In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about the newly adopted EU Cybersecurity Act, establishing the first EU-wide cybersecurity certification scheme. In the U.S., senators introduced the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act, Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act, and a bill to update the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. In New Zealand, Privacy Commissioner John Edwards welcomed the Justice Select Committee’s report on the proposed Privacy Bill, which will replace the country’s Privacy Act passed in 1993.
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MEPs adopted the EU Cybersecurity Act, establishing the first EU-wide cybersecurity certification scheme to ensure that certified products, processes and services sold in EU countries meet cybersecurity standards, Modern Diplomacy reports.
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JDSupra reports on recent guidance from the U.S. Department of Education on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act regarding schools’ and school districts’ responsibilities under FERPA relating to disclosures of student information.
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In Montana, House Bill 457 would force internet providers to have explicit consent from customers before they use their personal browsing data, KPAX reports.
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In Nevada, a hearing in the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee discussed the details of SB229, a bill that seeks to ban an owner or operator of a hotel from divulging personal information about its guests “for any purpose relating to the enforcement of immigration laws,” The Nevada Independent reports.
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed HB 2449 amending a law barring schools from disclosing student directory information, Roanoke reports.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-N.M., laid out her vision for antitrust reform, new taxes, and a federal privacy bill in an interview with Recode Decode.
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ICYMI
In this article for Privacy Tracker, Marval O'Farrell & Mairal Senior Associate Mariano Peruzzotti, CIPP/E, looks at Argentina’s new resolution No. 34/2019 of the Argentine Agency of Access to Public Information, which added the U.K. and Northern Ireland in the white list of adequate jurisdictions for the transfer of personal data, regardless of the Brexit outcome.
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At a U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing Tuesday, lawmakers sought answers from witnesses on the ways companies are monetizing users' personal data and whether consumers should have more choice in the matter as Congress looks toward crafting a federal privacy law — at some point. Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, was at the hearing and has the details in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
In hearings, Australia’s Treasury dismissed concerns raised during a submission window over the country’s impending Consumer Data Right, ZDNet reports.
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New Zealand Privacy Commissioner John Edwards welcomed the Justice Select Committee’s report on the proposed Privacy Bill, which will replace the country’s Privacy Act passed in 1993, IT Brief reports.
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CANADA
Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton determined government employees did not violate any rules after it was discovered more than 800,000 emails had been deleted across several ministries, the Edmonton Journal reports.
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The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia has unveiled its PrivacyRight program, which aims to help small businesses and organizations in the province understand their obligations under the Personal Information Protection Act.
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Nova Scotia Information and Privacy Commissioner Catherine Tully has called for a delay to update the law governing the province’s credit unions and cited four issues she had with Bill 97 in a letter to Finance Minister Karen Casey, CBC News reports.
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EUROPE
Infosecurity Magazine reports on the IAPP Data Protection Intensive: U.K. conference in London this week, where privacy professionals and regulators gathered for a session titled “One Year Post GDPR: What Actions Have Been Taken?”
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Speaking in an SXSW interview, European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager warned against breaking up big tech and called it a “measure of last resort,” TechCrunch reports.
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The European Data Protection Board continued its discussions on several topics during its eighth plenary session.
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The Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, has published its fining policy under the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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The Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, announced cookie walls are not compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, TechCrunch reports.
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US
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to vote on a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking requiring the collection of more accurate location data, Ars Technica reports.
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The Augusta Free Press reports on the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act, which would require devices purchased by the U.S. government to meet minimum security requirements.
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The Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act was introduced to the U.S. Senate and would require companies to obtain explicit user consent before facial recognition data could be collected and shared, The Verge reports.
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Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill to address tech companies’ collection of teenagers’ data.
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Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, called for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to “pause” a plan for Customs and Border Protection to implement facial-recognition technology in the top 20 airports in the country by 2021, BuzzFeed News reports.
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The Brookings Institution offers a breakdown of different proposals for a federal U.S. privacy law.
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In an article for The Washington Post, Daniel Wilf-Townsend writes that as U.S. lawmakers consider a federal privacy law, it would be wise for them to manage the “crucial issue of forced-arbitration clauses in consumer contracts.”
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A bill protecting the identities of foster parents passed its first committee unanimously in the Florida House and is set to appear before the Oversight, Transparency & Public Management Subcommittee and Health and Human Services committees next, the Herald-Tribune reports.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., laid out a proposal to break up large tech companies at a rally in Queens, The New York Times reports.
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Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into Facebook’s data-sharing agreements with more than 150 tech companies, The New York Times reports.
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