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DOJ Issues Final Rule on Bulk Sensitive Personal Data

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On January 8, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) published in the Federal Register a Final Rule, "Preventing Access to U.S. Sensitive Personal Data and Government Related Data by Countries of Concern or Covered Persons,"...more

Alston & Bird

Top Ten Takeaways from California AG’s Healthcare AI Advisory

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On January 13, 2025, California Attorney General (“AG”) Rob Bonda issued an advisory describing providers’ and businesses’ obligations related to the development, sale, and use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and automated...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Do App Permissions Satisfy Requirements for Valid Consent for the Purpose of GDPR?

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App permissions do not satisfy the requirements for valid consent for the purpose of GDPR because they lack sufficient detail and granularity, according to the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)....more

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CFPB Seeks Public Input on Privacy and Data Practices in Consumer Finance

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gather insights on how companies offering financial products and services collect, use, and monetize consumer payment and personal...more

Jones Day

Understanding DORA: Digital Operational Resilience Act Now in Effect for Financial Entities and ICT Service Providers

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DORA, the first EU regulation designed to establish a unified and robust digital resilience standard for the financial sector, becomes directly applicable on January 17, 2025, introducing significant penalties and...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

The Year Ahead in Artificial Intelligence

2025 is set to see an even greater level of activity in the AI governance space. Colorado will not be the only state with a comprehensive AI law by the time 2025 comes to a close. ...more

Hogan Lovells

Slew of OCR activity underscores agency’s focus on security and AI

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Recent enforcement actions, audit activity, proposed rulemakings, and guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) highlight the agency’s focus on health data...more

Cooley LLP

CFPB Explores Options for Bringing Digital Payments Providers Under Privacy and Payments Laws

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On January 10, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) initiated rulemaking processes to examine and create a framework regarding data privacy and consumer protections in the digital payments industry. In a...more

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CNIL 2025-2028 strategic plan: AI, Minors, Mobile Apps & Cybersecurity

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Anticipating enforcement priorities of regulators may partly rely on their long-term trajectory and domestic dynamics, which differ from a country to another. This action plan reflects CNIL’s ambition (i) to be appointed by...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

California Attorney General Issues Two Advisories Summarizing Law Applicable to AI

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If you are looking for a high-level summary of California laws regulating artificial intelligence (AI), check out the two legal advisories issued by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. The first advisory is directed at...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

[Webinar] Second Annual Data Privacy Forum: Exploring State Laws and Beyond (Private Sector) - January 30th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET

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As new state data privacy laws continue to emerge and existing ones evolve, businesses face increasing complexity in maintaining compliance. Our Second Annual Data Privacy Forum focuses on key state privacy laws and explores...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

FTC Finalizes Changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule

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The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) finalized changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) Rule today, making the first updates to the Rule since 2013. In January 2024, the FTC proposed changes to the...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Businesses Have 30 Days to Report a Security Breach of New Yorker’s Private Information

New York State Governor Hochul recently gave us a “pre” New Year’s gift: effective on December 21, 2024, any individuals or businesses possessing the “private information” of New Yorkers must notify them, and certain state...more

Vedder Price

New Requirements for Employee Personnel Record Review Now in Effect in Illinois

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The new year brought new requirements under the Illinois Personnel Record Review Act (“IPRRA”), 820 ILCS 40/1 et seq., that expand the types of personnel documents that employees can inspect and require employers to obtain a...more

Ankura

Enhancing Cross-Border e-Discovery and Data Breach Investigations with AI

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Today’s interconnected world presents significant challenges for managing cross-border e-discovery and data breach investigations. These processes—critical for legal proceedings and cybersecurity—are often complicated by...more

Morgan Lewis

HHS Proposes Security Rule Update: What Group Health Plans Need to Know

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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 6, 2025 issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) seeking feedback on proposed updates to the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

FTC Finalizes Changes to Children's Privacy Rule

On January 16, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release confirming that it has finalized changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule). These changes will set new requirements...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

New Year, New State Data Privacy Laws

With the advent of a new year comes a new set of consumer data privacy laws in the United States. Five new state data privacy laws go into effect in January 2025, with additional laws coming throughout 2025 and into 2026....more

Dechert LLP

Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 68

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DOJ Final Rule: New US Restrictions on Nearly All Foreign Access to Personal Data - The National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice has issued a sweeping final rule that would prevent access to...more

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Recent Developments in Health Care Cybersecurity and Oversight: 2024 Wrap Up and 2025 Outlook

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As Cyberattacks targeting the health care sector have continued to intensify over the past year, including ransomware attacks that have resulted in major data breaches impacting health care organizations, the protection of...more

Jones Day

Justice Department Issues Final Rule on Bulk Transfers of Sensitive Personal Data to Certain Countries

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The final rule establishes prohibitions and restrictions on the transfer of certain data due to national security risks from specified countries of concern....more

A&O Shearman

EDPB publishes opinion on personal data processing relating to AI model development

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On December 17 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued Opinion 28/2024 addressing data protection aspects of processing in the context of AI models. This Opinion was requested by the Irish Data Protection...more

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China Clarifies Privacy and Data Security Requirements in Network Data Security Management Regulations

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The Regulations, which took effect on January 1, 2025, reiterate and clarify existing requirements and introduce new ones on privacy and network data security....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Introducing Bradley’s Series on HHS’s Proposed HIPAA Security Rule Updates

Bradley is launching a multipart blog series on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed changes to strengthen cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health information (ePHI) regulated...more

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Year in Review: The Top Ten US Data Privacy Developments from 2024

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2024 was another year of substantial legislative and regulatory advances at the international, federal, and state levels with regard to data protection law. Artificial intelligence (AI) regulation continued to hurdle forward...more

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