In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, read about proposed changes to data protection laws released for public comment by both Uganda and China. Also, The Netherlands has determined its data retention law will remain in place despite a ruling striking down the EU Directive, and the Italian EU Presidency is recommending a new board made up of data protection authorities be the one to decide cross-border data disputes. In the U.S., the Senate put a stop to a bill that would’ve amended National Security Agency surveillance practices, but the White House has vowed to take up the cause again next year. And, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has announced a settlement with TRUSTe for deceptive practices.
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The Chinese National People’s Congress released its Draft Amendments IX to the Criminal Law, including amendments to provisions on personal information, for public comment, reports Lexology.
Telecompaper reports the Dutch data retention legislation will remain in place, despite an EU court ruling earlier this year that struck down the associated EU directive.
Three Ugandan agencies are consulting with stakeholders and accepting comments on the Draft Data Protection and Privacy Bill, reports PCTech Magazine.
JDSupra offers an overview of California’s “Online Eraser” Law, which goes into effect on the first of the year. And the attorney general published this list of all privacy legislation passed in the state this year.
San Francisco Chronicle reports a federal appeals court has barred California from enforcing a law that would require more than 70,000 registered sex offenders to disclose their Internet identities to police.
New Jersey Law Journal reports New Jersey’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear a constitutional challenge to the “roving surveillance” provision of the state's wiretapping statute.
U.S.
A bill designed to reform parts of the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records was blocked from going to a floor debate, mostly along a party-line filibuster, NationalJournal reports. However, the White House says it will pursue a new bill in 2015, The Guardian reports.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a $1.4 million verdict for a Walgreens customerwhose prescription information was provided to a third party. The attorney who argued the case is calling it "a national precedent," Indianapolis Business Journal reports.
A federal judge has ruled that no privacy rights were violated when a company deleted personal information from a fired worker's cell phone, Courthouse News Service reports.
The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with privacy seal provider TRUSTe on charges the company “deceive customers about its recertification program for company's privacy practices, as well as perpetuated its misrepresentation as a nonprofit entity."
Idaho AG Lawrence Wasden talks to Divonne Smoyer, CIPP/US, and Fred Lah, CIPP/US, CIPP/C, on the increased focus by state attorneys general on privacy enforcement and regulation and the changing landscape in data breach notification lawsin this report for The Privacy Advisor.
CANADA
A Calgary-based law firm is currently working on the first known personal injury case using data gleaned from a client's Fitbit, Forbes reports.
CBC News reports Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has warned senators "that the increased police powers proposed in the government's cyberbullying and Internet surveillance bill need to be matched with ways of tracking their use."
The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the appeal of a BC man who says his rights were violated when the RCMP handed over the results of wiretaps to U.S. authorities, CBC News reports.
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LATIN AMERICA
Data protection authorities from Mexico, Spain, Portugal and Chile, among others, met at the XII Ibero-American Data Protection Network in Mexico City. Officials created a statement promising to strengthen data protection, DataGuidance reports.