The California Privacy Protection Agency Board (the "CPPA Board") announced on May 27, 2022, that it would hold a public meeting on June 8 to discuss, among other things, a set of detailed proposed regulations to "Implement,...more
6/6/2022
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
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Personal Information ,
Proposed Regulation ,
State Privacy Laws
Now is a great time to review your security posture, as you have a new tool to help you. On May 18, 2021, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) released Version 8 of its CIS Controls, formerly known as the CIS Critical...more
On Wednesday, the White House released a widely anticipated Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO). The EO addresses four major areas of cybersecurity maturity for the federal government and its private...more
Virginia's legislature has set the stage for the Commonwealth to join California as one of two states with comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) pulls certain policy...more
2/23/2021
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
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Data Management ,
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Data Protection ,
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Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
State and Local Government ,
Virginia
Practitioner’s Corner is a monthly focus on topics of interest to in-house counsel in the implementation of their privacy programs. You were just notified by law enforcement that your company’s files were found on a hacker...more
Practitioner's Corner is a monthly focus on topics of interest to in-house counsel in the implementation of their privacy programs....more
Practitioner’s Corner is a monthly focus on topics of interest to in-house counsel in the implementation of their privacy programs.
Your goal is to protect the company. Their goal is to execute business objectives. Are...more
Practitioner’s Corner is a monthly focus on topics of interest to in-house counsel in the implementation of their privacy programs.
New privacy laws are challenging practitioners’ creativity by forcing us to address...more
Practitioner’s Corner is a monthly focus on topics of interest to in-house counsel in the implementation of their privacy programs.
In CCPA Contracting, Part 1, we explored whether it is necessary for a business to create...more
The Privacy Oracle consolidates significant US legislative and regulatory developments at the state and federal level into a single publication. In this month’s issue, we offer:
- An analysis of bills introduced in the 116th...more
4/29/2019
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
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Private Right of Action ,
Right to Delete
Joseph Simons Sworn in as Chairman of the FTC -
Joseph Simons was sworn in on May 1 as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. President Donald J. Trump named Simons, a Republican, to a term on the Commission that...more
Senators Introduce Bipartisan Internet Privacy Bill -
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) on Tuesday introduced a bipartisan internet privacy bill intended to give users more control over what websites...more
Democrats Propose Tough Opt-In Privacy Law -
Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal proposed on Wednesday a “privacy bill of rights” that would prevent social media sites and other websites from sharing or selling sensitive...more
FTC Names Former Official As New Acting GC -
As reported in Law360 earlier this week, “The Federal Trade Commission on Monday named Alden F. Abbott as its new acting general counsel, a former official for the agency who...more
Commerce Fighting Data Localization Efforts, Official Says -
“The U.S. Department of Commerce has increasingly been working to find common ground on privacy issues with foreign governments in order to clamp down on calls...more
Google Faces New Privacy Suits For Non-User Email Scanning -
Law360 reported this week, “A California law firm said Thursday it has filed the first of what it hopes will be thousands of individual state court damages...more
Why Is Health Care Cybersecurity So Bad? Blame the Insiders, New Verizon Report Says - As reported originally in Fortune, “a new cybersecurity report from Verizon outlines the stunning degree to which internal actors are...more
U.S. Cyber Chief Says Trump Hasn’t Told Him to Confront Russian Cyber ThreatCNN reports this week, “U.S. Cyber Command chief Adm. Mike Rogers told lawmakers on Tuesday that he has not been granted the authority by President...more
DOJ Will Form Cybersecurity Task Force - Law 360 reports, “In the wake of numerous high profile hacks, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will form a Cyber-Digital Task Force aimed at combating a global...more
Group Makes $50 Million by Phishing Bitcoin Users Using Google AdWords -
Bleepingcomputer.com reports that cybercriminals use traditional phishing techniques to steal Bitcoin, but drive traffic to their phishing sites...more
Exclusive: U.S. Consumer Protection Official Puts Equifax Probe on Ice – Sources -
On Monday, Reuters reported that, “Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe...more
US News reports: “A legislative panel has approved a bill that would require companies to inform South Dakota residents whose personal information was taken in a data breach,” and that “the state needs a fair reporting law...more
“Following an increase in reported state data breaches in 2017, North Carolina’s attorney general and a state representative introduced data breach legislation to better protect individuals,” HealthIT Security reports.
In...more
The FTC’s first data security enforcement action in 2017 sends a clear signal to vendors serving the Internet of Things (“IoT”) marketplace: make sure your data security promises match your data security practices. IoT is in...more
Yesterday, it was reported that the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) will give financial institutions an additional 2 months to comply with its new cybersecurity regulations. That would make the effective...more