In this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup, read about Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien’s annual report and push to create rules for accessing citizens’ metadata collection. India may be poised to see its first sector-specific privacy law addressing medical information. Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has been appointed as the country’s information commissioner, and the country’s attorney general aims to criminalize the publishing or disseminating of re-identified information. In the U.S., a Massachusetts court ruled on the admissibility of cellphone data in court and Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., announced she will reintroduce a revenge porn bill in the next Congress as it looks like it will not be passed this session.
LATEST NEWS
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien is pushing for laws to regulate the Communications Security Establishment’s access to and collection of citizens’ metadata, reports The Globe and Mail.
Indian Express reports that the Indian health ministry will work with the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, to draft legislation protecting the privacy of medical information.
The Associated Press reports on the way states are approaching legislation to deal with digital information upon an individual’s death.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Cali., says she will reintroduce the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, which aims to criminalize revenge porn next session as it looks like Congress will not pass it this session, reports The San Francisco Chronicle.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that police must have “particularized evidence” a cellphone was connected to a crime in order to use data from the phone in court, reports The Boston Globe.
Enid News reports that Oklahoma lawmakers are considering creating drone privacy laws.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is pressing Congress to allow it to sue services providers for deceptive practices, reports MediaPost.
Data Quality Campaign released its September 2016 summary of student data privacy legislation.
ICYMI
Richard Santalesa, CIPP/US, writes for Privacy Tracker about New York state's long-awaited cybersecurity regulations for financial services companies.
The recording of last week’s IAPP web conference discussing these the top 10 operational impacts of the GDPR is now available, featuring Fieldfisher Partner Phil Lee, CIPM, CIPP/E, Covington & Burling Partner Jetty Tielemans, and Intel Group Counsel for IT Daniel Christensen, CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPT.
In this episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, Peter Swire, CIPP/US, discusses whether the Privacy Shield will survive in years to come, do not track, and more.
US
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., has asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler to delay the vote on his proposed set-top box rules, Multichannel News reports.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has decided that its state rape law applies to appeals, meaning that the sexual history of murder and rape victim Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott will stay private during the convicted rapist and murderer’s appeals process, ABC News reports.
ASIA PACIFIC
Australia Attorney-General George Brandis plans to amend the Privacy Act to make it a criminal offense to publish or disseminate “re-identified” government datasets, the Guardian reports.
The Australian government has appointed current Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim as the country’s newest information commissioner, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
CANADA
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien released his annual report calling for more modernized methods to protect personal data.
A CBC News report found six Canadian provinces have not implemented or have no laws requiring hospitals, doctors or other health care organizations to notify patients when their data is breached.
EUROPE
The European Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip has said that the EC wants to remove restrictions for storing certain types of health and commercial data, Reuters reports.
European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli issued an opinion stating privacy rights and data protection should receive stronger consideration by regulators in the merger approval process, Out-Law.com reports.
The CNIL announced it will conduct a new series of inspections to ensure companies are complying with cookie laws, Bird & Bird reports. The next wave of inspections will look at the partners of publishers, including advertisers, social media networks, and audience measurement companies.
U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said the country should still adopt the General Data Protection Regulation, even after the results of Brexit, BBC News reports.