is problematic, Eco International reports.

ASIA-PACIFIC

The Modi government told India's Supreme Court that citizens cannot invoke the concept of the fundamental right to privacy in attempts to scrap the Aadhaar national identity card program, India Today reports.

Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim is also taking on the role of acting Australian information commissioner, Computerworld reports.

A new Civil Aviation Authority rule, announced in New Zealand, requires users of unmanned aerial vehicles "to have a safety plan in place and consent from owners of property they are flying over," Radio New Zealand News reports. The regulation goes into effect August 1.