Global News Roundup — October 23–30, 2017

In Europe, the Article 29 Working Party has released final guidelines on the application and setting of administrative fines under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and the European Parliament voted to move forward with the draft of the ePrivacy Regulation. India’s Chief Justice announced a five-judge Constitution Bench will hear petitions against the Aadhaar program. In Canada, Saskatchewan’s government plans to make changes to its Privacy Act, and federal Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien spoke about Canada’s Anti-Spam Law. In the U.S., a Senate Intelligence Committee panel approved a bill to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and a bipartisan proposal aims to let the government track the progress of students in higher education. This and lots more in this week’s Privacy Tracker weekly legislative roundup.

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India’s chief justice announced that a five-judge Constitution Bench will be set up hear petitions against the validity of Aadhaar program, The Hindu reports.
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Data Quality Campaign has published its Education Data Legislation Review, offering insight on trends in U.S. state and federal education data legislation.
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Attorneys general from Massachusetts and New York are encouraging the U.S. Congress to use its opportunity in creating federal data breach legislation to make it a floor, not a ceiling, The National Law Review reports.
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The Illinois House voted unanimously in support of a bill that would require credit reporting agencies to allow consumers to freeze and unfreeze their credit for free, the JournalStar reports.
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WPR reports that a bill proposed in the Wisconsin legislature would require law enforcement to notify schools within 24 hours when a student commits a felony or violent misdemeanor or has been taken into custody under suspicion of such.
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ICYMI

This Privacy Tracker In this installment of the Privacy Tracker GDPR matchup series, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Information Security Officer Katy Liu compares two major U.S. federal financial privacy laws and the recent New York Cybersecurity Regulation with the GDPR.
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Eric Langland, in this Privacy Tracker post, offers a survey of the data security requirements handed down in settlements between U.S. state attorneys general in multistate data breaches, writing, "In the absence of uniform state or federal laws mandating data security measures, the settlements are the best indicator of what state authorities expect from a company vis-à-vis its data protection measures." 
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IAPP Content Director Sam Pfeifle writes for The Privacy Advisor about the EU Article 29 Working Party’s final guidelines on the application and setting of administrative fines under the General Data Protection Regulation.
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US

The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee panel approved a bill to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Reuters reports. The committee voted 12-3 to advance the legislation renewing Section 702 until Dec. 31, 2025.
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 Senate tie to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s rules prohibiting banks from using mandatory pre-arbitration agreements and empowering consumers to file class-action lawsuits, USA Today reports.
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A proposal to let the government track the progress of students in higher education, known as student-unit record-keeping, has long been a debate of both the political right and the left, but a new bipartisan bill aims to settle the issue, The Atlantic reports.
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A proposed deal would require U.S. technology companies to hand over communications data to U.K. intelligence agencies in their fight against terrorism and other crimes, the Financial Times reports.
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The Federal Trade Commission is providing further guidance on how the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule applies to the collection of audio voice recordings for minors under 13 with the release of a new policy enforcement statement.
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CANADA

Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien spoke in front of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, discussing his opinion of the review of Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation and offering several legislative changes to be considered.
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The Saskatchewan government plans to make changes to its Privacy Act in order to allow individuals to sue for compensation if they have had intimate images shared of them without consent, The Globe and Mail reports.
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The Edmonton public school trustees have approved a motion created to protect the privacy of students joining gay-straight alliances, the Edmonton Journal reports.
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EUROPE

In a relatively close vote, the full plenary of the European Parliament voted today in Strasbourg to move forward with the draft of the ePrivacy Regulation and enter into negotiations with the EU Council and EU Commission on a final text of the legislation. Check out the full report from Rapporteur MEP Marju Lauristin, which includes side-by-side comparisons of the original Commission draft and the current Parliament draft.
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