On May 16, 2024, the Illinois General Assembly joined the Illinois Senate in approving S.B. 2979, a bill that amends the state’s landmark Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by limiting plaintiffs’ potential damages...more
On December 20, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or “the Commission”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) proposing amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (the “COPPA Rule” or the “Rule”)....more
1/15/2024
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COPPA ,
Data Security ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Exceptions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Microsoft ,
Notice Requirements ,
NPRM ,
Online Platforms ,
Parental Consent ,
Personal Information ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Public Schools ,
Safe Harbors ,
Websites
The state of California is on the verge of amending its current data broker law with Senate Bill 362, also known as the Delete Act (“the Act”). The Act passed in the Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection and...more
9/1/2023
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California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Compliance ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Brokers ,
Duty to Delete ,
Geolocation ,
Legislative History ,
Pending Legislation ,
PHI ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Registration Requirement ,
Right to Delete ,
Sensitive Personal Information
On May 18, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (the HBNR or the Rule), including clarifying the rule’s applicability to health apps and other similar technologies. These...more
On March 15, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced proposed changes to Regulation S-P (“Reg S-P”) that would impose new cybersecurity incident response requirements on broker-dealers, investment...more
On November 9, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) formally proposed amendments (the “Proposed Amendments”) to the Part 500 Cybersecurity Regulations (the “Cybersecurity Regulations”). The Proposed...more
Virginia lawmakers are considering multiple amendments to Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA). These amendments mostly address a variety of open issues under the law, including the right to cure, how businesses can...more
Less than a month before Californians are to vote on the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the California attorney general (California AG) proposed a third set of modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act’s...more
On March 12, 2020, the California Attorney General (“California AG”) released a second set of modified regulations (“Second Set of Modifications”) for the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) that further revise the...more
On February 7, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (the California AG) proposed revisions to the regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that his office had first proposed on October...more
2/11/2020
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Comment Period ,
Data Subject Access Requests ,
Duty to Delete ,
Minors ,
Notice Requirements ,
Personal Information ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Proposed Regulation ,
State Attorneys General ,
Verification Requirements