On November 22, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) formally proposed new regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Although the CCPA itself and previous CCPA regulations largely...more
Employers had a big win in late June 2023 when a trial court in Sacramento enjoined until March 29, 2024, enforcement of the final regulations under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the only one of 14 recently...more
2/21/2024
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Cybersecurity ,
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Information Governance ,
Personal Data ,
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Regulatory Requirements
With the governor’s signing of New Jersey’s privacy law on January 16, 2024, New Jersey became the 14th U.S. state to pass a comprehensive data protection law. This accelerating legislative trend may have employment counsel...more
Multinationals with employees in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) continue to confront a November 30 deadline to implement China’s new cross-border data transfer mechanism—the Standard Contract. This implementation...more
U.S.-based multinationals with employees in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are confronting a November 30 deadline to implement China’s new cross-border data transfer mechanism—the Standard Contract. This implementation...more
9/25/2023
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Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
International Data Transfers ,
Multinationals ,
Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular
At long last, the European Commission, on June 4, 2021, adopted new Standard Contractual Clauses (“new SCCs”) to permit lawful transfers of personal data from the European Union (EU) to third countries such as the United...more
Less than a year after the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect, California’s electorate approved a ballot measure that will substantially expand the privacy obligations the CCPA imposes on employers. On...more
11/6/2020
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California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data-Sharing ,
Information Governance ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
State and Local Government
California’s governor may soon sign into law a one-year delay of the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (CCPA) full application to human resources data. On August 28, 2020, California’s legislature passed A.B. 1281, which...more
9/4/2020
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
CPREA ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Exemptions ,
Information Governance ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
State and Local Government
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), on July 16, 2020, invalidated the European Union-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (“Privacy Shield”), which more than 5,300 U.S. organizations had relied on to lawfully...more
7/21/2020
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Cybersecurity ,
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Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
As mega-breaches heighten concern about the security of personal information and a federal solution does not appear forthcoming, New York recently joined the growing list of states imposing their own security obligations on...more
8/27/2019
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Data Breach ,
Data Management ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Information Technology ,
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Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
Security Standards ,
SHIELD Act ,
State and Local Government ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes
Effective May 30, 2017, Japan amended its omnibus data protection law, the Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”), to add new compliance requirements that will have an immediate impact on many U.S. multinational...more
7/6/2017
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Data Protection ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Information Technology ,
International Data Transfers ,
Japan ,
Multinationals ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PIPA ,
Popular ,
Small Business
Recent, highly publicized data security incidents highlight the continued vulnerability of corporate information systems. Notably, employees who fall prey to sophisticated phishing e-mails and other scams often contribute to...more
5/19/2017
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Confidentiality Agreements ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Email ,
Employee Training ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
Risk Management
With new and sophisticated schemes perpetrated by hackers and scammers, and sensitive personal information becoming increasingly accessible to numerous insiders, it is only a matter of time before most employers will be...more
4/25/2017
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hackers ,
New Legislation ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes ,
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With over 680 security breaches reported so far in 2016, more employers are being forced to confront the issue of how to respond to a breach. All states except Alabama, North Dakota and New Mexico now require notification...more
It is not a matter of "if" but "when" an employer will be required to notify employees of a security breach. Forty-seven states require employers to notify employees when defined categories of personal information, including...more
11/4/2015
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Breach Notification Rule ,
Compliance ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hackers ,
Healthcare ,
Multistate Corporations ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Privacy Laws ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Social Security Numbers
In a landmark decision that will dramatically affect thousands of U.S. companies that transfer personal data from the European Union ("EU") to the United States, the European Union Court of Justice ("ECJ") yesterday...more
10/7/2015
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Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Transfers ,
Enforcement Guidance ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Multinationals ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
PRISM Program ,
Safe Harbors ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
With the advent of new rules regulating the protection of personal data, companies with operations in Colombia must implement policies and practices to comply with Colombia’s privacy law. In October 2012, Colombia enacted...more
On December 28, 2012, Michigan joined California,1 Illinois,2 and Maryland3 in enacting a social media password protection law when Governor Rick Snyder signed the "Internet Privacy Protection Act" (IPPA or the "Act"). In an...more