In this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about the latest support for U.S. federal privacy legislation and efforts to bolster state privacy protections. France's data protection authority, the CNIL, has announced the new members of its college. Germany’s competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, has placed restrictions on Facebook’s data-processing activities. In the U.K, the Information Commissioner’s Office has launched an investigation into Google for potential violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and U.K. government ministers are expected to reveal whether the government will create a new regulator for internet companies in order to “break up monopolies.” Read about this and more in this week's Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup. (IAPP member login required.)
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