Following up on our April 27, 2022 post, Data Scraping Deemed Legal in Certain Circumstances, the most significant data scraping lawsuit has finally come to an end. After six years of litigation, LinkedIn Corp. and hiQ Labs,...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) exemptions for employee and business-to-business (B2B) personal information have not been extended, further complicating the privacy regulatory landscape for businesses in...more
The California attorney general released a fourth set of proposed modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act regulations; notable regulatory changes include a new opt-out button for websites and an offline notice of...more
12/21/2020
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California recently approved the final regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect August 14, 2020. This article highlights some of the most notable changes to the final regulations and...more
9/1/2020
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The US Supreme Court has rejected a bright-line rule denying applications to register trademarks comprising a generic term and “.com.” In an 8–1 decision by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in United States Patent and Trademark...more
7/7/2020
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With the July 1 enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) less than a month away, the state attorney general has finally submitted the final text of the proposed CCPA regulations to the California Office of...more
6/4/2020
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With the July 1 enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) less than a month away, the state attorney general has finally submitted the final text of the proposed CCPA regulations to the California Office of...more
6/4/2020
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Given the number of employees and independent contractors working remotely, it is a good time for companies to reassess their trade secret policies and remind all personnel of their obligations to maintain and protect the...more
While the final CCPA regulations remain pending, written comments on the recently released proposed modifications are due by February 25, 2020. This article highlights some of the most notable changes to the proposed...more
2/19/2020
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A constantly evolving framework of laws governing how multinational businesses can contact customers to how nonprofits report business income to how overtime is calculated and paid will influence how companies do business...more
2/3/2020
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The landmark California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect on January 1, 2020, is the first privacy act of its kind in the United States and significantly alters the privacy and cybersecurity enforcement...more
The landmark California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect on January 1, 2020, grants consumers a limited private right of action against the unauthorized access and exfiltration, theft, or disclosure of certain...more
California is the fifth largest economy in the world. Its new laws and regulations have an impact far beyond its borders. Many Non-US companies do business in California. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives California residents various new rights regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information, and imposes a number of obligations on businesses covered...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives consumers the right to request that a business (1) respond to a consumer with a list of the categories or specific pieces of personal information that the business has...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives consumers the right to request that a business (1) respond to the consumer with a list of the categories or specific pieces of personal information that the business has...more
11/22/2019
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All businesses subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will need to have privacy policies that comply with the CCPA, regardless of whether they conduct business in person, online, or through mobile apps, and...more
The California attorney general released the highly anticipated proposed regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) on October 10, providing detailed guidance on CCPA compliance for affected...more
The recently proposed regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) “establish procedures to facilitate consumers’ new rights under the CCPA and provide guidance to businesses for how to comply.” This...more
The second article in our Guide to the CCPA series focuses on verifying consumer requests received pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The California attorney general’s recently proposed regulations...more
As of January 1, security breach notifications must be provided to consumers when certain account information is compromised.
On September 27, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill No. 46 (S.B....more
The state continues to lead the United States in the data privacy and security field by giving minors an Internet “delete” option and requiring disclosures about “do not track” practices.
In September 2013, California...more
Trade secret protection expanded to include products or services "used in or intended for use in interstate or foreign commerce."
On December 28, 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the Theft of Trade Secrets...more
Recent FTC and California Attorney General actions highlight the need to reassess privacy policies.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently ordered the data brokerage industry to provide information on the collection...more
1/3/2013
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