A Kuwaiti lawyer has filed a formal constitutional challenge to the country’s counter-terrorism bill that Privacy Tracker highlighted last week. Myanmar’s Lower House passed the Bill to Protect Citizens’ Privacy and Security. Switzerland voted to increase government surveillance at a 66 percent majority. Italy’s Chamber of Deputies has passed a cyberbullying bill. And a proposed bill in the U.S. would see heads of government agencies punished for data breaches in some circumstances. Plus, a Montana District Court case may have implications for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Read about these issues and more in this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup. 

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Swiss voters supported increased government surveillance with a 66 percent majority, reports Softpedia.

A new California anti-discrimination law prohibits certain websites from publishing an individual’s age and requires them to take age information down upon request, reports Betanews.

A Montana court case is pitting privacy rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act against the public’s right to know, the Missoulian reports on the case and what’s at stake.

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Nextgov reports that the proposed Cybersecurity Responsibility and Accountability Act of 2016 would mean government agency heads could be fired, demoted or punished for breaches resulting from their failure to “comply sufficiently with the information security requirements, recommendations or standards.

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Kuwaiti lawyer Adel Abdulhadi has filed a “formal constitutional challenge” of the country’s 2015 counter-terrorism legislation that requires citizens, travelers and expatriates to provide the government with a DNA sample for a database, The International Business Times reports.

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