Global News Roundup — November 13-20, 2017

In response to public comments, the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information and the Cyber Security Agency announced they will clarify the scope of the new Cybersecurity Bill prior to introducing it. Australia’s NSW Labor party has introduced a bill requiring government agencies to report breaches, and the government published a draft of a national approach to how digital identity is managed. In the U.S., Senators have introduced Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2017 and a bill restricting the government’s data-gathering authority under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Read about these developments and more in this week’s Privacy Tracker weekly legislative roundup. 

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Computerworld reports, the New South Wales Labor party has introduced the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Amendment (Notification of Serious Violations of Privacy by Public Sector Agencies) Bill, which would require government agencies to report data breaches. 
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Lexology offers an overview of Luxembourg’s bill to implement the EU General Data Protection Regulation into the nations legal framework.
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U.S. Sens. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Friday introduced a bill to renew and reform government access to data collected by the National Security Agency under the authority formerly granted by Section 702, reports The Washington Post.
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Wisconsin’s Marsy’s Law has passed both the state Senate and Assembly, meaning the state’s constitution is closer to including protections for victims of crime that are currently written into state law, reports The Journal Times.
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ICYMI

In this installment of the Privacy Tracker GDPR matchup series, Nicola Hermansson, CIPP/E, CIPT, EY NZ data privacy leader, and William Fussey, EY law privacy solicitor, compare key provisions of the New Zealand Privacy Act 1993 with the GDPR.
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Marcin Lewoszewski writes in this Privacy Tracker post about the recently published draft law to implement the NIS directive to the Polish legal framework.
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US

U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., along with several other Democratic co-sponsors, have introduced the Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2017.
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Reuters reports the Trump administration will publicly release its rules for determining whether to disclose cybersecurity flaws or conceal them.
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ASIA PACIFIC

The Australian government revealed the public draft of the Trusted Digital Identity Framework, which includes 14 draft documents designed to produce a national approach to how digital identity is managed, ZDNet reports.
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Responding to concerns received during a consultation period, Singapore’s Ministry of Communications and Information and the Cyber Security Agency said they will clarify the scope of the new Cybersecurity Bill as well as its definition of critical information infrastructure operators prior to introducing it, Out-Law.com reports.
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CANADA

Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Ron Kruzeniski voiced his support, The Regina Leader-Post reports, for a bill proposed by the province that will allow government organizations to enter into data-matching agreements in order to better serve those who receive services from multiple ministries.
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EUROPE

A senior official from the European Commission said late last week that the executive body wants an EU-U.S. agreement that would facilitate a protocol allowing law enforcement to access user data collected from technology companies in other legal jurisdictions, EURACTIV reports.
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