In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, learn about draft guidelines on cross-border transfers pursuant to China’s new Cybersecurity Law. Also, Jamaica’s Parliament is expected to take up the Data Protection Act by the end of the month. The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee held a hearing on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and its efficacy, and the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee held counter-terrorism hearing. Plus, Canada’s government has frozen a portion of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, and the Supreme Court of the United States has said it will hear a cellphone privacy case. 

LATEST NEWS

Hunton & Williams’ Privacy & Information Security Law Blog reports on the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee of China’s draft guidelines on cross-border transfers pursuant to the new Cybersecurity Law.
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Jamaica’s Minister of Science, Energy and Technology has said the country’s Parliament will begin discussions on the Data Protection Act by the end of the month, Jamaica Observer reports.
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Illinois Rep. Arthur Turner, D-Chicago, has proposed a bill that would require some businesses to retain data on with whom they have shared customer data, Illinois News Network reports.
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Nevada’s governor has signed a bill creating the Office of Cyber Defense Coordination, Government Technology reports.
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The Rhode Island legislature is considering its own version of a broadband privacy bill, The Associated Press reports.
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ICYMI

In this installment of the Privacy Tracker GDPR matchup series, Miguel Recio, LLM in Data Protection, Transparency and Access to Public Information, compares key provisions of the Federal Data Protection Law Held by Private Parties and its Regulations with the EU’s GDPR.
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The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee purportedly held a hearing on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and its efficacy, but 702 itself was seldom the focus of witness interrogations at the hearing. Luckily, Privacy Advisor Editor Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, was on hand and has the relevant privacy details. 
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Jennifer Baker details European Parliament’s civil liberties committee counter-terrorism hearing in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor. 
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IAPP Board Member Rocco Panetta reports for on the Italian Data Protection Authority, the Garante, 2016 Annual Activity Report.
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US

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced a new bill to make "revenge porn," or nonconsensual pornography, a crime, The Hill reports.
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The Hill reports Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., has asked Democrats to co-sponsor her recently proposed internet privacy bill. 
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The Supreme Court of the United States will settle a major location privacy case in its upcoming term, Reuters reports. Justices have agreed to hear a criminal appeal involving a series of armed robberies in which police used historical cellphone location data to convict a suspect.
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ASIA-PACIFIC

RSA Chief Cyber Security Adviser Leonard Kleinman said ransomware attacks will be classified as data breaches when Australia's Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017 goes into effect, iTWire reports. 
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The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is asking for feedback on a draft of a resource outlining what companies need to do to notify individuals about an eligible data breach. The OAIC welcomes feedback until July 14.
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CANADA

The Globe and Mail reports the federal government has frozen a portion of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation after receiving feedback from the business community.
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EUROPE

Officials in the EU are considering proposals that would allow law enforcement to directly access user data stored by U.S. tech companies in the EU, ZDNet reports.
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is calling for internet regulations designed to eliminate online "safe spaces" for extremists following a terror attack in London over the weekend, The Verge reports.
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LATIN AMERICA

JD Supra reports on two major changes to Argentina’s data protection laws: an overhaul to align them with the General Data Protection Regulation and the Localization Bill.
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