On January 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued its final rule to implement Executive Order 14117 aimed at preventing access to Americans' bulk sensitive personal data and government-related data by...more
4/16/2025
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With 2025 right around the corner, eight additional U.S. state privacy laws will go into effect, joining California, Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia...more
In the latest iteration of privacy claims, California plaintiffs have begun filing lawsuits against online retailers using online tracking technologies to collect IP addresses under a new theory—plaintiffs allege such...more
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On Thursday, June 13, 2024, Vermont’s Governor Phil Scott vetoed the Vermont Data Privacy Act (H.121) (“VTDPA”), potentially delaying what has been hailed as one of the most robust consumer data privacy laws in the nation....more
We’re halfway through 2024. Are you wondering what you need to think about for your privacy program in the rest of 2024? At the federal level, at the time of this alert, the American Privacy Rights Act remains at the...more
Connecticut’s privacy law takes effect on July 1, with some key changes after the governor signed Senate Bill 3 on June 26. Some portions of the amendments concerning newly defined “consumer health law” will have immediate...more
This article amends our prior article on new US state omnibus privacy laws coming in 2023: January 1: the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (which amends the existing CCPA) (CPRA) and the Virginia Consumer Data...more
New omnibus privacy laws are coming to Virginia, Colorado, and Utah in 2023. Updates to California’s existing privacy law are coming in 2023 too....more
Utah has just become the fourth state to pass an omnibus consumer privacy law. The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”) was signed into law on March 24, 2022.
UCPA is modeled after Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act...more
As noted in our intro alert for this series, new omnibus privacy laws are coming to Virginia and Colorado and California’s existing comprehensive privacy law has been further modified by the CPRA. Don’t wait to implement your...more
Florida and California join a growing minority of states enacting laws protecting a person’s genetic information (Nevada and Alaska also have laws). Florida’s new genetic privacy law, known as Protecting DNA Privacy Act, went...more