On May 31, 2024, Colorado enacted H.B. 24-1130, an amendment to the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) regarding the use of biometric information (the “Biometric Amendment”). The Biometric Amendment, effective July 1, 2025, requires...more
Multinational employers operating in China have been waiting since September 2023 for the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) to finalize proposed revisions to its complex and burdensome rules for cross-border data...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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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
Following on the heels of the launch of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) this summer, the U.S. Department of Commerce has extended the DPF to cover transfers of personal data from the United Kingdom (UK) (and...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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Personally Identifiable Information ,
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As of July 17, 2023, U.S.-based multinational employers that can access the personal data of their workforce members in the European Union (EU) via a human resources information system (HRIS), or otherwise transfer the...more
7/20/2023
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Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
After months of uncertainty, the rulemaking process for the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the first-ever comprehensive U.S. data privacy law applicable to human resources data (“HR Data”), concluded on March 29,...more
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A. Artificial Intelligence Arrives in Everyday Life – The Release of ChatGPT -
Generative AI, which is a type of artificial intelligence that can produce or create new content, has already started to...more
This is the fifth in a series of articles about the implications of the California Privacy Rights Act for employers.
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which goes into effect January 1, 2023, will impose specific...more
This is the second in a series of articles about the implications of the California Privacy Rights Act for employers. -
The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), which goes into effect on January 1, 2023, grants six new...more
9/7/2021
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Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
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This is the first in a series of articles about the implications of the California Privacy Rights Act for employers. -
The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) expands employers’ obligations with respect to the privacy...more
With the enactment of the Colorado Privacy Act on July 7, 2021, Colorado now joins Virginia in transforming the first major state privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), from an outlier into what now appears...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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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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