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Florida and Texas Businesses Must Comply With Updated Privacy Regulations Effective July 2024

If you are a business operating in the Sunshine and/or Lonestar state, then this alert is for you. As discussed further below, Florida recently issued regulations, effective July 18, 2024, clarifying certain requirements set...more

Is Your Business Prepared to Comply With Rhode Island's Comprehensive Privacy Law?

Rhode Island is the latest state to enact consumer privacy legislation. The Rhode Island Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (the "Act"), which passed into law on June 28, 2024, establishes a framework for controlling and...more

3 New State Privacy Regulations Take Effect on July 1, 2024, With Federal Legislation Still on the Horizon: Are You Ready to...

With state privacy laws continuing to increase, will the federal American Privacy Rights Act be adopted? Over 18 states have now enacted comprehensive state privacy laws, three of which go into effect on July 1, 2024, in...more

What Could New York’s Two Child Privacy Protection Bills Mean for Businesses?

On June 7, 2024, the New York state legislature passed two bills aimed at increasing the protection of children in an ever-changing digital world. Titled the New York Child Data Protection Act (CDPA) and the Stop Addictive...more

Q&A: How Businesses Must Comply with New Kentucky and Nebraska Privacy Laws

Kentucky - On April 4, 2024, Kentucky joined the growing number of states to enact data privacy legislation, becoming the third state to do so in 2024 and the fifteenth state overall at the time of enactment....more

Maryland Legislature Passes Comprehensive Data Privacy Bill

On April 6, 2024, Maryland's legislature passed a comprehensive privacy bill, the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), and sent it to the state's governor for signature. If enacted, the law would take effect on October...more

California Regulators Win Their Appeal to Enforce the CCPA Revised Regulations as of July 1, 2023

For companies that slow-tracked their California compliance activities because of the tentative March 29, 2024 effective date due to the pending appeal on the regulation enforcement timeline, it is now time to prioritize...more

Q&A: Four State Data Privacy Compliance Insights for 2024

With the first month of 2024 now behind us, it is time for organizations to start seriously considering key comprehensive state data privacy compliance obligations for 2024. In total, seven states passed data privacy laws...more

How Ancient Wisdom Can Help Illuminate Data Privacy Compliance For Both Newcomers and Hold-Outs

Augustus Caesar once said, "if you want a rainbow, you have to deal with the rain." Presumably, this was said—in Latin—after he overhauled all aspects of ancient Roman life. Thousands of years later, the same sentiment holds...more

Balancing Privacy, Innovation, and the Needs of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Personal privacy is important. Some of us need at least a couple of hours of it every day just to function. However, too much privacy can also be harmful because, at its core, privacy means isolation. As the American writer...more

Get Ready for a Comprehensive U.S. Data Privacy and Protection Law at the Federal Level…Maybe

After years of inaction and watching other Western nations—and even some not so Western Nations, e.g., China—enact data privacy and protection laws, it appears the United States (U.S.) may finally be getting into the game....more

A Cautionary Tale Involving a Business, a Privacy Policy, and an Email

Accidents happen, but so can negligence. When you combine negligence with a violation of one or more statutes and a constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy, the consequences can and should be dire. That is what the...more

Proposed Federal "Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability Act"

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) recently reintroduced a comprehensive federal privacy bill entitled the Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability...more

Privacy Bill Essentials: Ohio Personal Privacy Act

A new data protection and privacy bill (HB 376) was recently introduced in Ohio. The Ohio Personal Privacy Act (OPPA) is similar to recent legislative enactments in California, Virginia, and Colorado, but of the three, this...more

Privacy Bill Essentials: Pennsylvania Consumer Data Privacy Act (HB 1126)

A new data protection and privacy bill (HB 1126) was recently introduced in Pennsylvania. Although not as robust as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the proposed Consumer Data Privacy Act (the Act) would similarly...more

Iowa Becomes the Latest State to Adopt the NAIC Model Cybersecurity Law

On April 30, 2021, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law the Iowa Insurance Data Security Act, making Iowa the latest state to adopt the National Association of Insurance Commissioner's model cybersecurity law. Effective...more

Privacy Bill Essentials: Proposed Federal Consumer Data Privacy and Security Act

On April 29, 2021, Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas reintroduced a comprehensive federal privacy bill entitled the Consumer Data Privacy and Security Act (the Act). The Act integrates themes from the CCPA and GDPR and provides...more

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