While Australia continues to grapple with the issue of data retention and debates over the right to be forgotten continue in the EU—and beyond—and as California continues to lead the U.S. in privacy protection, Japan has announced it will amend its guidelines on the implementation of its data protection law, and New Jersey is looking at laws to protect data from black box recorders in vehicles. Plus, in this Privacy Tracker weekly roundup, read about a precedent-setting case in Alberta, Canada, that determined the province's Health Information Act protects any information broadly connected to a patient's care, even if that information is about another person.

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ICYMI

In the final post of this two-part Privacy Tracker series on data protection in Singapore, Paul Lanois writes about the Personal Data Protection Commission's enforcement of the Do-Not-Call Registry and offers a glimpse at its ongoing investigations.

U.S.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) held a roundtable in a Palo Alto, CA, high school last week with some of the tech industry's most influential leaders in what he referred to as "one of the first times Congress has focused squarely on the economic impact of the overreach of government intelligence."

The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is preparing to launch OCR Phase II Audits, a permanent audit program for covered entities, an Atlantic Information Services release states.

CANADA

"In a precedent-setting decision, Alberta's Court of Queen's Bench has ruled the province's Health Information Act protects any information broadly connected to a patient's care, even if that information is about another person," Edmonton Journal reports.

EU

Aurélie Pols, in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, offers tips on how to turn the CNIL's cookie sweep initiative into an audit opportunity.

ASIA PACIFIC

The Australian government's plan to require data retention continues to make headlines.