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CPRA Qualifies for November Ballot in California

The California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (“CPRA”) - the latest ballot initiative spearheaded by Alastair MacTaggart and his group Californians for Consumer Privacy - has qualified for the November 3, 2020 ballot,...more

California AG Finalizes CCPA Regulations as CPRA Looms

On June 1st, the California Attorney General (“California AG”) submitted final regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to California’s Office of Administrative Law (“OAL”) for approval, along with an...more

California AG Further Revises Modified CCPA Regulations

On March 12, 2020, the California Attorney General (“California AG”) released a second set of modified regulations (“Second Set of Modifications”) for the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) that further revise the...more

California Attorney General Publishes Revisions to Proposed CCPA Regulations

On February 7, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (the California AG) proposed revisions to the regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that his office had first proposed on October...more

State Legislatures Make Privacy a Priority as 2020 Sessions Begin

As state legislatures begin their 2020 sessions, proposals for stronger privacy laws are at the top of the agenda across the country. Carrying forward the story we told in reports in February, April, and July of last year,...more

Privacy Legislation Trends Connected Car Cos. Should Watch

The automobile industry has been racing full speed ahead in recent years on its quest for increased connectivity and automation, but it may soon find itself swept up in the wave of privacy and data security laws and...more

Senate Commerce Committee Holds Hearing on Federal Privacy Legislation

As many businesses occupy themselves with coming into compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) before the law’s effective date of January 1, 2020, Congress is renewing discussion of a possible comprehensive...more

California Attorney General Publishes Long-Awaited Proposed Regulations Implementing the CCPA

On October 10, 2019, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra proposed regulations and issued an explanatory statement, “Initial Statement of Reasons,” aimed at clarifying the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act...more

While Congressional Action Stalls, States Continue To Advance Privacy Legislation

Since our reports on February 20, 2019 and April 30, 2019, no states have followed California in adopting comprehensive privacy legislation but three states have enacted targeted privacy laws. In May Nevada enacted a law...more

UK ICO Report Scrutinizes Adtech Industry, Focusing on Real-Time Bidding Systems, Threatens Sweep in Six Months

In recent months, the Office of the Information Commissioner of the UK (“ICO”) has been looking into how personal data is used in real time bidding (“RTB”) in programmatic advertising, involving key stakeholders, including in...more

New FTC Data Security Order Shows Trend in Increased Accountability for Data Security Post-Order

On June 12, 2019 Lightyear Dealer Technologies LLC, a company that provides data storage for many of the nation’s largest auto dealers, stipulated to an Order with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) resulting from a 2016 data...more

Privacy and Data Security Alert: Privacy Legislation Continues To Move Forward in Many States

Since our February 20, 2019 report on privacy bills moving through state legislatures around the country, four new bills modeled on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have been introduced—in Connecticut, New York,...more

Senate Subcommittee Considers Small Business Perspectives on a Federal Data Privacy Framework

Continuing Congress’s consideration of possible comprehensive federal privacy legislation, the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Manufacturing, Trade, and Consumer Protection held a hearing on March 26, 2019 on...more

Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on GDPR and CCPA

Continuing Congress’s efforts to craft comprehensive federal privacy legislation, the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 12, 2019, held a hearing on “GDPR & CCPA: Opt-ins, Consumer Control, and the Impact on Competition and...more

Congressional Committees Hold Hearings on Federal Privacy Legislation

This week both the House and Senate held hearings kicking off the legislative process for federal privacy legislation. Legislators from both parties voiced support for comprehensive and bipartisan legislation. ...more

States Consider Privacy Legislation in the Wake of California’s Consumer Privacy Act

The enactment in June 2018 of California’s sweeping new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), has both increased momentum for enactment of a general federal privacy law and spurred state legislatures to...more

Congress Begins Consideration of Comprehensive Federal Privacy Legislation

The enactment in June 2018 of California’s sweeping new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), has both increased momentum for enactment of a general federal privacy law and spurred state legislatures to...more

The European Data Protection Board’s Second Report on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

The European Data protection Board (“EDPB”), which is composed of representatives of the national data protection authorities, and the European Data Protection Supervisor, adopted its report on the second annual review of the...more

Monitoring Mobility - The Current and Future Regulatory Landscape for Advanced Automotive Tech

This is the fourth article in a series of five articles written by WilmerHale lawyers discussing how the emergence of IoT technologies will impact the automotive industry. The first article, ‘‘The Developing Landscape of...more

Senate Commerce Committee Holds Second Hearing on Consumer Data Privacy, the GDPR and CCPA; Consumer Privacy Advocates Back Robust...

On October 10, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation conducted a hearing titled “Consumer Privacy: Examining Lessons From the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the California...more

National Institute of Standards and Technology Launches Development of Privacy Framework

On September 4, 2018, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that it “has launched a collaborative project to develop a voluntary privacy framework to help organizations...more

India Considers Stringent New Personal Data Privacy Law

The Indian government is currently considering a sweeping data privacy law which, if enacted, would mean significant changes for foreign companies doing business in the world’s fastest-growing digital economy. The Personal...more

California Enacts Sweeping Consumer Privacy Law

On June 28, 2018, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), a sweeping privacy law that provides consumers with broad notice, access, and deletion rights concerning many types of personal...more

Eleventh Circuit Concludes FTC Data Security Order Unenforceable Because Standards Not Specific Enough

On June 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated a cease-and-desist order by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued against LabMD, Inc. (LabMD) arising from an FTC enforcement action alleging that...more

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