For many, responding to an incident feels chaotic — questions swirling, uncertainties piling up, and no clear direction. Even when prepared with a well-rehearsed incident response plan, a data security incident places a...more
California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta has made clear that California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement is going to be a priority for the AG’s office. On Friday, the California AG’s office announced a $1.2 million...more
8/31/2022
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Disclosure ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Policy ,
Settlement ,
State and Local Government ,
State Attorneys General
At last count, at least 39 states have introduced (or passed) comprehensive privacy legislation. After what was previously a watch-and-wait game of legislative whack-a-mole, we are now seeing this legislation get passed and...more
As part of Bradley’s continuing coverage of the North Carolina Sandbox Act, we wanted to know what community members and NC fintech aficionados thought about this proposed legislation. We posed six questions to Tariq Bokhari,...more
8/4/2021
/ Banking Sector ,
Blockchain ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Emerging Technology Companies ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Insurance Industry ,
NGOs ,
North Carolina ,
Popular ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Stakeholder Engagement ,
Startups ,
State and Local Government
Technology is evolving and advancing at a dizzying pace across the globe. Emerging technologies are reimagining everything from how we interact with each other to how we interact with businesses and institutions. Given the...more
7/20/2021
/ Cybersecurity ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Innovation ,
North Carolina ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Provisional Waiver Applications ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
State and Local Government ,
Technology Sector
Virginia is primed to become the next U.S. state to pass comprehensive data-privacy legislation with striking similarities to the California Consumers Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and the...more
2/8/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Consent ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Enforcement Actions ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personal Data ,
State and Local Government ,
State Legislatures ,
State Privacy Laws
Has it been a year already? Many businesses diligently made sure they did their best to hit the moving CCPA target as they welcomed 2020 and the effective date of the statute last year. A year ago, all we had were draft...more
1/14/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Online Platforms ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
State and Local Government
California voters signaled that privacy is a top priority by overwhelmingly approving Proposition 24 on Nov. 3, 2020—the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The CPRA amends and significantly strengthens the recently enacted...more
12/17/2020
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Compliance ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Small Business ,
State and Local Government ,
Third-Party Service Provider
In a roller coaster of an election week, it was easy for smaller ballot measures to become overshadowed. One ballot measure that you may have missed is Massachusetts’s Ballot Question 1 regarding the “right to repair” motor...more
Back in March we wrote about Address Confidentiality Programs (ACPs) as the “high stakes compliance risk you probably haven’t heard of.” These state-sponsored programs were traditionally designed to protect victims of crimes...more
9/30/2020
/ Compliance ,
Contact Tracing ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cyber Threats ,
Data Collection ,
Data Security ,
Domestic Violence ,
Executive Orders ,
Governor Newsom ,
Harassment ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Human Trafficking ,
Public Health ,
Sexual Assault ,
State and Local Government
On July 15, 2020, the state of Virginia adopted the first of its kind COVID-19 workplace safety mandate. Propelled by months of inaction from a federal agency tasked with nationwide enforcement of workplace safety relating to...more
As most people started to wind down for the July 4th holiday week, California was just ramping up its “as California goes” focus on data privacy. On June 28, 2018, California passed a comprehensive data privacy bill that has...more
7/5/2018
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Rights ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
GLBA Privacy ,
Governor Brown ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
New Legislation ,
Notice Requirements ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Portability ,
State and Local Government ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes
On March 1, 2018, the Alabama Senate unanimously passed the Alabama Data Breach Notification Act of 2018 (SB 318). On March 22, 2018, the House of Representatives, following an amendment by the Technology and Research...more
Last week, federal and state lawmakers took significant steps toward specific regulations targeting digital financial technology, mobile banking and cybersecurity, signaling the possibility of wholesale changes to the legal...more
9/21/2016
/ Banking Sector ,
Blockchain ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Digital Currency ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Popular ,
State and Local Government ,
Technology