In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, read about a new plan in Australia that would see state and territory leaders handing over citizens’ data to the federal government. There’s also a matchup between Australia’s Privacy Act and the EU General Data Protection Act. In India, the health ministry has proposed a law to protect the information of hospital patients. And in the U.S., the Supreme Court has decided to take on the Microsoft case involving government access to personal data held overseas; the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation unanimously voted out of committee the American Vision for Safer Transportation through Advancement of Revolutionary Technologies Act; and two members of the House have introduced the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, which would allow hacking victims to hack back hackers who hacked them. 

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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has proposed a plan to have state and territory leaders hand over driver’s license data to the federal government in an effort to toughen national security, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
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India’s health ministry has proposed a law to protect the information of hospital patients, including Aadharr details and health care information, livemint reports.
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Ireland’s Department of Justice has published proposals for a Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017, which would replace the country’s Data Retention Law, The Irish Times reports.
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Labour's Lord Stevenson of Balmacara has raised concerns that the draft U.K. Data Protection Bill’s age limit of 13 years for children to consent to the processing of their data is “almost certainly” illegal, Out-Law.com reports.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take on a case addressing government access to personal data held by Microsoft on overseas servers, USA Today reports.
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The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation unanimously voted out of committee the American Vision for Safer Transportation through Advancement of Revolutionary Technologies Act, which would establish a Data Access Advisory Committee for highly automated vehicles, Lexology reports.
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Two members of the U.S. House have introduced the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, which would allow hacking victims to hack back hackers who hacked them.
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Kentucky state Sen. Morgan McGarvey announced he will pre-file a bill amending current state breach law to require companies responsible for a data breach to provide free credit freezes, three free credit reports each year and five years of credit monitoring for those affected, WTVQ reports.
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ICYMI

In this installment of the GDPR matchup series, elevenM’s Tim de Sousa compares Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 with the GDPR. Following the Australian Privacy Principles, de Sousa offers a one-on-one comparison with articles from the GDPR.
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In this Privacy Tracker post, Carey's Paulina Silva and Lucia Bobadilla offer an analysis of the consolidated bill that aims to update Chile’s data protection law. 
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US

Chief Judge Robert Morin of the District of Columbia Superior Court ruled the U.S. Department of Justice overstepped in its request for web hosting company DreamHost to turn over 1.3 million IP addresses related to an anti-Trump website, Ars Technica reports.
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U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Kirstjen Nielsen to be secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, filling the vacancy left by former Secretary John Kelly when he joined the Trump administration as White House chief of staff, USA Today reports.
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EUROPE

The Article 29 Working Party has released details of its October plenary meetings, which examined the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
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