Minnesota has become the 19th state to pass a comprehensive data privacy law. On May 24, Governor Tim Walz signed into law the Minnesota Consumer Privacy Act (H.F. 4757) (the “MCPA”), which takes effect July 31, 2025....more
California continues to serve as the primary driver of privacy law in the United States, but other state laws now warrant compliance. The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), effective January 1, 2023, amends and extends the...more
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and other new state data privacy laws are set to take effect in 2023. If you needed an incentive to review your compliance obligations, the California Attorney General recently...more
As we watch the televised Russian invasion of Ukraine with horrific destruction and casualties caused by missiles, tanks, and other conventional warfare the hostilities may seem far away and distant. As Russia continues to...more
Facial recognition technology, drones the size of a butterfly, secure microchips replacing magnetic stripes on credit cards, sensors the size of a grain of sand swallowed by patients that transmit data directly to the...more
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The European Union limits the transfer of EU personal data to countries whose privacy regimens are not deemed “adequate,” like the United States. American companies have tended to rely upon Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC)...more
As if 2020 has not been bad enough, the world is now reacting to an unprecedented data security breach. Your company should convene its cybersecurity incident response team to survey the landscape, and determine whether you...more
Compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), a first of its kind commercial privacy law, has been a top business priority since June 2018. With the ink barely dry on the California Attorney General’s...more
What Happened? On July 16, 2020, in Schrems II, the EU Court of Justice invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield mechanism. The EU Court of Justice struck down a similar program, the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor, in 2015....more
What Happened? On July 16, 2020, in Schrems II, the EU Court of Justice, invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield mechanism. The over 5,000 companies that self-certified for Privacy Shield with the U.S. Commerce Department may...more
Just a few months ago, compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (the CCPA) was at the top of many businesses’ priority lists for 2020. With the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses put privacy compliance and the CCPA...more
As businesses have been forced to close their brick-and-mortar stores and we are all practicing safe distancing, COVID-19 has already had a significant impact on how we conduct business by causing more people to work remotely...more
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has prompted a rush by many organizations to a remote working environment. This alert outlines key security considerations for remote work, plus some resources....more
The first post-California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) data breach class action was filed on February 3 in the Northern District of California. See Barnes v. Hanna Andersson, LLC , N.D. Cal., Case No. 20-cv-00812....more