In February 2025, the Virginia legislature passed a bill governing high risk artificial intelligence. On March 24, 2025, Governor Youngkin vetoed the bill. If enacted, the bill, titled the High-Risk Artificial Intelligence...more
4/3/2025
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Colorado ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Executive Orders ,
Governor Vetoes ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Technology ,
Technology Sector ,
Virginia
On May 24, 2024, Minnesota’s governor signed the 18th comprehensive state privacy law since California enacted the first comprehensive data privacy legislation in 2018. The Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (“MCDPA”) will...more
7/10/2024
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Acts ,
Legislative Agendas ,
New Legislation ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Acts ,
Privacy Laws ,
Privacy Policy ,
State and Local Government ,
State Legislatures ,
State Privacy Laws
On June 30, 2023, a court in Sacramento issued an order enjoining enforcement of the implementing regulations promulgated by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) under the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020...more
On August 11, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a circular (Circular 2022-04 or, the “Circular”) addressing whether insufficient data and information security practices can violate the prohibition...more
Utah recently became the fourth state in the United States, after California, Virginia and Colorado, to pass comprehensive privacy legislation. The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (the “UCPA”), passed by the Utah legislature as...more
On October 10, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that the long-awaited proposed regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) are available for public comment. Although the...more
11/1/2019
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Comment Period ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
Notice Requirements ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Privacy Policy ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Public Comment ,
Request For Information ,
Verification Requirements
As anticipated, on July 26, 2019, New York’s governor signed into law the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) discussed in our recap of US data breach laws enacted in the first half of 2019. The...more
A few weeks ago, Texas signed into law an amendment to its data breach law, capping off a busy first half of 2019 for state lawmakers in this arena. As we gear up for the second half of 2019, we thought a recap was...more
7/2/2019
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Consumer Reporting Agencies ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Storage ,
Identity Theft ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
New Legislation ,
Notice Requirements ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PIPA ,
Popular ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes ,
Websites
On January 25th, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously held that actual harm was not a necessary component of proving a breach of the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act. This ruling found that Stacy Rosenbach, the...more
1/28/2019
/ Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Fingerprints ,
IL Supreme Court ,
Injury-in-Fact ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action
On Friday, March 23, 2018, Congress passed a 2,232 page omnibus spending bill. Included in the bill was a bipartisan act known as the “Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act” or CLOUD Act, which will allow United States...more
3/28/2018
/ Cloud Storage ,
Cross-Border ,
Data Storage Providers ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Fourth Amendment ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Government Investigations ,
Pending Legislation ,
Popular ,
Search & Seizure ,
Stored Communications Act
Did you know that if you’ve taken a New York City taxi since 2009, your pick-up and drop-off locations were recorded and published (through June of 2016) on the internet for anyone to find? Now, New York City officials want...more
2/2/2017
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Data Collection ,
Data Mining ,
Data Privacy ,
Geolocation ,
Location Data ,
Lyft ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Ridesharing ,
Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) ,
Taxi Cabs ,
Uber
Good information governance requires not only protecting the security of sensitive and proprietary information; it often requires pursuing legal action against those who threaten the secrecy and value of a company’s trade...more
7/6/2016
/ Asset Seizure ,
Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) ,
Employment Contract ,
Ex Parte ,
Immunity ,
Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine ,
Information Governance ,
Misappropriation ,
Preemption ,
Private Right of Action ,
Trade Secrets ,
Uniform Trade Secrets Acts ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies
On May 4, 2015, Facebook introduced Internet.org Platform, an open program for developers to create services that integrate with Internet.org. However, many privacy advocates have deemed the Internet.org Platform to be a...more