On February 28, 2024, President Biden announced that he was issuing an Executive Order (the "EO") directing the promulgation of regulations to limit the dissemination of "bulk sensitive personal data" and "United States...more
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On February 2, 2024, representatives from the European Union (EU) member states formally approved the final text of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (the Act), which will be subject to final legislative approval in the...more
Senate Bill 6281, the "Washington Privacy Act" (the "Act") passed the Washington State Senate on February 14, 2020. A House committee approved an amended version of the Senate bill on March 2, 2020, which now moves to the...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
A few weeks ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the D.C. Circuit for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc of its ruling in American Federation of Government Employees v. OPM, 928 F.3d 42 (D.C. Cir 2019), decided last...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
Last week produced a spate of interesting and instructive privacy and data security enforcement activity. ...more
On May 7, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed new legislation that updates and expands the breach notification obligations of businesses that maintain the personal information of Washington citizens. The new provisions had...more
What a difference a year makes.
In early 2018, the biggest concern for the consumer-facing online ecosystem was probably the then-impending launch of the GDPR. Today, GDPR compliance seems like the least of our worries....more
On Friday, September 28, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the nation’s first Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity law. Although the new law presents some compliance issues, it does not appear to conflict with...more
On Tuesday, August 1, 2017, a bipartisan group of four Senators from the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus introduced legislation designed to improve the cybersecurity of devices purchased by the U.S. government and – albeit...more
On May 11, 2017, the White House released its long-awaited Executive Order on cybersecurity (EO). The EO directs Executive Branch agencies to develop plans to assess and improve the cybersecurity of their own operations,...more