Last week the European Parliament’s civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee narrowly voted to support a resolution declaring the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield inadequate. Israel’s Parliament passed data security regulations setting forth detailed requirements for data controllers and processors in both public and private sectors. In the U.S., the Senate voted 50-48 to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband privacy rules; Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have reintroduced two transportation privacy bills; FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says the agency will vote on a proposal to empower phone companies to block robocalls; and California, Illinois and Michigan are considering privacy legislation.
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MLA Scott Cyr last week introduced Bill 202, the Protecting Victims of Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images Act, to the Alberta legislature, reports the Cold Lake Sun.
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Data Protection Commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein Marit Hansen is calling for improvements to Germany’s draft law on the amendment and adaptation of the Federal Data Protection Act, reports Lexology.
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People Management report on how employees’ rights could change once the U.K. triggers Article 50 signaling the start of its withdrawal from the EU.
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The New York Times writes about the trend toward U.S. state legislatures enacting privacy laws in the context of the federal government rolling back online regulations.
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A package of bills in Florida being called “The Grieving Families Act” and allowing the state to issue birth certificates to parents who lose a child at less than twenty weeks’ gestation, has raised privacy concerns.
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A Michigan House committee has passed a resolution that would add electronic data and communications to the list of things protected from unreasonable search and seizure in the state’s Constitution, reports The Tenther.
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ICYMI
Members of the European Parliament’s civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee (LIBE) narrowly voted to support a resolution declaring Privacy Shield to be inadequate. IAPP EU Correspondent Jennifer Baker has the details in this piece for The Privacy Advisor.
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IAPP VP of Research Omer Tene for Privacy Tracker about Israel’s new Privacy Protection Regulations (Data Security), 5777-2017, which gives expanded powers to the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority and includes requirements for breach notification; data minimization; an information security officer; and privacy training, among others.
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Introduced March 9 to Argentina's House of Representatives, a new bill proposing data localization for certain state-held data aims to "protect digital information produced, generated or kept by the federal state, in order to defend Argentina’s data sovereignty," writes Diego Fernandez for Privacy Tracker.
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US
Reuters reports the U.S. Senate voted 50-48 Thursday to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband privacy rules
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Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have reintroduced the Security and Privacy in Your Car Act and the Cybersecurity Standards for Aircraft to Improve Resilience Act, The Hill reports.
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai wrote in a piece for The Hill that his agency will be voting on a proposal to empower phone companies to block “robocalls.”
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California senators are considering a bill that would require law enforcement agencies across the state to disclose the surveillance tools in their possession, including facial recognition technology and eye scanners, The Desert Sun reports.
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The Illinois State Senate is considering three privacy-related bills concerning citizens’ right to know about the data collected about them, unauthorized device microphone recordings protection, and the prohibition of unwanted geolocation services, ConsumerAffairs reports.
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Some analysts predict that U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang's rejection of Google's legal argument that the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act did not apply to scanned photographs could be precedent setting, Cook County Record reports.
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CANADA
In a dispatch from DLA Piper, Kelly Friedman reports on a recent meeting with senior representatives of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and privacy practitioners to discuss the agency's key priorities.
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EUROPE
The U.K. House of Lords Select Committee on Communications published a report offering recommendations to both the government and ISPs to better protect the online safety of children, Computer Weekly reports.
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