In this week’s Privacy Tracker global legislative roundup, read about updates to Brazil’s new General Data Protection Law. Sweden is now among the EU nations that have handed out EU General Data Protection Regulation fines. Facebook earns a legal victory in Germany while it sees another case revived in the U.S. In Canada, a Nova Scotia government agency breached state privacy law. There are plans to reintroduce a biometric privacy bill in Florida, and Georgia’s Supreme Court may set a new precedent when it decides on a data breach case.
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France’s Council of State, Conseil d’État, has requested the Court of Justice of the European Union render a preliminary ruling on questions related to citizens’ right to be delisted from Google’s search engine.
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The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf has decided to suspend the prior orders by Germany’s competition regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, that prohibited Facebook from merging user data from other sources.
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Updated National Registration Identity Card data collection rules from Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission are set to come into force Sept. 1.
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Grocery company Albertsons has filed a motion to the Cook County Circuit Court arguing the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act is unconstitutional.
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ICYMI
Ana Teresa Nehemy, CIPP/E, outlines the latest updates and key changes to Brazil’s General Data Protection Law in this post for Privacy Tracker.
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APAC
After hearing from social media platforms, India’s Supreme Court has warned the government on its potential plan to link the country’s Aadhaar identification system to social media accounts.
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CANADA
Nova Scotia Information and Privacy Commissioner Catherine Tully said the province’s Energy Department violated “almost every provision” of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act after releasing her office’s findings on an FOI request.
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EUROPE
IAB Europe and IAB Tech Lab have published the second version of the Transparency and Consent Framework.
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Business Review reported on the impact the EU General Data Protection Regulation has had on Romania since its implementation.
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The Swedish data protection authority, Datainspektionen, announced that it issued its first discipline for violations of the GDPR, which came in the form of a SEK 200,000 fine.
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U.S.
A class-action suit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging Facebook did not properly inform users about data risks related to its single sign-on tool, which was the source of the social network’s 2018 data breach.
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Two Colorado residents dropped their location privacy lawsuits “without prejudice� against Google and Apple but not the suit filed against Facebook.
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U.S. State Sen. Gary Farmer, D-Fla., has plans to propose a previously rejected biometric privacy bill when the state legislature reconvenes.
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The Georgia Supreme Court has heard arguments in a case to determine whether those affected by data breaches are entitled to damages despite a lack of immediate harm.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it has approved a final consent order in its settlement with SecurTest over claims it falsified its compliance status with the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield agreements.
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