In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, read about a bill in Cyprus that would allow police to monitor electronic communications with a court order, the potential effects the Trans-Pacific Partnership will have on trans-border data flows in the Asia-Pacific region and a comparison of privacy redress in the U.S. and EU. Also, Poland’s data protection authority published guidance on data-transfer to the U.S. post-Safe Harbor and the Australian government has released a second draft of its bill that would require telcos to increase network protection and oversight of government access to data. In the U.S., Michigan’s House of Representatives is reviewing three bills aiming to protect student data.
LATEST NEWS
The Australian government has released a second exposure draft of the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment Bill, which would require telcos to “increase network protection and provide greater oversight to government agencies to intervene for the purpose of ‘protecting national security,’” reports ZDNet.
The Cyprus House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow police to monitor and collect electronic communications of suspects with a court order, reports Cyprus Mail.
Lothar Determann and Teresa Michaud wrote for Bloomberg BNA about privacy redress in the U.S. and the EU, “as evidenced by the many individual privacy lawsuits that are brought in the U.S. each year and the relative few lawsuits in Europe.”
The Michigan House is reviewing three bills that aim at protecting student privacy, SB 33, SB 510 and HB 4894, reports Detroit Free Press.
ICYMI
In this Privacy Tracker post, Spaczynski, Szczepaniak & Wspolnicy Law Firm's Joanna Tomaszewska writes about the Polish data protection authority’s guidance for companies transfering data between Poland and the U.S. after the demise of Safe Harbor.
U.S.
Reps. Katherine Clark (D-MA) and Patrick Meehan (R-PA) have introduced a bill that would give those who perpetrate an extreme form of cyberharrassment called swatting serious jail time, Motherboard reports.
ASIA PACIFIC
A report for The Diplomat analyzes how the Trans-Pacific Partnership will affect trans-border data flows in the Asia-Pacific region.