On April 2, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA or “the Agency”) issued the Agency’s first-ever enforcement advisory. The advisory (“Applying Data Minimization to Consumer Requests”) reaffirms data minimization as...more
Last month, I reported on five new privacy laws going into effect in 2023. Well, now we can add one more to the list of US state privacy laws on the books. The recent passage of Iowa's data privacy law is a significant...more
Shortly before Privacy Day, California Attorney General (Cal AG) Rob Bonta announced a California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement sweep that targeted mobile applications....more
On May 13th, New York State Senator Kevin Thomas, Chair of NY’s Consumer Protection Committee, reintroduced the New York Privacy Act (“NYPA”), a comprehensive consumer privacy law similar in kind to the California Consumer...more
Keypoint: Bill would add right to deletion to COPPA. Senators introduced the “Clean Slate for Kids Online Act of 2021” in the United States Senate last week. The bill seeks to amend the Children’s Online Privacy...more
Keypoint: There were a number of notable developments this week: the Washington Privacy Act passed out of a house committee after adding a private right of action, there was more movement on the Florida and Connecticut bills,...more
Keypoint: Modifications to the CCPA regulation’s provisions regarding requests to opt-out and authorized agent requests are now final. On March 15, 2021, the California Attorney General’s office announced that the Office...more
In November, California voters took a (yet another) sharp turn in the data privacy lane and passed Proposition 24, better known as the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). This replaces the California Consumer Privacy Act...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—the most comprehensive personal data privacy legislation anywhere in the United States so far—is officially being enforced. Is your website in compliance? Does it need to be? What...more
On November 3, 2020, California voters passed Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Crafted to address perceived gaps in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the CPRA effectively calcifies the law...more
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) expands the definition of personal information as it currently exists in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CPRA adds “sensitive personal information” as a defined term,...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) created groundbreaking new rules for how businesses must handle California consumers’ personal data and spurred proposals for similar legislation across the country. ...more
As more organizations find themselves under scrutiny for the way they collect and use consumer data, maintaining CCPA compliance has never been more important. CCPA has been introduced to give control back to consumers,...more
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is going to be on the November 3 ballot. The CPRA would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to provide a greater level of rights for consumers and more stringent...more
On Friday, California's Office of Administrative Law officially approved final regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), arguably the nation’s most comprehensive legislation governing the collection,...more
On March 11, The California Attorney General (CA AG) released a second set of modifications to the proposed regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)....more
The California Attorney General’s office published revised proposed regulations for implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) on February 7, 2020. What are the implications for businesses trying to stay...more
On February 10, 2020, the Attorney General issued revisions to the proposed regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the CCPA) which were originally published in October of last year. While the Attorney General...more
- The California Attorney General Office (AGO) issued revised proposed regulations (Version 2) regarding the California Consumer Privacy Act on February 7, 2020. The AGO will collect comments on the revised regulations until...more
- The Washington state Senate has passed its version of a consumer data privacy bill as state lawmakers debate proposed legislation for the Washington Privacy Act, the state’s first data privacy law. - In their own bill,...more
On February 7, 2020, and again on February 10, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released modified proposed regulations (“Modified Proposed Regulations”) to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Cal....more
In the last two years, businesses have been catapulted into a dizzying new world, with privacy expectations and requirements that were unheard of just two years ago. ...more
On January 30, Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) introduced H.R. 5703, the Protecting the Information of our Vulnerable Children and Youth Act (Kids PRIVCY Act) that would expand requirements under the Children’s Online Privacy...more
The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) went into effect January 1, 2020, though the enforcement of the CCPA is delayed until July 1, 2020. The obligations set forth below will apply to all parties; however, the...more
This article is intended to provide an outline summary of some of the key elements of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), including determining if your business is subject to CCPA and what are its primary...more