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Five New State Privacy Laws Effective January 2025

Starting January 2025, five state privacy laws will take effect, providing consumer privacy rights to a new swath of individuals across the country. Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, and New Hampshire’s laws will go into effect on...more

Are You Ready for Eight More Privacy Laws in 2025?

As state-level privacy laws continue to expand in the absence of federal legislation, businesses must prepare to meet a growing patchwork of requirements or risk penalties and reputational harm. In 2025, eight additional...more

Maryland and Nebraska Pass Consumer Data Privacy Laws, and Maryland Adds a Kids Code

The United States privacy landscape becomes more cluttered by the week. While most of the legal media is focusing on federal legislation coming out of Washington, the most significant privacy development in the United States...more

Spring 2024 – What Privacy Professionals Need to Know and Do Now in the U.S. – Part III

This year is proving to be just as an important year for privacy professionals as 2023. In our third installment of what privacy pros should know, we provide you with some highlights about the following important developments...more

Recent Decision from the California Third District Court of Appeals Sparks Potential Enforcement of Privacy Regulations

The California Privacy Protection Agency (the “Agency”) may start enforcing privacy regulations according to a recent decision from the California Third District Court of Appeal. The privacy regulations at issue stem from the...more

Exemptions Abound in New Jersey’s New Consumer Privacy Bill

You may be feeling overwhelmed with the thought of having to comply with yet another state privacy law. However, New Jersey’s privacy bill is chock-full of significant exemptions that may ease your organization’s compliance...more

Colorado Department of Law Issues Universal Opt-Out Shortlist Under the Colorado Privacy Act – What to Do Next

The Colorado Department of Law has published its Universal Opt-Out Shortlist under the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”). This is eagerly awaited guidance for organizations who are subject to the CPA as the guidance provides...more

Companies Deploying Facial Recognition Continue to be Watched; Rite Aid Banned from Using AI Facial Recognition

On December 19, 2023, Rite Aid Corporation (Rite Aid) agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it failed to take reasonable measures to prevent harm to consumers from its use of facial recognition...more

Vendor Management from a U.S. Data Privacy Perspective

Given the increasing number of data privacy laws in the U.S., entering into appropriate data processing agreements (“DPAs”) with vendors has now become a critical component of vendor management. It can also be one of the most...more

A U.S. Data Privacy Law Update: Data Transfers, Delayed CCPA Regulatory Enforcement, and Data Privacy Laws Galore!

The pace of privacy developments in 2023 has been breathtaking. Since our recent alert regarding Iowa’s comprehensive data privacy law and Colorado’s finalized rules, there have been a number of key developments in data...more

Iowa Passes a New Privacy Law While Colorado Finalizes Its Privacy Regulations

On March 28, 2023, Iowa became the sixth state to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law. If the thought of having to comply with yet another state privacy law is causing a sense of panic, fret not. Iowa’s bill is largely...more

Kilpatrick Townsend’s U.S. Privacy Law Guide: Introduction to State Regulations

While there is no comprehensive, federal United States law governing privacy, there are several major state laws that are currently in place. To help our clients assess their compliance posture, we have published a quick,...more

Countdown to 2023: Privacy Compliance Checklist for The End of The Year

In January of 2022, we recommended adding “updating privacy contracts” to your list of New Year’s resolutions. With 2023 around the corner and a number of new privacy laws and regulations going into effect, we have another...more

CCPA Financial Penalties: Four Takeaways from the California AG’s $1.2 Million Enforcement Action that Should Inform Your...

We warned you last summer that California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) enforcement was heating up! The California Attorney General (“CAG”) announced a settlement with cosmetics retailer, Sephora. That, among other penalties,...more

Summer 2022 – What Privacy Professionals Need to Know and Do Now – Part II

In our second installment of what privacy professionals should know before they start the summer, we provide you with highlights from the draft regulations from the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) and...more

Summer 2022 – What Privacy Professionals Need to Know and Do Now – Part I

It’s been a blazing hot summer and privacy professionals have been sweating to keep up with all of the updates from the last few months. We all knew this was going to be a busy year with updating European data transfer...more

Mystic Privacy: Connecticut's New Law Makes it Clearer

Connecticut’s new privacy law, an Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring, also known as the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (“CTDPA”), generally continues the pattern of non-California states enacting...more

5 KEY TAKEAWAYS: Building a Strategic Privacy Program

The responsibilities of privacy professionals continue to grow while resources are increasingly difficult to procure. At the Privacy + Security Forum, the deeply experienced panel of privacy professionals consisting of Ami...more

CCPA Enforcement is Picking Up. Are you Ready?

Although the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) has been in effect since January 1, 2020 and subject to enforcement since July 1, 2020, it seemed until recently that compliance had been somewhat spotty. Well, it’s time...more

Don’t Sell Privacy Compliance Short; Why Now is the Time to Double- Check How Your Company Handles Consumers’ Opt-Out of Sale...

Most privacy eyes are currently focused on the new EU Model Clauses and forthcoming U.S. state laws that take effect in 2023. As the summer heats up, however, compliance professionals should look to the western U.S. states of...more

Colorado’s New Comprehensive Privacy Law: a Downhill Effort for the For-Profit Sector. But, Non-Profits, Welcome to the Slopes!

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and Virginia’s Data Protection Act (“CDPA”) have created a snowball effect, encouraging Colorado to be the third state to enact comprehensive data privacy legislation. On July 7,...more

Cross-Border Data Transfers: Spain's Data Protection Authority Imposes Its Largest Fine

On March 11, 2021, the Spanish Data Protection Authority (“AEPD”), imposed the regulator’s largest ever fine, totaling €8.15 million ($9.378 million), upon Vodafone España, S.A.U (“Vodafone”), a telephone operator, for...more

Virginia Can No Longer Say Whom Its for Without Consent Thanks to Its New Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law

Virginia knocked off California’s crown as the only U.S. state to have a comprehensive, general consumer privacy law when Governor Ralph Northam signed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“CDPA”) into law on March 2,...more

CCPA 2.0: California Privacy Laws Continue to Take Center Stage

On November 3, 2020, California voters passed Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The provision’s timeline is important to consider. The law would become effective on January 1, 2023 with enforcement...more

Privacy Talk | The New Swiss Data Protection Act [Video]

A discussion between Kilpatrick Townsend Partner Amanda Witt and Nicole Beranek Zanon, founding partner of de la cruz Beranek Rechtsanwälte AG, on the new Swiss Data Protection Act and its impact for U.S. clients....more

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