In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about Bulgaria's new Cyber Security Act which will regulate the country's National Cyber Security System, the national cybersecurity coordinator and response teams for cybersecurity incidents. In Australia, opposition to the government's proposed anti-encryption legislation continues to grow and the government announced changes to My Health Record that will increase the maximum penalties for improper use of the system’s data. In the U.S., San Francisco approved a ballot measure to require companies to secure users' personal information and disclose data collection practices in order to win government contracts, and in New Hampshire, voters approved a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to “live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information.”
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Bulgaria’s National Assembly adopted a new Cyber Security Act, which will regulate the National Cyber Security System, the national cybersecurity coordinator, and response for cybersecurity incidents, BulgarianMilitary.com reports.
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Bloomberg Law reports that San Francisco voters approved a ballot measure, requiring companies to secure users’ personal information and disclose their data collection practices in order to win government contracts.
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ICYMI
Diego Fernandez writes for Privacy Tracker on Argentina's Agency of Access to Public Information, which has issued Regulation 132/2018 aimed at establishing a new mechanism for the registration of data controllers and both private and public databases.
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French data protection authority, the CNIL, released guidance in English this week on blockchain and the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In this Privacy Tech piece, Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, reports on how organizations could use blockchain in a GDPR-compliant way.
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Intel released a draft bill for a U.S. federal privacy law. The IAPP’s Ryan Chiavetta, CIPP/US, spoke with Intel Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer David Hoffman, CIPP/US, on the creation of the law, the importance of participatory democracy, and the prospects of a federal privacy rule going forward.
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US
Nearly 60 companies, including Facebook and Google, have signed on to a new “contract for the web,” internet standards designed by world wide web founder Tim Berners-Lee, the Financial Times reports.
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U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai wrote a letter to 13 telecommunication companies about their efforts to stop “robocalls,” Reuters reports.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a resource designed to help small businesses and nonprofits with cybersecurity issues.
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The New York Times reports the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear challenges to net neutrality rules.
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Voters in New Hampshire overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to “live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information,” Ballotpedia reports.
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In New Jersey, the state’s Division of Consumer Affairs has fined and permanently banned health care transcription vendor ATA Consulting, Health Data Management reports.
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Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Privacy & Information Security Law Blog reports on the legal safe harbor within Ohio’s recently enacted data breach law for certain incidents.
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EUROPE
Neighbors of London’s Tate Modern art gallery will begin a court hearing of their 2017 lawsuit that alleged they endured a “relentless” invasion of privacy since the gallery’s 211-foot-tall wing was opened in 2016, The New York Times reports.
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The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office has issued an update to its long-running investigation into the use of data analytics in political campaigns and a report to the U.K. Parliament.
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The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office has fined the Brexit campaign group Leave.EU and Eldon Insurance a combined 135,000 GBP for data law violations, the Guardian reports.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
In an op-ed for The Hill, Satyajeet Marar reports on the growing alliance among tech companies, startups and digital consumer rights groups, all opposing the Australian government’s proposed anti-data encryption law.
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In response to a Senate inquiry into the national electronic health record system, the Australian government announced changes to My Health Record that will increase the maximum penalties for improper use of the system’s data, ZDNet reports.
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Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Stephen Kai-yi Wong announced his agency plans to conduct a formal investigation into the Cathay Pacific data breach, the South China Morning Post reports.
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Taiwan passed amendments to existing cryptocurrency regulations, empowering the Financial Supervisory Commission to demand cryptocurrency exchange operators implement changes that will crack down on anonymous transactions, BTC Manager reports.
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Vietnam plans to give tech companies one year to comply with its newly passed data law, Bloomberg reports.
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