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California Privacy Protection Agency Posts Preliminary Proposed Regulations

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

New Children's Data Privacy Protections Take Effect in the U.K.: What to Know and How to Comply

Beginning September 2, 2021, companies that offer certain types of online services in the U.K. must implement a new code of practice governing the handling of children's personal data (the Children's Code or Code).1 The...more

Center for Internet Security Updates CIS Controls With Focus on Cloud, Mobile, and Remote Work

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

White House Releases Wide-Ranging Executive Order on Cybersecurity

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 Poised to Enact Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law

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

California Voters Pass Proposition 24 – the California Privacy Rights Act

As expected, Californians voted on November 3, 2020, to adopt the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), better known as Proposition 24. The CPRA amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in subtle and significant ways...more

Google's Data Collection Practices Face Scrutiny in Recent Lawsuit

Google has recently been named in three lawsuits that challenge how it collects users' personal information and whether users can opt out of the collection. Each of these cases raises important issues relating to notice and...more

Update on Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Data Following Schrems II

In Data Protection Commissioner v. Schrems (Schrems II), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated Decision 2016/1250 on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, finding on July 16, 2020, that the Privacy Shield...more

EU High Court Invalidates EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a long awaited opinion yesterday (July 16, 2020) in Data Protection Commissioner v. Schrems1 finding the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield inadequate for lawfully transferring the...more

Practitioners’ Corner: Do Not Track Is Back? Preparing for Browser-Based Preference Signals

Giving consumers choices to control the collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information has been a key feature of privacy law and guidance for decades. However, in the United States, until the advent of the...more

Employee Temperature Checks and the CCPA

Businesses are developing and implementing new safety protocols as they prepare to reopen and enter the next phase of the COVID-19 era. When they do so, businesses must keep employees’ privacy at the top of their mind. This...more

Practitioner’s Corner: What Can In-House Lawyers Do to Ensure Reasonable Security?

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

Security and Privacy Urgent Care: COVID-19 Is a Threat to Your Health and Your Network

COVID-19 is first and foremost a threat to our health, but as many organizations are quickly discovering, it also raises novel questions about privacy and security. We recognize that privacy and security are two of many, many...more

Practitioners’ Corner: Third-Party Cookies in a Post-CCPA World

Practitioner's Corner is a monthly focus on topics of interest to in-house counsel in the implementation of their privacy programs....more

Practitioners’ Corner: The FTC is the COPPA on the Beat: The YouTube Settlement and What It Means for In-House Counsel

Practitioner’s Corner is a monthly focus on topics of interest to in-house counsel in the implementation of their privacy programs. On September 4, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Google and YouTube...more

Practitioners’ Corner: What Is Personal Information? Or, Understanding Anonymization, De-Identification, and Aggregation

Practitioners' Corner is a monthly focus on topics of interest to in-house counsel in the implementation of their privacy programs. Pop quiz: Is an IP address personal information? Answer: It depends, of course!...more

Practitioners’ Corner: Counsel’s Guide to Winning Friends and Influencing the Business

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

FTC Seeks Comment on Effectiveness of Last Round of COPPA Rule Amendments, Asks if Further Changes Are Warranted

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released a Request for Public Comment soon to appear in the Federal Register seeking input on the efficacy of amendments made in 2013 to its Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act...more

Practitioner’s Corner: Another Piece in the Jigsaw Puzzle

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

Practitioners’ Corner: CCPA Contracting, Part 2

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: April 2019

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

ICYMI in Cybersecurity and Data Breach

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

ICYMI in Cybersecurity and Data Breach

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

ICYMI in Cybersecurity and Data Breach

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

ICYMI in Cybersecurity and Data Breach

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

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