Italy’s data protection authority has ruled that employers cannot monitor employees’ internet access and emails; the Article 29 Working Party released information on records transferred to non-adequate third countries’ financial authorities; and the higher administrative court of North Rhine-Westphalia sided with a company challenging the legality of Germany’s data retention law. In Canada, two provincial commissioners published annual reports, and the Supreme Court ruled that a Facebook class-action case will be heard in British Columbia. Civil society organizations voiced concerns over Namibia’s proposed Electronic Transactions and Cybercrime Bill. And in the U.S., House Republicans have proposed a bill prohibiting states from creating their own rules for self-driving cars, and the California Assembly is considering a broadband privacy bill. Read about this and more in this week’s Privacy Tracker weekly roundup. (IAPP member login required.)
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