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Nevada Adds “Do Not Sell” Requirement to Privacy Law

Last week, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed new privacy legislation into law in Nevada. Senate Bill 220 (SB-220) updates Nevada Revised State 603A to provide consumers a new right to opt out of the sale of their data....more

Attempt to Expand CCPA Private Right of Action Fails, While Bills Exempting Employee Data and Otherwise Refining CCPA Advance

Over the past several weeks, the California State Assembly has voted in favor of advancing to the California Senate bills that would narrow the reach of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...more

Ad and Publishing Industries Confront CCPA Challenges While Congress Considers Privacy

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), effective Jan. 1, 2020, will require more privacy transparency and choice for consumers than they have ever had under U.S. law, but its approach to providing consumers with the...more

[Event] How CCPA and New Privacy Legislation Will Impact Your Business - May 21st, Chicago, IL

Please join BakerHostetler for a discussion on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), similar legislative proposals in other jurisdictions, and what companies across the U.S. need to do to comply and when. ...more

20 Years Young: The Maturing of COPPA in a Privacy-Conscious Age

We cover children’s privacy and advertising weekly. However, in light of COPPA’s recent 20th anniversary, and in the wake of CARU’s biggest-yet West Coast CARU conference, ADLaw has enlisted CARU super lawyer Katie...more

California Assembly Privacy Committee Votes in Favor of Advancing CCPA Amendments

Last Tuesday, the California Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection (Assembly Privacy Committee), which has jurisdiction over matters related to privacy, the protection of personal information and information...more

Bill to Expand CCPA Private Right of Action Moves Forward

We have previously written about California SB 561, introduced by Senator Jackson (D) and supported by the California Attorney General (AG), that among other things would vastly expand the CCPA’s private right of action and...more

To Ensure a Complete Release, Address California’s New Section 1542

Civil Code Sections 1541 and 1542, California laws that govern the extinguishment of certain obligations, were recently amended by Senate Bill No. 1431. The subtle amendments made to these code sections not only impact...more

The California Consumer Privacy Act: Frequently Asked Questions

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a comprehensive new consumer protection law set to take effect on January 1, 2020. In the wake of the CCPA’s passage, approximately 15 other states introduced their own CCPA-like...more

Increased Scrutiny on Notice and Choice for Use of AD Profiling, Especially Using Mobile Location Data

Are you an app publisher or do you advertise via mobile apps or obtain marketing data that originates from them? If so, you need to beware that regulators and consumer protection authorities are taking action against...more

BakerHostetler Comments On CCPA Rule Making For Clients

The California attorney general (AG) has kicked of it process of promulgating regulations to interpret and implement California’s sweeping new privacy law. ...more

California Sets Forth Further Legislation Imposing New Obligations on Companies

Over the past few weeks, California Republican lawmakers have introduced a new package of legislation called “Your Data, Your Way,” which would expand and strengthen consumer privacy rights beyond what is required by the new...more

States Propose to Expand Child Privacy and Ad Laws

It is the 25th anniversary of the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which has served us well, but states are looking to expand privacy protection for minors. Several years ago California expanded its...more

CCPA Expansion Proposed

On Monday, Feb. 25, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, together with Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D), announced Senate Bill 561 to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...more

Public Forums on the California Consumer Privacy Act Continue in Los Angeles – Rulemaking to Follow

The public forums on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), held by the California Attorney General (AG) and the Department of Justice, continued on Friday, Jan. 25, in Los Angeles, California. ...more

First Public Forum on the California Consumer Privacy Act

The California Attorney General and the Department of Justice held the first public forum about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) on Tuesday, Jan. 8, in San Francisco....more

New FTC Provides Insights Into Its Plan for a Balanced Approach to Data Privacy and Security

This year brought unprecedented focus on consumer privacy – the rollout of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Cambridge Analytica controversy and Congressional hearings, a GDPR-light law coming...more

California Legislature Cracks Down on Advertising Bots Involved in Commercial Transactions and Influencing Voters in Elections

Bot or real person? – a question most online users probably don’t ask themselves when interacting online or seeing how many followers a person has on a social media platform....more

California Delays Privacy Law Enforcement and Congress Is Lobbied to Pre-empt the Law

This summer California enacted, effective Jan. 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a privacy law unprecedented in the U.S. that grants California residents a broad range of European-like privacy rights. ...more

California Amends Landmark Privacy Law Delaying Enforcement and Making Revisions

With only hours left to the 2018 legislative session, the California Legislature has amended the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) by passing SB-1121. The legislature was expected to amend the CCPA, which passed...more

California Consumer Privacy Act: Navigating Consumer Lawsuits & Limiting Remedies

alifornia’s new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA or act), which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2020, grants California residents (referred to as consumers in the act but not limited to consumers) a...more

SB-1121 Does Not Fix the CA Consumer Privacy Act, But Would Delay Enforcement

In response to controversies concerning consumers’ personal information, such as the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica controversy, and a California ballot initiative that qualified for the November ballot and proposed the...more

Not Too Early to Start to Prepare for New California Privacy Law

In late June, the California legislature signed into law Assembly Bill 375 (AB 375) as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), a privacy law, unprecedented in the U.S., that grants California residents a broad...more

California Passes Groundbreaking Data Privacy Law Granting Consumers Expansive Privacy Rights

California has passed an unprecedented privacy law that protects consumers’ rights by providing them with a greater degree of transparency and choice with respect to their personal information online. On June 28, 2018,...more

California Passes Law Protecting Consumers’ Online Privacy

On June 28, 2018, California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 375 and Gov. Jerry Brown signed it into law as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, a privacy law that grants consumers a range of rights with respect to...more

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