No Password Required: Founder and Commissioner of the US Cyber Games, CEO of the Cyber Marketing Firm Katzcy, and Someone Who Values Perseverance Over Perfection
Biometric Litigation
Founder of Cyber Security Unity, Member of the Order of the British Empire, and Appreciator of '80s Soap Operas
Illinois Supreme Court Clarifies BIPA Violation Accruals, Opening the Door for “Annihilative” Damage
No Password Required: The Custom T-Shirt-Wearing CEO Who Not Only Appreciates Mega Man ... He Basically Is One
Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth
Legislating Data Privacy Series: A Conversation with Massachusetts Representatives Dave Rogers and Andy Vargas
State Law Privacy Video Series | Privacy and Sensitive Information
Podcast: BIPA Trends in 2022
State Law Privacy Video Series | Applicability
Getting Personal—Wearable Devices, Data, and Compliance
Episode 8: Why brokers, not breaches, are America's greatest privacy threat (with Rob Shavell)
NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
Inside Privacy Law: The Regulation of Personal Data
NGE On Demand: Cybersecurity Considerations for Emerging Companies with Michael Gray and David Wheeler
Oklahoma: Changing Data Privacy as We Know It?
The Convergence of AI and Data Privacy in eDiscovery: Using AI and Analytics to Identify Personal Information
Reducing Cybersecurity Burdens with a Customized Data Breach Workflow
Sitting with the C-Suite: Looking Ahead to Potential Compliance Issues Due to COVID-19
Sitting with the C-Suite: Information Governance and eDiscovery - Key Compliance Issues for In-House Counsel
In an ongoing effort to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the California Attorney General's Office (CAG) announced a recent settlement against Tilting...more
On June 7, 2024, the New York state legislature passed two bills aimed at increasing the protection of children in an ever-changing digital world. Titled the New York Child Data Protection Act (CDPA) and the Stop Addictive...more
Keypoint: While the act does not include many provisions found in the more recent consumer data privacy laws, it would expand privacy notice obligations in one significant way although the applicability and scope of that...more
Texas has joined Arkansas and Utah as the third state to impose requirements on social media accounts for those under 18. Namely, with the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act (“SCOPE Act”), Texas will...more
As a former Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation who investigated cybercrimes involving children, I know from experience that the topic of increasing online protections for minors provoked intense debates...more
Epic Games, Inc. (“Epic”) agreed to pay a combined $520 million in two “record-breaking settlements” on Monday. The settlements resolve alleged violations of both the Federal Trade Commission Act (the “FTC Act”) and the...more
On March 3, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a settlement with WW International, Inc. (formerly known as Weight Watchers) and its subsidiary Kurbo, Inc. to resolve a complaint that the companies’ app – Kurbo...more
On October 11, 2019, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra signaled his enforcement priorities and released the long awaited proposed regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which was signed into...more
Foreword - European data protection laws have made significant strides in the last two decades. Privacy and data protection laws have undergone dramatic changes over the last 20 years, in a race to keep up with technology....more
On October 10, California’s Attorney General released proposed regulations that provide much needed guidance on how businesses can plan for compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), which will...more
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that, beginning today, consumers concerned about identity theft or data breaches can place credit freezes and one year fraud alerts with the three nationwide credit bureaus for free....more
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) is arguably the most comprehensive - and complex - data privacy regulation in the United States. The CCPA was designed to emulate the European General Data Protection...more
California recently passed and signed into law a privacy bill that provides California consumers with data protections that share key features with the European Union's GDPR. While not nearly as strict or extensive as the...more
Recently the state of California passed a data privacy and security law called the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) (Assembly Bill 375). The law, which takes effect on January 1, 2020, is aimed at establishing a...more
What You Need to Know Now - • The new law takes effect January 1, 2020, but there’s a lot to do so you need to start work now. • The new law expands the definition of personal information and gives California consumers...more
On June 28, 2018, California passed a new privacy law that is one of the most stringent consumer protection privacy laws in the nation. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Act) introduces onerous new requirements and...more
This has been a big year in the data protection world, with the headline-grabbing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) occupying most of the spotlight with its plethora of privacy-related requirements and potential for...more
Just when you thought it was safe to open your e-mail again without being inundated with updated privacy policies, here comes the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). The new law, which goes into effect on...more
Due to some last-minute bargaining between state lawmakers and proponents of a controversial data privacy initiative, California businesses will soon need to prepare to comply with a new state measure designed to protect...more
China's new Cybersecurity Law ("new Law") is set to come into effect on June 1, 2017, and introduces sweeping provisions that may have a significant impact on companies doing business in and with China. To provide guidance on...more
A class action alleging Viacom illegally obtained and disclosed personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen through the Nickelodeon website recently reached the end of line (almost) when the...more
The Delaware Online Privacy and Protection Act (the "Act") addresses privacy policy, marketing or advertising to Delaware residents under age 18 and digital book service information disclosure requirements. The Act goes into...more
Last week the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed, with prejudice, class action claims against Google and Viacom concerning targeted advertising and the online tracking of children through...more
According to a Request for Investigation filed with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) on December 9, 2014, a coalition of consumer and children’s privacy rights organizations has asked for a federal investigation of the...more
On Jan. 1, 2015, California’s “Online Eraser” law will take effect, requiring websites and other online service operators to delete on demand any content posted by minors. The law also prohibits such operators from sharing...more