In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, read about plans in Antigua & Barbuda to craft drone privacy legislation. A Canadian bill that would keep genetic testing information private is on shaky ground. The EU Court of Justice ruled to give protections to providers of free Wi-Fi. Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and ILITA has put out draft guidelines on workplace monitoring. Zimbabwe is working toward a cybercrime law. And in the U.S., the sanctity of cellphones has been preserved in Arizona’s Supreme Court; Montana’s Supreme Court has ruled for greater privacy protections for student education records; and New Jersey took a step closer to limiting retailers’ collection of customer data.
LATEST NEWS
Antigua & Barbuda has plans to craft legislation to regulate drones use in the country, Senior Sergeant Frankie Thomas told Antigua Observer.
A Canadian Senate bill that would keep genetic testing information private will be discussed in Parliament as it comes back into session, though its future is in question, reports National Post.
EU Business reports that the European Court of Justice has found that operators of free public Wi-Fi cannot be held liable for users infringing copyright laws.
The Israeli Supreme Court upheld Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, allowing U.S. tax authorities to access the Israeli bank account information of Americans, reports The Jewish Voice.
The Israel Law, Information and Technology Authority has released draft guidelines stating that surveillance cameras in the workplace cannot be used to monitor employees and employees must be notified of their presence and use, reports Bloomberg BNA.
The constitutional court will weigh in on Kuwait’s new DNA database after concerns arose over individuals’ lack of choice in the matter, reports Arab Times Online.
TechZim reports Zimbabwe’s government plans to craft into law a draft Computer Crime and Cybercrime Bill.
Arizona’s Supreme Court ruled that the lack of password protection on a phone does not give authorities the right to access its contents in a case involving necrophilia and sexual assault, reports Ars Technica.
In a ruling over right to know laws, the Montana Supreme Court said student's education records have a heightened level of privacy protection, reports the Associated Press.
Lexology reports that the New Jersey Senate unanimously approved a bill that would limit retailers’ ability to collect and use personal data from customers’ identification cards.
ICYMI
In this third post in a Privacy Tracker series on GDPR conundrums, Lokke Moerel discusses the Article 29 Working Party’s attempts to overcome the issues with processing special categories of data under the current Data Protection Directive and how these issues are addressed in the GDPR.
The Nov. 3 web conference “Preparing for the GDPR: Attaining and Demonstrating Compliance” offers a virtual discussion about the accountability approach for attaining and maintaining GDPR compliance through the “appropriate technical and organizational measures” required by Article 24.
The U.S. federal government released updated guidance on the senior agency official for privacy at the Privacy. Security. Risk. conference in San Jose, California. Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, has the coverage for The Privacy Advisor.
US
The Federal Trade Commission has opened its Disposal Rule up to public comment, the agency reports in a press release.
The Federal Trade Commission announced it will open the Safeguards Rule under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to public comment for the purpose of evaluating its ability to protect consumer information, Bloomberg BNA reports.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has released his proposed cybersecurity regulations for banks in conjunction with the Department of Financial Services, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Tenants in the state of California have been granted expanded confidentiality rights under a new law just signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that seals eviction case records for 60 days, SFGate reports.
ASIA PACIFIC
In new draft guidelines, the Israel Law, Information and Technology Authority has proposed that surveillance cameras in workplaces for security means cannot be used to monitor employees, and that businesses have the responsibility to notify workers of the cameras’ presence and purpose, Bloomberg BNA reports.
The Philippines Data Privacy Act’s implementing rules and regulations, enacted Sept. 9, represent a maturation of both country and regional privacy laws that will have a global effect, the Hogan Lovells’ team writes in an op-ed for its Chronicle of Data Protection blog.
The recent employee-borne breach at AIS has some analysts calling for Thailand’s lawmakers to adopt formal, countrywide data protection laws for the information and communication technology industry, the Bangkok Post reports.