India awaits a new data protection law that would regulate how tech giants operate within the country, serving to rein in how companies collect, aggregate, store and process Indian user data. Lawmakers in Vietnam recently passed a cybersecurity law mandating new requirements for service providers that has some raising concern the law will impact economic growth and restrict freedom of expression. In the European Union, the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs is calling for the European Commission to suspend the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement, the Danish Parliament passed the Danish Data Protection Act, and in France, a new data protection law implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation was declared constitutional and ready for promulgation. In the U.S., California lawmakers have worked to introduce legislation that will protect privacy for marijuana consumers, New York is ready to pass a nonconsensual pornography bill, and North Carolina introduces a bill to give law enforcement unrestricted access to a person’s entire history of prescription drug use if they are under investigation for any drug crime.
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The National Law Review reports the Australian government announced it would propose new anti-terror laws that would include requirements for telecommunications and multinational tech companies to allow law enforcement agencies access to encrypted data of suspected criminals and terrorists.
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In France, the new data protection law, implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation, was declared constitutional and ready for promulgation, Lexology reports.
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In a blog post, the ACLU warns that North Carolina’s bill would give law enforcement unrestricted access to a person’s entire history of prescription drug use if they are under investigation for any drug crime.
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ICYMI
The Argentina Federal Court of Appeals on Civil and Commercial Matters has expanded the country’s data protections by ruling that the context in which data is gathered and processed matters when determining whether data is sensitive. Diego Fernandez, a senior associate at Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal, writes for Privacy Tracker about the case.
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Charmian Aw, CIPP/A, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, writes for Privacy Tracker about who is responsible for personal data in Singapore's growing gig economy.
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US
A spokesperson for the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee confirmed the panel plans to call former Cambridge Analytica Contractor Aleksandr Kogan to testify at a hearing held next week on data privacy risks, Reuters reports.
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With California expected to house the largest marijuana industry in the U.S., state lawmakers have worked to introduce legislation that will protect consumer privacy, Motherboard reports.
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New York is ready to pass a nonconsensual pornography bill, the New York Post reports. Introduced by New York Assemblyman Ed Braunstein, D-Bayside, in 2013, the bill would make the nonconsensual dissemination of sexually explicit images a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail.
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The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled 4-1 that a man was rightly convicted for burglary, stating that the police acted appropriately when they accessed his phone without a court-issued search warrant, The Augusta Chronicle reports.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has called for new privacy laws that would prevent harassment from unwanted media attention, the Australian Financial Review reports.
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A bill is expected in India’s Parliament that would regulate how tech giants operate within the country, serving to rein in how companies collect, aggregate, store and process Indian user data, Bloomberg reports.
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Lawmakers in Vietnam recently passed a cybersecurity law mandating new requirements for service providers that has some raising concern the law will impact economic growth and restrict freedom of expression, ABC News reports.
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CANADA
As more comes out on their data collection practices, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Brian Beamish seeks legislative changes to give his office authority over political parties, The Canadian Press reports.
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The University of British Columbia has been ordered to pay $167,000 to a novelist for violating his privacy rights, The Canadian Press reports.
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EUROPE
The European Parliament announced additional hearings to continue its assessment of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data-sharing discovery. Organized by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the hearings are scheduled for June 25 and July 2 and will include representatives from Facebook.
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The European Union agreed to security upgrades that will require member states to share information concerning suspected extremists and biometric data in an effort to bolster the EU’s Schengen Information System, Reuters reports.
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The European Commission announced who has been appointed to serve on its High Level Group on Artificial Intelligence, TechCrunch reports. The group will work to discuss crafting policy around artificial intelligence and consists of 52 professionals from tech companies, advocacy groups and other areas, including Google, IBM, SAP and Access Now.
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The European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs is calling for the European Commission to suspend the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement.
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The European Parliament agreed to draft regulations that would establish EU-wide standards for drone manufacturers and operators, The Irish Times reports.
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Lawmakers in the European Parliament have backed a resolution that would put more money into cybersecurity units and ban products found to be “malicious,” including Russian firm Kaspersky Lab, EURACTIV reports.
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Bird & Bird reports the Danish Parliament passed the Danish Data Protection Act, replacing the Danish Personal Data Processing Act.
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The Swiss National Council seeks to revise the Swiss Data Protection Act but will likely need to take care of another rule first, Telecompaper reports.
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The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office Head of Technology Policy Nigel Houlden said his agency is looking into figuring out self-certification for the EU General Data Protection Regulation, BankInfoSecurity reports.
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In a recently released technical note, the U.K. government outlines the benefits of establishing a new data protection agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom.
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The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office fined Yahoo U.K. Services Limited 250,000 GBP following its parent company’s 2014 data breach affecting 500 million users.
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The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office has fined the Gloucestershire Police 80,000 GBP for sending a bulk email that identified victims of non-recent child abuse.
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The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office fined the British and Foreign Bible Society 100,000 GBP for a 2016 cyberattack that left their computer network compromised.
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