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Proposed HIPAA Security Rule Updates May Significantly Impact Covered Entities and Business Associates

As we noted in our previous blog here, on January 6, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing substantial revisions...more

California’s AI Revolution: Proposed CPPA Regulations Target Automated Decision Making

On November 8, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “Agency” or the “CPPA”) Board met to discuss and commence formal rulemaking on several regulatory subjects, including California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)...more

Proposed Modernization of the HIPAA Security Rules

The HIPAA Security Rule was originally promulgated over 20 years ago. While it historically provided an important regulatory floor for securing electronic protected health information, the Security Rule’s lack of...more

Recent Developments in Health Care Cybersecurity and Oversight: 2024 Wrap Up and 2025 Outlook

As Cyberattacks targeting the health care sector have continued to intensify over the past year, including ransomware attacks that have resulted in major data breaches impacting health care organizations, the protection of...more

New Jersey Passes Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law

On January 16, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Senate Bill No. 332, “An Act concerning online services, consumers, and personal data” (“SB 332”).  New Jersey is the fourteenth state to pass a...more

New Jersey Becomes Most Recent State to Sign a Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law

On January 16, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Senate Bill No. 332, “An Act concerning online services, consumers, and personal data” (“SB 332”).  New Jersey is the fourteenth state to pass a...more

#WorkforceWednesday: California's Upcoming Cyber Audit and Automated Tech Rules - Employment Law This Week® [Video]

This week, we’re breaking down the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board’s new regulations impacting employers: Last month, the CPPA Board met to discuss several new regulations that could impact employers in...more

The California Attorney General and the California Privacy Protection Agency Are Accelerating Enforcement on CCPA/CPRA...

California businesses, including employers, who have not already complied with their statutory data privacy obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA),...more

#WorkforceWednesday: What Employers Should Know About ChatGPT - Employment Law This Week® [Video]

This week, we’re taking a closer look at ChatGPT, exploring the opportunities and risks associated with this artificial intelligence (AI) technology, and providing valuable insights for employers who are looking to stay ahead...more

California Privacy Protection Agency Board Adopts and Approves CCPA Regulations and Discusses Preliminary Rulemaking for...

The California Privacy Protection Agency Board (the “Board”) held a public meeting on February 3, 2023, adopting and approving the current set of draft rules (the “Draft Rules”), which implement and clarify the California...more

No More Exceptions: What to Do When the California Privacy Exemptions for Employee, Applicant and B2B Data Expire on January 1,...

California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) give consumers substantial rights regarding the disclosure and use of their personal information collected by businesses subject to the...more

No More Exceptions: What to Do When the California Privacy Exemptions for Employee, Applicant and B2B Data Expire

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) gives consumers increasingly more control over their personal information when collected by businesses subject to the law. We have...more

A Recently-Released “Discussion Draft” of the “American Data Privacy and Protection Act” Provides Insight Into Recent Bipartisan...

As reported in a June 3, 2022 press release from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Senator Roger Wicker released a “discussion draft” of a federal data...more

FTC Warns That Health Apps May Be Subject to the Health Breach Notification Rule

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently issued guidance clarifying protections applicable to consumers’ sensitive personal data increasingly collected by so-called “health apps.” The FTC press release indicated it has...more

Updates on Biometrics in the Workplace: Scanning the Legal Landscape in New York and Beyond

As businesses find useful new ways to harness the evolving technology that captures and analyzes human biometric data, legal regulation of such technology’s usage is also developing, responding to concerns about personal...more

“NAME:WRECK” Cybersecurity Vulnerability Highlights Importance of Newly Issued IoT Act

A recently discovered security vulnerability potentially affecting at least 100 million Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices[1] highlights the importance of the newly enacted IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 (the “IoT...more

New Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Law’s Far Reaching Impacts

Enacted on December 4, 2020, the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 (the “IoT Act”) is expected to dramatically improve the cybersecurity of the ubiquitous IoT devices.[1] With IoT devices on track to...more

Businesses Should Begin Assessing Their Data Practices in Order to Meet The California Privacy Rights Act Requirements

In our previous blog, we featured the California Privacy Rights Act’s Enhanced Cybersecurity Safeguards. We now highlight significant privacy safeguards under the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) that will require...more

Organizations Should Plan in 2021 to Comply with The California Privacy Rights Act’s Enhanced Cybersecurity Safeguards

The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) leaps forward on cybersecurity by amending the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to impose enhanced protections. The CPRA enhancements apply to “for profit” companies and...more

#WorkforceWednesday: Extended Remote Work, Return-to-Work Manager Training, Case to Watch - Employment Law This Week®  [Video]

It’s #WorkforceWednesday! This week we’re focusing on the long-term operations plans employers are putting in place due to COVID-19, whether it is utilizing extended remote work models or training their managers on return to...more

California’s New Consumer Privacy Act: What Employers Need to Know

California continues to lead the way on privacy and cybersecurity legislation with the enactment on June 28, 2018, of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“Privacy Act” or “Act”). The Privacy Act joins other California laws...more

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