A Look at Recent Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Initiatives Concerning Privacy and Data Security
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The rule imposes substantial new diligence, reporting, cybersecurity, and auditing obligations on companies. On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a final rule implementing Executive Order...more
Key Points - On Sunday, April 7, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) struck a deal on a comprehensive federal bill, the...more
On February 28, 2024, President Biden signed Executive Order (EO) 14117 titled “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern.” On March 5,...more
President Biden issued an Executive Order last month calling on the DOJ and relevant government agencies to tighten regulations on bulk data transfers to “countries of concern.” In late February, President Biden issued...more
CYBERSECURITY - CISA, FBI + MS-ISAC Issue Warning on Phobos Ransomware - To help organizations protect against ransomware, CISA, the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released a...more
On February 28, 2024, President Joe Biden issued Executive Order (“EO”) 14117, empowering the Department of Justice (DOJ) to regulate the export of certain consumer data, in order to prevent certain countries’ governments...more
On October 19, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) with respect to a new consumer financial data portability rule mandated by Section 1033 of the...more
Welcome to Holland & Knight's monthly data privacy and security news update that includes the latest in policy, regulatory updates and other significant developments. ...more
On November 1, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted PrivacyCon 2022, its seventh annual conference in which the Commission looks to academics and researchers to inform its efforts to address emerging consumer...more
Pelosi Statement Dims the Lights on ADPPA - The prospects for the nation’s first comprehensive data privacy law, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (the “ADPPA” or the “Bill”), dimmed after House Speaker Nancy...more
The FTC recently published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to discuss harms associated with the collection, processing, and selling of personal data...more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we review the FTC’s proposed data privacy and cybersecurity rulemaking and the European Data Protection Board’s draft guidelines on the calculation of GDPR administrative fines....more
On August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (the FTC or the Commission) published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to request public comment on the prevalence of “commercial surveillance and data security...more