In the U.S., states continue to push privacy legislation on their own, including Arizona’s House passing a revised revenge porn bill; proposed location privacy bills in California and Texas, and Colorado and Utah looking at student privacy. In Qatar, a draft bill would protect consumers’ electronic data and includes a provision prohibiting the sending of electronic marketing communications without consent, and Paraguay has delayed discussion of mandatory data retention for telecoms. Also, don’t miss an analysis of U.S. President Barack Obama’s federal breach notification bill and a roundup of the proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights in this Privacy Tracker weekly roundup.
LATEST NEWS
The State Cabinet of Qatar has approved a draft law that would, among other things, ban the sending of electronic communications for marketing purposed without consent, reports The Peninsula.
The Paraguayan House has postponed discussion of a mandatory data retention proposal that would require Paraguayan telecom providers to store highly personal information about their customers’ Internet use for one year for possible law enforcement access, reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) have proposed the Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act to protect individuals’ privacy in light of the expanded use of drones.
The Arizona House approved a revised version of its "revenge porn" bill, but civil liberties advocates who sued to block the law said the changes don't allay their concerns about the legislation, reports Arizona Daily Star.
The Arkansas House has passed a bill that would require employees of organizations that serve youth to “friend” their employers, reports The Huffington Post.
California Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced SB 576 that would require vendors to explain to consumers their location information practices upon installing a new app, reports THE Journal.
The Colorado Senate Education Committee unanimously approved a bill preventing the sharing or selling of personally identifiably student data by software, database and app companies, but added an amendment that may complicate the disclosure requirements, reports Chalkbeat.
The Colorado House Judiciary Committee has delayed a vote on a drone bill over concerns of how to prevent penalizing individuals for everyday photography, the Associated Press reports.
HealthIT Security reports that Missouri Rep. Diane Franklin (R-District 123) has introduced a bill that would require childcare centers to notify parents upon request of children in their care who haven’t been vaccinated.
New York Assemblyman Ed Braunstein (D-Queens) has proposed legislation that would make it a felony to film patients receiving medical treatment without prior consent, reports ProPublica.
Rhode Island is considering restricting government use of drones, reports The Tenther.
Texas Sen. Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls) filed a bill to protect individuals’ location information from warrantless search and seizure, reports Mineral Wells Index.
A Utah House committee has approved a bill to restrict the collection and retention of student data by Utah schools, reports The Salt Lake Tribune.
ICYMI
IAPP Westin Fellow Patricia Bailin, CIPP/US, CIPT, looks at U.S. President Barack Obama's proposed national data breach notification standard against existing legislation.
U.S.
In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, rounds up the wide spectrum of reaction from all sides on the White House’s "discussion draft" of its Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.
Sens. Edward Markey (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Al Franken (D-MN) have reintroduced the Data Broker Accountability and Transparency Act, which would allow consumers "to order the companies to stop using, sharing or selling data about them for marketing purposes," The Hill reports.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a three-judge panel has suggested the Federal Trade Commission should handle privacy cases in its own administrative court rather than in federal court.
The Hill reports on last week’s oral arguments in Wyndham Worldwide Corporation's battle against the Federal Trade Commission.
Cheryl Howard and Dana Post write for The Privacy Advisor about Clapper v. Amnesty International's impact on the harm threshold.
CANADA
The Globe and Mail reports Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien says Bill C-51 "in its current form, would fail to provide Canadians with … legislation that protects both their safety and their privacy.”
nNovation Partner Shaun Brown discusses the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announcement of its first Notice of Violation under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, including a $1.1 million penalty.
EU
Citing "leaked documents," IT World reports civil liberties groups are warning that the EU's proposed data protection reform is "badly broken.”
ASIA PACIFIC
A parliamentary body in China has read a second draft of a proposed "far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys and install security 'backdoors,' a potential escalation of what some firms view as the increasingly onerous terms of doing business in the world's second-largest economy," Re/code reports.