In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, read about potential new breach reporting requirements and enforcement in The Netherlands as the Senate has approved the proposal. Meanwhile, Germany’s new data retention bill has been introduced, and debates over the one-stop-shop mechanism continue. In Australia, there are efforts toward creating a database of passport and license photos to enable police to share data and identify terrorists, and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has released a new privacy management framework. In the U.S., varied state laws continue to be a challenge for businesses; the Federal Communications Commission chair has a plan for addressing the lack of clarity in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and the Department of Justice has issued new drone guidelines.

LATEST NEWS

Italy’s Data Protection Authority, the Garante, has issued a data protection handbook for employersto use as a tool in navigating privacy regulations that are applicable to the employment relationship, JDSupra reports.

GLOBAL

U.S.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh has granted class-action status to nonsubscribers of Yahoo in a lawsuit filed on behalf of millions of Internet users that alleges wiretapping violations in the company's scanning of email, BloombergBusiness reports.

Tim Sparapani writes for Forbes about the proposed Federal Trade Commission consent decree with Nomi Technologies, calling it "a cautionary tale for businesses everywhere wrestling with data innovation and privacy and security protection."

EU

In a blog post for Hogan Lovells' Chronicle of Data Protection,Partner Eduardo Ustaran, CIPP/E, examines the much-discussed one-stop-shop proposal.

PCWorld reports a draft German data retention law has been released, establishing new rules for telecommunications and Internet providers.

In the context of French, Spanish, German and Dutch regulators’ investigations into Facebook’s practices, TheNew York Times reports on the increasingly complex questions surrounding regulation in the EU.

ASIA PACIFIC

Anna von Dietze, CIPP/E, CIPM, writes for The Privacy Advisor about the new Privacy Management Framework from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner intended to assist private- and public-sector organizations in meeting their privacy compliance obligations.