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2023 brought a surge of data privacy developments, with a large expansion of state comprehensive privacy laws, litigation of new claims based on older laws (e.g. wiretapping and VPPA cases), increased scrutiny on data...more
Welcome to this month's issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice....more
2023 is shaping up to be a landmark year for data privacy, on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, four new state laws go into effect – two on July 1 – while California is expanding its already robust requirements, and...more
Utah Is the First State to Limit Teens Under 18 From Social Media Access - Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed two bills on March 23 (SB 152 and HB 311) prohibiting children under the age of 18 from using social media between...more
While there is no comprehensive, federal United States law governing privacy, there are several major state laws that are currently in place. To help our clients assess their compliance posture, we have published a quick,...more
The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), enacted in 2008, was one of the first state laws to address commercial collection of biometric data. Biometric data includes an iris scan, a fingerprint, a voiceprint,...more
CYBERSECURITY - Joint Advisory Outlines Attacks by Daixin Team - The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released a Joint Advisory last week warning...more
The Colorado attorney general’s office sent shockwaves throughout the privacy world on September 30, 2022, when it published its proposed Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) draft rules (Draft Rules). The Draft Rules are complex and...more
Keypoint: The CPA draft rules are a complex and lengthy set of regulations that, if adopted without substantial modification, will significantly expand the CPA’s requirements and require controllers to carefully consider...more
As the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) comes into effect on January 1, 2023, the temporary and partial exceptions for employment and business-to-business information will expire, making California the first and only...more
California Privacy Protection Agency Proposes CPRA Regulations as the ADPPA Continues to Advance in Congress - On July 8, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) filed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...more
California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Draft CPRA Regulations - The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) just released proposed California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) regulations. The regulations expand...more
Keypoint: Subject to the Governor’s approval, Connecticut will become the fifth state to pass a broad consumer privacy act with a bill that is comparable to the Colorado Privacy Act....more
Editor’s Note: Utah became the fourth state in the nation to successfully pass a comprehensive privacy bill, following California, Colorado, and Virginia. Meanwhile, seven other states failed at their own attempts, including...more
Keypoint: This week a new bill was introduced in Louisiana; the Maryland work group bill received an unfavorable committee report; the Connecticut bill was referred to a second committee; and California’s biometric privacy...more
In our second California Privacy Update, we continue to closely follow updates in California privacy law, especially those to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Below are the recent updates to the California’s privacy...more
Some members of the California legislature want their state to remain the leader for data privacy and cybersecurity regulation in the U.S. This includes protections for biometric information, similar to those under the...more
Keypoint: The CPRA, CPA, and VCDPA vary in both their definitions of biometric information/data and their compliance obligations. This is the second article in our ten-part weekly series comparing key provisions of the...more
In honor of Data Privacy Day, we provide the following “Top 10 for 2022.” While the list is by no means exhaustive, it does provide some hot topics for organizations to consider in 2022...more
Keypoint: The CPRA, CPA, and VCDPA’s definitions of “publicly available information” are broader than the CCPA’s definition, thereby expanding the types of personal information companies may process outside the confines of...more
To kick off the countdown to World Data Privacy Day, we want to provide businesses, organizations and individuals with a few import reminders going into 2022. With the increase in data privacy laws and enforcement, data...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), considered one of the most expansive U.S. privacy laws to date, went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA placed significant limitations on the collection and sale of a...more
Just as we thought 2022 was going to be significantly different than 2021, December 2021 and January 2022 events have thrown us for another (pandemic) loop. We anticipate that some of the privacy and cybersecurity...more
It is less than one year until California’s landmark privacy law—CPRA—comes into effect. In the meantime, 2020 saw significant changes to California’s existing laws, including the expansion of laws dealing with biometric...more
I had the pleasure of speaking during the Restaurant Technology Network Town Hall about a variety of privacy issues confronting restaurants and food delivery apps, including CCPA, CPRA, CDPA and CPA...more