Lawmakers around the U.S. are moving to restrict cellphone surveillance, notably in Vermont where a bill awaiting the governor’s signature would require a warrant to use stingrays and obtain cellphone communications from providers. Also in the U.S., Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will debut a bill this week that would undo a recent Supreme Court decision allowing judges to issue hacking warrants outside their respective jurisdictions and a FISA Amendments Act provision scheduled to expire next year is getting buzz on Capitol Hill. In Canada, federal Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has called for an overhaul of the Privacy Act. The French government is debating a bill that includes data localization. The U.K. is preparing for the Investigatory Powers Act. Read about all this and more in this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup.

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The Vermont legislature has passed a bill that would significantly restrict police surveillance abilities. It would require police to get a warrant to use stingray devices to track phones and restrict police drone use, among other things, reports Tenth Amendment Center. The bill awaits the governor’s signature.

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Canadian Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien announced a new sweeping, public consultation on the nature of consent and to call for an update to the “archaic” Privacy Act that covers the handling of citizen data at the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium, reports Publications Director Sam Pfeifle in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor.

In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, Denis Kelleher discusses a case headed to Europe’s top court in which the Irish data protection commissioner refused a man access to his accounting exam data. But the Irish data protection commissioner said he couldn't call the data his own "personal data."

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BuzzFeed reports that Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act is set to expire next year sparking debate on Capitol Hill. The provision allows the government to obtain electronic communications of foreigners located outside of the country.

A Wisconsin state appeals court has ruled that the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act doesn’t require law enforcement agencies looking to comply with open records laws to redact names from accident reports, FierceGovernmentIT reports.

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