It's no secret that plaintiffs' firms have been developing legal theories relating to third-party software technologies used on websites. This includes a recent spike in lawsuits alleging that websites running the Meta...more
Earlier this month, Colorado became the third state to pass comprehensive data privacy legislation. As we have previously analyzed, California originally passed the CCPA and the CPRA, then Virginia passed the VCDPA, and now...more
California is continuing to make news with respect to its privacy laws. California's Attorney General recently announced the approval of new amendments to regulations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The new...more
Virginia has become the latest state to pass comprehensive privacy legislation as its legislature voted to enact SB 1392, known as the Consumer Data Protection Act (the "Act"). Although many other states have proposed privacy...more
2/24/2021
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While California understandably has received most of the attention given its recent passage of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), several other states continue to move forward with consideration of their own privacy...more
1/27/2021
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While most of us have been understandably focused on the presidential election, the State of California has passed significant new privacy legislation that may have a substantive impact on your business. Specifically,...more
On October 10, the California Attorney General issued its proposed regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The long-anticipated regulations are intended to provide guidance to businesses for how to comply...more
10/16/2019
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Last month, facing the threat of a ballot initiative in November, the California legislature passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the "Act"). The Act is the most rigorous privacy measure in the United States in...more
On June 28, the California legislature passed AB 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. The impact of the law reaches far beyond California. Much like the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),...more
The CFPB recently announced a new policy guidance concerning the data required to be collected, reported, and disclosed by financial institutions to the public under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The guidance is...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated its compliance plan for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Introduced in 1998, COPPA establishes the guidelines under which personal information may be...more