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Several state attorneys general (AGs) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have begun scrutinizing ancestry tracking company 23andMe following its recent announcement that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As part of...more
Companies continue to face a patchwork of state data privacy laws, federal agencies targeted companies' collection of sensitive consumer information, and a handful of states passed artificial intelligence-related regulation...more
Recent U.S. developments indicate a growing focus on regulating and investigating the data privacy practices of companies in the automotive sector. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently highlighted in a blog post its...more
Consumer privacy protection must have been tops on the New Jersey legislature’s list of New Year’s resolutions. The year was just two weeks old and New Jersey became the first State in 2024 to enact a comprehensive privacy...more
Last year proved to be a big year in data protection with U.S. state data protection laws popping up across the country, the FTC updating its guidance and regulations on everything from data breaches and biometric...more
Keypoint: New Jersey is the thirteenth state to pass consumer data privacy legislation with a bill that is generally based on the Washington Privacy Act model but with some notable differences. On January 8, 2024, the New...more
Efforts to Address the Lack of Federal Data Privacy Legislation in the U.S. Have Continued - The need for federal data privacy legislation was reiterated in the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on...more
The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) became law on June 16, 2023. Texas becomes the 11th state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy law, joining California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Iowa,...more
Below is the twenty-first weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2023. Before we get to our update, we wanted to provide two reminders....more
Keypoint: Last week the Texas legislature passed consumer data privacy, children’s social media, and data broker bills while the Nevada Assembly passed an amended version of its health data privacy bill. ...more
Keypoint: Last week the Florida legislature passed a consumer data privacy bill while the Texas legislature continued to advance both consumer data privacy and data broker bills....more
Editor’s Note: Iowa became the sixth state in the nation to enact a comprehensive privacy law, and California’s latest privacy regulations came into effect. At the federal level, Congress experienced a leak of sensitive...more
Keypoint: Last week chambers in Hawaii, Iowa, and Oklahoma passed consumer privacy bills. Below is the ninth weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2023. Before we get to our update, we wanted...more
The Illinois Supreme Court recently opened the floodgates for class actions under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and created potentially catastrophic exposure for Illinois businesses. In a close 4-3...more
Keypoint: Last week Indiana and Utah lawmakers passed bills through a chamber, Maryland lawmakers filed three sets of bills, lawmakers continued to file children’s privacy and social media regulation bills, and there were...more
Keypoint: The 2023 state legislative session is off to a fast start with state lawmakers introducing consumer data privacy bills in eight states and numerous bills on biometric information, children’s privacy, health data...more
While many organizations are focusing their attention on compliance with the state consumer privacy laws becoming effective in 2023, they should keep in mind that the Texas Attorney General has now filed two cases in 2022...more
The metaverse will bring many benefits, but it is also likely to multiply and compound privacy issues, particularly given its global nature. With the advent of the commercial internet in the 1990s, organizations were...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
Keypoint: This week the Delaware House passed a data broker bill, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act was sent to the Governor, Louisiana scheduled a hearing on its bill, and the Hawaii legislature closed without passing a bill....more
Keypoint: This week the Connecticut legislature passed a consumer data privacy bill. Below is our sixteenth weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2022. Before we get to our update, we wanted...more
Keypoint: This week the Connecticut Senate passed a consumer data privacy bill. Below is our fifteenth weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2022. ...more
Keypoint: This week a new bill was introduced in Michigan; the Connecticut bill passed a second committee; Maryland and Kentucky legislatures adjourned without passing bills; Virginia Governor Youngkin signed three VCDPA...more
Keypoint: This week there were hearings on bills in Maryland, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the Oklahoma bill was assigned to the same committee where a similar bill died last year....more
Keypoint: This week the Utah Governor signed the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, the Oklahoma House passed a bill, and a committee hearing was held in Rhode Island. Below is our eleventh weekly update on the status of proposed...more