Last fall, California voters approved Proposition 24, thereby enacting the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). As DWT noted the day after the election, "CPRA amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in...more
Governor Jay Inslee signed (with a partial veto) S.B. 6280 on March 31, 2020, establishing new statutory regulations on the use of facial recognition technology by state and local government agencies. ...more
As the 2020 legislative session begins, Washington State looks like Ground Zero for privacy bills....more
The CCPA (as recently amended) takes effect on January 1, 2020. As is well known, the law imposes a wide range of disclosure and other operational obligations on businesses that collect, use, or sell consumers’ “personal...more
There was widespread sentiment six months ago that 2019 was the year when Congress would finally pass a comprehensive federal privacy law. There were several grounds for this view....more
On May 22, 2018, Vermont’s first-in-the-nation law imposing disclosure and data security obligations on data brokers (H.764) went into effect was enacted. Calls for legislation to regulate data brokers are not new – at the...more