In this week’s Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about a delay to Singapore’s Cybersecurity Bill; the U.K. Data Protection Bill 2017, which was introduced in the House of Lords; Germany’s new law implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation; and the Council of the European Union published its first revisions to the EU ePrivacy Regulation. Plus, Australia’s House of Representatives has passed the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016. In the U.S., Democratic senators introduced the Data Broker Accountability and Transparency Act on the heels of the Equifax breach; a bipartisan group of U.S. representatives have reintroduced the International Communications Privacy Act; and state lawmakers shelved the California Privacy Act, a bill proposed in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s rollback of Obama-era broadband protections. Editor’s Note: Last week the Privacy Tracker weekly roundup included out-of-date information on a Finnish law that was repealed in 2015. We apologize for the error, it has since been corrected.

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The Singapore minister for communications and information has announced that the country’s Cybersecurity Bill, expected this year, will not be tabled until the 2018 session of Parliament, reports Channel News Asia.
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The U.S. 9th Circuit ruled in favor of the personal privacy of 149 noncitizens over a FOIA request seeking their names from the treasurer of the National Border Patrol Council, reports Law360.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives have reintroduced the International Communications Privacy Act, which would give law enforcement the power to require telecommunications providers to turn over the contents of an electronic communication no matter where they are held with a warrant, reports Multichannel News.
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The Los Angeles Times reports that California lawmakers shelved the California Privacy Act, a bill that would have put restrictions on ISPs’ abilities to share consumer data.
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Decatur Daily reports on Alabama’s lack of a breach notification law and efforts by some to get one passed.
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In New Hampshire, an advisory committee is looking into creating rules on how to identify crime victims in court papers, reports The Concord Monitor.
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ICYMI

Philip Gordon, chair of Littler Mendelson's Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group, offers this Privacy Tracker post outlining 10 practical steps that U.S. multinationals can take to address the EU General Data Protection Regulation’s provisions with the greatest impact on managing a global workforce.
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In this Privacy Tracker post, Ernst Oliver Wilhelm, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, FIP, offers an overview of Germany’s Data Protection Adaptation and Implementation Act, specifically Article 1, which replaces the current Federal Data Protection Act.
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US

Following Equifax’s data breach last week, a group of Democratic senators has introduced the Data Broker Accountability and Transparency Act to hold the data-broker industry accountable for breaches, Broadcasting & Cable reports.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill allowing victims of revenge porn to file civil lawsuits under a pseudonym in a measure to further protect victim privacy, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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ASIA PACIFIC

The Australian House of Representatives has passed the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016, with the Telecommunications Sector Security Reforms to establish a framework for national security threats, ZDNet reports.
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China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced plans to create a national data repository for information on cyberattacks and will require telecom firms, internet companies and domain name providers to report threats to it, effective 1 Jan., Reuters reports.
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CANADA

The Toronto Star reports Ontario will no longer allow pharmaceutical companies to promote their products through patients’ electronic health records.
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EUROPE

In ongoing efforts to move forward with the proposed ePrivacy Regulation in the EU, the Council of the European Union has offered its first revisions, with proposed amendments and deletions, primarily focused on the "operative part of the proposal (articles)" with plans to examine the recitals at a later date.
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The U.K.'s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport introduced the Data Protection Bill 2017 to the House of Lords Wednesday and published it online Thursday.
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During his annual state of the union speech, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced the Commission will add funds and new powers to the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security, EURACTIV.com reports.
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