Global News Roundup — Oct. 15–22, 2018

In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about the latest opposition to Australia's proposed Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018. Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission issued Advisory Guidelines for National Registration Identification Card and numbers. In Austria, the data protection authority issued its first EU General Data Protection Regulation fine against a retail establishment with a surveillance camera capturing too much of the sidewalk. EU Justice Commissioner Věra Jourová and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross are among the more than 100 officials set to meet for the second annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement.

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Joseph Cannataci, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, said that Australia should drop its proposed Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018, Scoop reports.
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Regulation Asia reports the Financial Services Agency has issued its latest policy document aimed at improving cyber resilience in the financial sector as it prepares for the potential targeting of Japan’s financial infrastructure in the lead up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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New Jersey’s Senate Law and Public Safety Committee approved two pieces of legislation aimed at amending the invasion of privacy law and require the collection of a DNA sample for child pornography arrests, Insider NJ reports.
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ICYMI

In an article for Privacy Tracker, Jennifer Daskal, Peter Swire, CIPP/US, and Theodore Christakis write on the globalization of criminal evidence. 
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Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, reports on some of the key takeaways from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s first public workshop on developing a privacy framework in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor.
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Hou Fu Ang, CIPP/A, writes for Privacy Tracker and covers Singapore’s data protection authority, the Personal Data Protection Commission, Advisory Guidelines for National Registration Identification Card and numbers, which were recently revised following public consultation.
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US

A report released by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration outlines proposals to how passengers are screened before boarding and states that, among the changes, biometric technology will eventually replace passports and other forms of identifications, The New York Times reports.
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Speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to examine the app collection of children’s data and pushed for an expansion of COPPA protections.
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HealthITSecurity reports Aetna has reached settlements with several state attorneys general for disclosing the HIV statuses of 12,000 patients in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Anthem has agreed to pay $16 million to the HHS Office for Civil Rights to settle alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy and Security Rules related to its 2015 data breach.
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Lawfare reports the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board declassified the implementation report on Presidential Policy Directive 28: Signals Intelligence Activities following a Freedom of Information Act request filed by New York Times Reporter Charlie Savage.
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ASIA-PACIFIC

As part of an ongoing investigation, the Philippines’ National Privacy Commission instructed Facebook to individually notify the more than 700,000 Filipino users who were affected by the company’s latest data breach, Inquirer.net reports.
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The Australian Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee released a report on the My Health Records Amendment (Strengthening Privacy) Bill 2018, ZDNet reports.
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CANADA

Appearing before the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien discussed Bill C-58 and voiced concern for its current form.
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EUROPE

The Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer law firm blog picked up an Austrian paper's story on the first EU General Data Protection Regulation fine issued by Austria's data protection authority, against a retail establishment with a surveillance camera capturing too much of the sidewalk.
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The Council Of Europe announced Brazil and Gabon's Data Protection Commission have joined the Committee of Convention 108 as observers.
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In what is regarded as the first substantial test of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the Irish Data Protection Commission said approximately 3 million Europeans were affected by a Facebook security breach in September and it will investigate, CNBC reports.
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EU Justice Commissioner Věra Jourová and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross are among the more than 100 officials set to meet for the second annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement, Politico reports.
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