In this week’s Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, discussions on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield are set to ramp up. Google is being accused of privacy violations with lawsuits in France and the U.S. A Massachusetts city joined San Francisco in banning government facial-recognition surveillance. Rwanda approved new cybersecurity and data protection measures in the African Union Convention. Concerns over the potential weakness of the California Consumer Privacy Act are rising. And the IAPP’s Privacy Law Specialist certification is now a recognized accreditation by Minnesota’s Board of Legal Certification.
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Gov. Rick Desantis, R-Fla., signed 200 bills into law, including one that removes from public records the addresses of civilians who work in law enforcement
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The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that boards and commissions are not required by law to close meetings to discuss personnel matters.
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A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois alleges that a partnership between the University of Chicago Medical Center and Google brought about unlawful sharing of thousands of patient records between the two entities.
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City Council in Somerville, Massachusetts, passed an ordinance to ban government use of facial-recognition technology. Somerville is the second U.S. city to ban the software.
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In Ohio, a Lorain Schools administrator potentially violated student privacy under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, according to a legal opinion.
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Pennsylvania’s Clean Slate Act, which was passed last year, came into force and allows the state to seal certain criminal records.
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Cabinet in Rwanda approved the ratification of the African Union Convention on cybersecurity and personal data protection, which was adopted in 2014.
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South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Beatty overturned a rule preventing police in Greenville and Pickens counties from distributing body camera video footage.
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ICYMI
Fábio Lara Aspis and Luis Fernando Prado Chaves, CIPP/E, wrote for The Privacy Advisor on what privacy professionals need to do to comply with the new rules that have been laid out in Brazil’s privacy legislation.
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Cynthia Rich and Rob Famigletti write for Privacy Perspectives about how the proposal from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to impose consent rules on cross-border transfers runs counter to the growing consensus that obtaining the individuals' consent does little to enhance privacy protections for individuals.
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For The Privacy Advisor, Jennifer Baker provides the latest details on the current state of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield as the Court of Justice of the European Union is set to hear two cases that will challenge the agreement’s legality.
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IAPP Staff Writer Joe Duball supplied details of Minnesota’s decision to accredit the IAPP’s Privacy Law Specialist certification in this post for The Privacy Advisor.
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During a hearing at the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, lawmakers aimed to determine what kind of government intervention, if any, is necessary in an age of supercomputing where companies are competing for “optimal engagement” from users, often achieved through user manipulation. IAPP Editor Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, reported from the hearing for The Privacy Advisor.
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AFRICA
Lawmakers in Egypt have passed the country’s first data protection law, which will protect the information of Egyptian citizens and European Union citizens who reside in the country.
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A lawsuit was filed against Kenya-based Safaricom for allegedly violating customers' data privacy following a data breach involving 11.5 million customers.
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CANADA
Saskatchewan’s information and privacy commissioner is proposing cannabis dispensaries be subject to the Health Information Protection Act.
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EUROPE
French consumer group UFC Que Choisir has filed a class-action lawsuit against Google for alleged violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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In Germany, the CDU/CSU and the Social Democrats in Germany reached a deal on a new bill that would bring federal laws in line with the EU GDPR, as well as alter the Federal German Privacy Act.
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LATIN AMERICA
A Brazilian federal appeals court ruled a fine against Facebook for withholding WhatsApp messages from a drug-trafficking investigation should be reduced from $528 million to $6 million.
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US
There are growing worries from state lawmakers and privacy advocates about the strength of the California Consumer Privacy Act as a Sept. 13 deadline for final wording of the law looms.
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The Illinois Legislature has passed the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act, which prohibits state employers from using use AI to evaluate job interview videos under the law without working through consent obligations and other details.
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The Brookings Institution reported on the differences between the New York Privacy Act and the California Consumer Privacy Act and why the two bills will impact the chances of a federal U.S. privacy law.
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The Washington Post reports on the first year of Vermont's data broker law, and the difficulties of effectively regulating it, including a lack of transparency.
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The Association of National Advertisers has asked the Federal Trade Commission to support a federal U.S. privacy law.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., plan to introduce a bill to require tech companies to disclose the value of user data.
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Past IAPP Board of Directors Chairman Peter Lefkowitz, CIPP/US, explained why the U.S. needs a federal privacy law in a New York Times op-ed.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that two class-action suits involving federal workers can continue against the Office of Personnel Management over a 2015 data breach that affected 22 million people.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco, California, has denied Facebook's appeal to dismiss a lawsuit regarding its data breach involving more than 29 million users.
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