In this week's Privacy Tracker weekly roundup, read about a report stating the EU ePrivacy Regulation needs some significant revisions, what the Court of Justice of the European Union had to say about the proposed passenger name record agreement between the EU and Canada, and an announcement of new data protection initiatives from the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore. Plus, renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement could come in conflict with privacy laws in two Canadian provinces. In the U.S., two senators plan to introduce an update to the Email Communications Privacy Act, a congressman has introduced a bill to raise the priority of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, and a judge ruled the president's voter fraud commission doesn't need to conduct a privacy impact assessment before collecting state voter data.
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Myanmar’s parliament is expected to amend an online defamation law, VOA News reports.
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Hunton & Williams’ Privacy & Information Security Law Blog reports on a recently passed Nevada law requiring ISPs and website operators to inform users of what the data they collect and how it's used.
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New Jersey has a new law restricting the scanning and use of state-issued IDs by retailers, Hunton & Williams’ Privacy & Information Security Law Blog reports.
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ICYMI
The Court of Justice of the European Union said the proposed agreement between the EU and Canada on the transfer and processing of passenger name record data could not proceed without significant amendment. In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, Denis Kelleher, CIPP/E, details the court’s opinion and predicts what this might mean for other data transfer agreements.
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US
Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, plan to reveal a bill designed to update the Email Communications Privacy Act of 1986, The Hill reports.
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In a continued reorganization of the White House, The Hill reports that House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, has introduced a bill to raise the priority of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security.
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The Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to vote next week on nominations for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and agency commissioner nominees Jessica Rosenworcel and Brendan Carr, as well as on the nomination of David Redl as head of the National Telecommunications & Information Administration, Multichannel News reports.
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U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission does not need to conduct a privacy impact assessment before gathering citizens’ data, Politico reports.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
The Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore has announced a slew of data protection initiatives, according to a news release.
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Mashable reports that Chinese authorities have instructed residents in the province of Xinjiang to download a "surveillance app" on their phones to "automatically detect terrorist and illegal religious videos, images, e-books and electronic documents."
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CANADA
Renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement could come in conflict with privacy laws in two Canadian provinces, CBC News reports.
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EUROPE
A group of researchers from the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam published a report on the state of the European Commission’s proposed ePrivacy Regulation, The Register reports. In it, they found the ePrivacy Regulation needs significant revisions in four major areas.
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Germany’s Federal Labour Court has ruled that a company violated workers’ rights when it installed spy software on its computers, The Local reports.
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After the U.K. House of Lords’ EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee released a report on the details of data transfers post-Brexit, the U.K. House of Commons Library published a briefing paper on the subject, Reed Smith's Technology Law Dispatch reports.
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In what it says is an effort to block the spread of extremist material, Russia’s State Duma passed a bill outlawing the use of virtual private networks and other proxy services to access state-blocked websites, VOA reports.
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