June

Indian Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda is urging the Indian government to bring new legislation on data privacy, pointing out that people are facing the risk of data theft, especially with a system like Aadhaar in place. Hooda noted that that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) recently had to go to the local police to file a complaint against data misuse by Axis Bank, business correspondent Suvidhaa Infoserve and e-sign provider eMudhra. Hooda is asking for the Indian government to create data privacy policies that mirror policies in other countries, such as the EU.

The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards, recently released a report reviewing the Privacy Act 1993.

The report recommends amendments to the Act as part of the overhaul of New Zealand privacy law that was announced by the Ministry of Justice in 2014. The Commissioner's recommendations focus on strengthening enforcement powers and aligning laws internationally, including GDPR that comes into effect in May 2018.

The recommendations include a right to personal information portability, controls on re-identification, a new power to require demonstrations of agency compliance, a new civil penalty provision, adjustments to criminal offenses, and public register reform.

Sri Lanka is looking to establish a Digital Identity Council to implement a national policy on the collection, storage, sharing and use of citizens ' personal data under the proposed centralized Household Transfer Management project.
 
The project aims to establish a National Digital Identifier and National Digital Transaction platform wher data, including biometric information of citizens, would be stored and shared with government organizations through a National Authentication Platform.
 
The Digital Identity Council will draft the amendment and present the legislation to the Sri Lanka Parliament.