In this week’s Privacy Tracker weekly roundup, read about moves to implement the EU General Data Protection Regulation in Iceland, Latvia and Norway. In Jamaica, the Parliament is considering a new data protection bill meaning new requirements for businesses. Australia’s government has introduced a new bill giving consumers increased access to and portability for their data in certain sectors. In the U.S., five bills in Congress aim to address the soon-to-be-expired Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's Section 702, net neutrality is on the Federal Communications Commission’s chopping block and a bill on sharing veteran data with prescription drug monitoring programs is headed to the president’s desk for signature. 

LATEST NEWS

Under a new bill introduced by the Australian government, consumers will have open access to transaction and usage data in certain sectors and would enable them to transfer the information to a third party, reports ZDNet.
More

Iceland has announced a draft bill that will amend its data protection law to implement the EU General Data Protection Regulation, reports Payments Compliance.
More

ADVERTISEMENT

Radarfirst- Looking for clarity and confidence in every decision? You found it.

Lexology reports on a comprehensive data protection bill proposed in Jamaica’s Parliament. The bill outlines eight data protection standards and will mean new requirements for businesses that process data.
More

Lexology offers an overview of Latvia’s draft Personal Data Processing Law, which aims to implement the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
More

Norway’s data protection authority has begun creating a national data protection officer registry for DPOs appointed under the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
More

A U.K. draft drone bill to be introduced in the spring would give police more powers to control drone use and require some owners to register with a database, reports the BBC.
More

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara has proposed to the U.K. House of Lords that the information commissioner create a code of ethics within six months of the passing of the Data Protection Act, reports Privacy Laws & Business.
More

Healthcare IT News reports that U.S. Reps. Dave Trott, D-Michigan, and Susan Brooks, R-Indiana, have introduced the Internet of Medical Things Resilience Partnership Act, requiring the FDA to establish a working group to recommend security guidelines for medical devices.
More

The Ripon Advance News Service reports that the VA Prescription Data Accountability Act of 2017 will go to U.S. President Donald Trump to be signed into law. The measure clarifies existing law on sharing VA data with prescription drug monitoring programs.
More

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has released guidance on voice recordings under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, reports The National Law Review.
More

A California real estate developer is circulating a ballot initiative to change the state’s law by giving consumers more information about how their data is accessed and used, and giving them the right to opt-out of use and sharing. The measure would also eliminate the harm requirement for lawsuits against organizations that violate consumer opt-outs, reports the Los Angeles Times.
More

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has signed into law a bill establishing a home care-worker registry, requiring most home care givers working for state-contracted agencies to register with the database, reports MassLive.com.
More

A bill in the Ohio legislature would create exceptions to public records laws for recordings from police body cameras, reports WKSU.
More

ICYMI

In this Privacy Tracker post, Timothy Banks, CIPP/C, CIPM, writes about the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission's response to CompuFinder after it challenged the CRTC’s decision that it violated Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation.
More

Anna Kobylańska of Kobylańska & Lewoszewski Kancelaria Prawna sp.j. writes for Privacy Tracker about a proposed law in Poland specifying the rules of employee data processing in line with allowances under Article 88 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
More

GLOBAL

Officials from the European Commission and South Korea issued a joint statement Monday announcing efforts "to further strengthen cooperations" between the two regions around data flows and data protection.
More

US

With the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's Section 702 set to expire Dec. 31, Congress has introduced five proposals for how to modify the program but remain divided on how best to move forward with reauthorization, CBS News reports.
More

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced Tuesday that the agency will vote on Dec. 14 on whether to roll back Obama-era rules that require internet service providers to offer open access to their networks, TechCrunch reports. 
More

CANADA

Newfoundland and Labrador Information and Privacy Commissioner Donovan Molloy voiced his concerns regarding a new bill the Liberal government hopes to pass in 2018, CBC News reports.
More

EUROPE

Privacy concerns surrounding the audio recording capabilities of children’s smartwatches has motivated the German telecommunications regulator, the Federal Network Agency, to ban the sale of the devices in the country, the Guardian reports, and to recommend parents destroy existing devices.
More