In this week’s Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, Egypt has passed its first data protection legislation. A lawsuit has been filed in Nigeria to prohibit the disclosure of personal information belonging to the country’s president. In the U.S., Hawaii is on the verge of passing a law that prohibits the sale of location data, new privacy legislation in Maine and Nevada are viewed against the California Consumer Privacy Act, a Minnesota police officer was awarded $585,000 in a privacy suit against her own department, and opinions on how to craft federal privacy legislation continue to sprout up across the U.S. (IAPP member login required.)
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