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FTC to Study “Surveillance Pricing”

On July 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had voted unanimously to initiate a new study focused on how companies may be leveraging consumer purchasing behaviors to personalize pricing for...more

AI Legislative and Regulatory Efforts Pick Up Steam: What We’re Watching

AI capabilities are growing by the day, and with them, so are increasing government efforts to put in place guardrails, principles, and rules to govern the AI space. In May alone, Utah’s Artificial Intelligence Policy Act...more

What Updates to the Health Breach Notification Rule Mean for Your Business

On July 29, 2024, the FTC’s revised Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) takes effect. The Rule requires vendors of personal health records (PHRs) and related entities not covered by HIPAA to notify individuals, the FTC,...more

Top 5 State Privacy Issues We’re Monitoring This Year

The year ahead promises to be busy on the state privacy front. As we’ve covered on this blog, states are continuing to fill the gap at the federal level by implementing comprehensive state laws that guarantee consumer privacy...more

Top Advertising Law Developments in 2023

If you follow our blog, you already know that there have been a number of significant developments in the world of advertising law over the past 12 months. In this post, we highlight ten of those developments and consider...more

FTC Proposes Changes to COPPA Rule: What Businesses Need to Know

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule). The COPPA Rule applies to operators of websites and online services...more

CFPB Issues Proposed Rule to Expand Supervisory Authority, Conduct Examinations of Digital Wallets and Mobile Payment Apps

Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a notice of proposed rulemaking that would allow the agency to supervise and conduct examinations of certain non-bank providers of digital wallets and...more

CCPA Update:  Agencies push ahead with enforcement as Superior Court delays new regulations

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) and California Office of Attorney General (OAG) are publicly pressing ahead with enforcement now that they have the authority to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act...more

With July 1st in view, Google updates CCPA contract terms

Google updated its privacy terms earlier this month, shifting away from offering many of its advertising services on a “service provider” basis. With the change, Google states that its Customer Match, Audience Partner API,...more

What’s in the Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act?

Indiana’s Consumer Data Protection Act advanced in the state legislature last week and now heads to Governor Eric J. Holcomb’s desk. The bill mirrors comprehensive privacy legislation enacted in Virginia, Utah, and Iowa,...more

FCC Seeks Comments on Updates to CPNI Breach Reporting Rule

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) is seeking comments on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to refresh its customer proprietary network information (“CPNI”) data breach reporting requirements...more

CPRA Update: California Privacy Protection Agency Votes to Begin Rulemaking Process

On Wednesday, June 8, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board voted 4-0 (with one member absent) to initiate the CPRA rulemaking process based on the draft regulations released on May 27th prior to the Memorial...more

New Bipartisan Federal Privacy Bill – Breakthrough, Too Late, or Both?

On Friday June 3, a bipartisan group of leaders from key House and Senate committees released a new “discussion draft” bill to establish nationwide standards for consumer privacy. The proposal (the American Data Privacy and...more

New California Draft Privacy Regulations: How They Would Change Business Obligations and Enforcement Risk

On Friday May 27, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board announced its next public meeting will be on June 8, 2022. The announcement simply stated the date of the meeting, that there are “some discussion...more

Ten Percent and Rising: Connecticut Becomes Fifth U.S. State to Enact Privacy Law

On Tuesday, Connecticut became the fifth state to pass comprehensive privacy legislation when Governor Ned Lamont signed “An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring” into law. Connecticut joins California,...more

California AG’s First CCPA Opinion Takes a Broad View of the Right to Access Inferences

In the first formal written opinion interpreting CCPA compliance obligations, California Attorney General Rob Bonta concludes that the CCPA grants consumers the right to know and access internally generated inferences that...more

Targeted Advertising in the Crosshairs: New Bill Seeks to Ban Many Forms of Targeted Advertising

Background - On Tuesday, Congressional Democrats unveiled a new bill to outlaw a wide swath of targeted advertising. The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act would prohibit ad tech companies from using consumers’...more

Credential Stuffing: Cyber Best Practices from NY Attorney General’s Latest Report

In guidance released last week, the New York State Office of the Attorney General urged businesses to incorporate safeguards to detect and prevent credential-stuffing attacks in their data security programs.  The guidance...more

CPRA Update: California Legislature Makes Technical Changes to CPRA

Last week, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 694, which makes a few technical changes to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The relevant changes to the CPRA are summarized below....more

Soltani Appointed as Inaugural California Privacy Protection Agency Executive Director

During last month’s California Privacy Protection Agency Board (CPPA) meeting, the only substantive agenda item, addressed in closed session, was a discussion of two key appointments: the first Executive Director and a Chief...more

Out with the Old, In with the New SCCs

As of September 27, 2021, the European Commission requires controllers and processors to rely on the recently updated Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for any new contracts governing personal data transfers from the EEA....more

CPRA Update: California Privacy Rulemaking Process Begins

On September 22, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) issued an invitation for public comments as part of its first “preliminary” rulemaking activities. Established by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)...more

CCPA Update: California AG Releases List of Enforcement Actions 

The California Office of the Attorney General has published a list of recent CCPA enforcement examples on its website. Each example summarizes the AG’s allegation of noncompliance and the steps that the companies took to...more

CPRA Update: How to Prepare for Privacy Compliance as an Employer

Last year’s voter guide to California Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), included a stark argument against enacting the privacy ballot initiative because it did not go far enough to protect employee...more

CPRA Update: CalPPA Gets Started with Inaugural Meeting and Agenda

Just a few months after California officials announced the nominations of the inaugural Board members of the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CalPPA”), the CalPPA released the agenda for its first board meeting on June...more

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