Global News Roundup — March 27 - April 3, 2017

In this week’s Privacy Tracker weekly roundup, read about a push by India’s congressional leader to get a new privacy law on the books due to privacy concerns over Aadhaar. The U.K. prime minister has officially begun the process of Brexit and the government has released proposals to convert EU law to British law. South Africa is in the process of setting up its first-ever data protection authority. In the U.S., Congress has passed a repeal of the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband privacy rules, and it’s expected that the president will sign it. Meanwhile, lawmakers across the country are introducing protections at the state level.

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India’s congressional leader Deepender Singh Hooda is urging the government to create a new data privacy law in light of the Aadhaar system, reports Factor Daily.
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Connecticut’s judiciary committee has passed a drone bill requiring police to get a warrant to use drone surveillance in most cases, and now includes an amendment to allow police to equip drones with weapons, reports Raw Story.
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Minnesota Sen. Ron Latz, D-St. Louis Park, introduced an amendment to the state’s economic development budget bill that would prohibit ISPs from collecting consumers’ personal information without consent, reports RT.
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Montana’s governor has declined to sign a bill requiring police get court approval before obtaining private communications from providers of digital services until stronger language is included ensuring police demonstrate probable cause, reports The New Tribune.
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New Hampshire lawmakers are considering a bill that would shield a victims’ sexual history throughout the appeals process, reports WMUR.
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North Dakota’s governor signed into law a bill that makes private the identifying records of applicants to public jobs in the state until finalists are designated, reports The Bismark Tribune.
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The North Dakota Senate unanimously passed a bill directing the state’s Department of Transportation to study data sharing in autonomous vehicles, reports Body Shop Business.
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ICYMI

Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, is tracking the fallout of Congress' largely partisan vote to repeal the Federal Communications Commission's broadband privacy rules and reports on the latest in this post for Privacy Perspectives. 
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The Polish Ministry on Digital Affairs has published a new draft personal data protection act that will accompany the entry of the General Data Protection Regulation in Poland, Dariusz Czuchaj writes about the draft for Privacy Tracker.
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South Africa's first data protection authority is in the process of setting up shop, but local legal professionals are skeptical about how well-resourced it will be, David Meyer reports for The Privacy Advisor.
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US

New York lawmakers have begun considering a Right to be Forgotten Act, but some attorneys predict the bill doesn't consider First Amendment rights significantly enough to get passed, Law360 reports
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The Illinois House Cybersecurity, Data Analytics & IT Committee voted to advance he Geolocation Privacy Protection Act and the Right to Know Act, MediaPost reports.
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The Maine State Legislature’s Transportation Committee has voted in favor of a bill that would repeal an anti-REAL ID law from 2007, leaving an opt-out provision for those still objecting the measure, writes the Bangor Daily News' Michael Shepard in a State & Capitol blog post.
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The Federal Trade Commission released its 2016 Annual Highlights, touting the agency’s efforts to protect consumers.
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ASIA PACIFIC

A provision in a September 2016-released supplement to China's Criminal Procedure Law could authorize Chinese law enforcement to access and remotely "inspect" data from anywhere in the world, according to a Lawfare blog post.
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CANADA

Federal Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien says he approves of a new drug strategy bill, known as Bill C-37, iPolitics reports.
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Manitoba is looking for public input into the Personal Health Information Act and the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the Winnipeg Free Press reports. 
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CBC News looks into the ways internet service providers can share personal information of Canadian citizens with third parties as ISPs are only allowed to do so if a citizen has given consent.
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EUROPE

A day after U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50, The Wall Street Journal reports the U.K. government has released proposals to help "convert swaths of European Union laws and regulations into U.K. law, a plan the government says will pave the way for a smooth transition as Britain leaves the bloc."
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A white paper published by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy outlines a plan to have a new regulator to monitor digital markets, Out-Law.com reports.
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The French Data Protection Authority, the CNIL, has published its Annual Activity Report for 2016, as well as its 2017 annual inspection program, Hunton and Williams' Privacy & Information Security Law Blog reports
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