With President Barack Obama announcing plans to issue an executive order on privacy related to commercial drone use and reports that a bill to curtail NSA surveillance is close to passage, privacy advocates in the U.S. may have reason to hope that the recent Supreme Court ruling over cell-phone privacy may have broader implications. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law requiring Russians’ personal information to be stored on servers within the country; EU officials are dissatisfied with Google’s response to the Court of Justice’s right-to-be-forgotten ruling, and Bills C-13 and S-4 are still drawing headlines in Canada. Read this week’s Privacy Tracker legislative roundup for updates on this and more. (IAPP membership required.)
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