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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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CANADA

Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien released his annual report calling for more modernized methods to protect personal data.

EUROPE

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.