In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, read about data protection rules for EU institutions, bodies and agencies approved by members of the European Parliament in an effort to align with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Nepal’s House of Representatives endorsed the Protection of Individual’s Right to Privacy, Thailand’s Cabinet approved the Digital Identification Bill, and Italy published a Legislative Decree, setting forth national implementation for the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In the U.S., the House Financial Services Committee passed the Consumer Information Notification Requirement Act, which will require financial institutions to alert consumers when their information is compromised in a data breach.
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Nepal’s House of Representatives endorsed a bill on Protection of Individual’s Right to Privacy, revising provisions that were feared to restrict the free press, The Kathmandu Post reports.
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In Thailand, the Digital Identification Bill was approved by the Cabinet and is expected to be passed by the National Legislative Assembly and take effect by the middle of next year, Thailand Portal reports.
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While the future of Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Bill 2015 remains undecided in Parliament, the Cabinet approved borrowing Shs400 billion to finance a CCTV expansion, AllAfrica reports.
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A class-action lawsuit has been filed against KeyMe Inc. for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, Cook County Record reports.
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ICYMI
In this Privacy Tracker post, Hind Chenaoui, CIPP/E, CIPM, offers a look at why Morocco’s alignment between the data protection authority and the Delegation of the European Union to Morocco is important, the steps the nation has already taken, and the findings of their joint study.
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In this Privacy Tracker post, Mayuran Palanisamy, CIPT, and Ravin Nandle, CIPT, offer an analysis of India's new Personal Data Protection Bill, noting that the Srikrishna Committee drafted the bill considering legislative approaches in the EU, U.S. and China.
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US
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released an interim final rule reflecting changes made to the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it has given final approval to the settlement with mobile phone manufacturer BLU Products Inc. and its Co-Owner and President Samuel Ohev-Zion.
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The U.S. House Financial Services Committee passed the Consumer Information Notification Requirement Act, which will require financial institutions to alert consumers when their information is compromised in a data breach.
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The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing Sept. 26 with representatives from tech companies and telecommunication firms to discuss their privacy practices, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said a bipartisan majority of lawmakers in Congress will likely support regulating social media, Bloomberg reports.
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California may become the first state to regulate internet-of-things devices after its state legislature approved the SB-327 Information privacy: connected devices bill, Naked Security reports.
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U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California has given final approval to Yahoo’s data breach settlement worth $80 million, Law.com reports.
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ASIA-PACIFIC
Digital rights groups have banded together to oppose Australia’s Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018, arguing that the government should scrap the surveillance bill, Computerworld reports.
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CANADA
Nova Scotia Privacy Commissioner Catherine Tully criticized the province’s Department of Health for its response to the Sobeys privacy breach, CBC News reports.
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EUROPE
As the Court of Justice of the European Union heard arguments in the right-to-be-forgotten case between Google and France’s data protection authority, the European Commission ended up siding with the tech company on parts of the issue, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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In a long-awaited decision out of Strasbourg, France, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters bulk intelligence program violated privacy, the Guardian reports.
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Members of the European Parliament approved new data protection rules that will ensure a strong framework for data processing in EU institutions, bodies and agencies, updating existing rules to be in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the proposed e-privacy rules.
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The European Commission released a proposal penalizing groups for misusing voter data to influence elections, Reuters reports.
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The U.K. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has released guidance on the possibility of the U.K. and the European Union failing to reach a Brexit agreement.
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Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon has warned companies of data protection authorities' ability to demand an organization cease all data processing when necessary.
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A blog post for Hogan Lovells reports on the Italian Legislative Decree, published Sept. 4 in the Official Journal, which sets forth national implementation for the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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