Alongside California and Colorado, Utah has emerged as one of the most active states in regulating the deployment and use of artificial intelligence ("AI"). Diverging from Colorado's approach, Utah first enacted laws in 2024...more
On June 7, 2024, the New York Legislature passed two bills to protect children online. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act, S7694A, prohibits social media platforms from providing defined "addictive...more
6/27/2024
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On May 25, 2024, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (the "Act"), which takes effect on July 31, 2025, for most controllers and on July 31, 2029, for certain postsecondary educational...more
6/5/2024
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On May 17, 2024, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed SB 361/HB 707 amending the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act ("VCDPA") to provide heightened protections to consumers under 18 years of age, not just those under...more
6/3/2024
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Oregon becomes the 12th state with a comprehensive consumer data privacy law -
The Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA) became law on July 18, 2023. Oregon is the twelfth state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy...more
7/20/2023
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The Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR) was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis on June 6, 2023, making Florida the tenth state to enact a consumer data privacy law along with California, Virginia, Colorado,...more
6/9/2023
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On May 18, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a policy statement warning that the proliferation of technologies that use or claim to use biometric information may bring risks with regard to consumer privacy and...more
6/2/2023
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INCDPA takes business-friendly approach to data privacy, following Virginia, Utah, and Iowa -
Indiana has become the seventh state to enact a "comprehensive" data privacy law, joining California, Virginia, Colorado,...more
With the unanimous passage of Senate File 262 by the Iowa House and Senate and the Governor's signature Tuesday, the Hawkeye State joins California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah as one of six states with a...more
3/31/2023
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On August 29, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it had filed a complaint in Idaho federal district court against Kochava Inc., a data broker, seeking injunctive relief on account of alleged violations of...more
The California Privacy Protection Agency Board (the "CPPA Board") announced on May 27, 2022, that it would hold a public meeting on June 8 to discuss, among other things, a set of detailed proposed regulations to "Implement,...more
6/6/2022
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The California Office of Attorney General (OAG) on March 10, 2022, issued its first opinion interpreting the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), addressing when businesses must disclose internally generated "inferences"...more
Algorithmic disgorgement is back in the spotlight at the FTC, this time in connection with a recently announced settlement with WW International, Inc., formerly known as Weight Watchers (WW), and a subsidiary called Kurbo,...more
On July 7, Colorado became the third state to enact comprehensive data privacy legislation, following California and Virginia. The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), modeled largely after its predecessor in Virginia (the Consumer...more
Last week, Alaska joined the growing number of states considering comprehensive consumer privacy legislation when, at the behest of Governor Dunleavy, the Consumer Data Privacy Act was introduced in both chambers of the...more
Virginia's legislature has set the stage for the Commonwealth to join California as one of two states with comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) pulls certain policy...more
2/23/2021
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As expected, Californians voted on November 3, 2020, to adopt the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), better known as Proposition 24. The CPRA amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in subtle and significant ways...more
On the last day of its session, the California legislature passed six bills amending the CCPA, which Governor Newsom is expected to sign into law. ...more
On September 13, the California legislature passed six bills that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Governor Gavin Newsom has one month to decide whether to sign them into law. ...more
9/26/2019
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The Privacy Oracle consolidates significant US legislative and regulatory developments at the state and federal level into a single publication. In this month’s issue, we offer:
- An analysis of bills introduced in the 116th...more
4/29/2019
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