In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is set to roll out draft legislation for warrantless searches and data collection. The German Presidency of the Council of the European Union began ePrivacy Regulation discussions. The Supreme Court of Canada narrowly upheld the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act. And the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, handed out its largest EU General Data Protection Regulation fine to date.
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The São Paulo Public Prosecutor's Office announced it reached a BRL 2.5 million deal with Microsoft regarding the compliance of Windows 10's data collection and user consent policies with Brazilian data protection standards. (Original post is in Portuguese.)
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According to Hunton Andrews Kurth's Privacy & Information Security Law Blog, the Civil Code of China, which includes stipulations on privacy and personal information, was approved by the National People’s Congress of China in May and will take effect Jan. 1, 2021.
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In India, a government-appointed panel advocated for the creation of a regulator to oversee non-personal and anonymized data, Reuters reports.
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Oman's Council of State announced it began discussing the Draft Law on the Protection of Personal Data.
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., plans to introduce legislation that would prevent law enforcement from purchasing personal data that is normally obtained via warrant or court order, including location data collected from phone apps, Vice reports.
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An iPhone user filed a lawsuit to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging LinkedIn has access to user content pinned to Apple's Universal Clipboard app, Reuters reports.
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ICYMI
In this final piece in a series for Privacy Tracker on the California Consumer Privacy Act draft regulations, Thompson Hine Partners Steven Stransky, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, and Megan Glowacki look at how the CCPA’s accessibility requirements have evolved since their initial inception and are an important area of compliance potentially overlooked by businesses.
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ENFORCEMENT
The Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, fined Bureau Krediet Registration 830,000 euros for violating the EU General Data Protection Regulation. (Original post is in Dutch.)
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced the finalization of its settlement with Swiss game developer Miniclip on false claims regarding the company's participation in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act safe harbor program.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
Facebook, Google and Twitter announced they paused requests for user data from Hong Kong law enforcement agencies following China's implementation of a national security law for the city, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Businesses are asking India's House of Representatives not to include regulation of anonymized data in the Personal Data Protection Bill, The Jakarta Post reports.
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EUROPE
The European Commission is preparing for a scenario in which the Court of Justice of the EU invalidates the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement in the "Schrems II" case, Euractiv reports.
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The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled YouTube does not have to turn over the information of those who illegally upload movies to its platform, Reuters reports. The CJEU also ruled Germany's Petitions Committee is subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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The German Presidency of the Council of the European Union published a discussion paper regarding upcoming work on a potential ePrivacy Regulation.
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Human Rights Watch reports two complainants filed with the European Court of Human Rights regarding Russia's deployment of facial recognition during a September 2019 protest.
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US
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled a 2015 exemption to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 concerning robocalls violates First Amendment rights, Reuters reports.
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U.S. District Court Justice Lance Walker rejected the majority of a legal challenge to Maine's privacy law, the Portland Press Herald reports.
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The Massachusetts Senate is prepared to pass an omnibus police reform bill that will suspend the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, Bloomberg Law reports.
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Members of Michigan’s Legislative Black Caucus are calling for a similar facial recognition ban in potential police reform legislation, MLive.com reports.
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The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that banking records are not subject to reasonable expectations of privacy under the New Mexico Constitution, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
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A federal court rejected Equifax’s request to dismiss claims that it violated New York consumer protection law in failing to protect consumer data, resulting in a 2017 data breach affecting more than 145 million consumers, Bloomberg Law reports.
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