California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Data Privacy, Personally Identifiable Information

Do Dark Patterns Lurk on Your Website? 4 Steps Businesses Should Take as Regulators Focus on How Privacy Rights Are Presented on...

Fisher Phillips on 9/10/2024

Businesses with a website beware: California regulators just warned that the law prohibits your website from making website users jump through hoops or otherwise confusing them as they try to exercise their privacy rights,...more

Privacy Data Mapping: How to Map Sensitive Data & PII

Osano on 8/14/2024

Sprawling. That’s one way to describe the nature of data and responsibilities in modern organizations. There’s a lot of personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive data to track, and knowing what lives where so...more

California Agency Provides Insights into CCPA Enforcement Priorities: 3 Tips for Staying Off the Enforcement Radar

Fisher Phillips on 8/2/2024

A recent board meeting of state officials revealed that the California agency responsible for overseeing the state’s landmark consumer privacy law received over 2,000 complaints for alleged violations in the past year alone –...more

Understanding Breach Notification Obligations Under California Law: What Does the CCPA Require? - Dear Mary – Incidents +...

Troutman Pepper on 7/17/2024

‘Dear Mary,’ is Troutman Pepper’s Incidents + Investigations team’s advice column. Here, you will find Mary’s answers to questions about anything and everything cyber-related – data breaches, forensic investigations, how to...more

California AG Continues Privacy Enforcement: Tilting Point Media Settles for Alleged COPPA and CCPA Violations

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 6/28/2024

In an ongoing effort to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the California Attorney General's Office (CAG) announced a recent settlement against Tilting...more

From Song Beverly to CIPA: Wave of Privacy Litigation in California Targets IP Addresses

Clark Hill PLC on 6/21/2024

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a unique identifier assigned to a device that is connected to a computer network. In the internet ecosystem, the IP allows a network host to communicate with a network participant and...more

How Much Data is Too Much? 4 Steps Businesses Should Take as California Focuses On Data Minimization Requirements

Fisher Phillips on 4/15/2024

Businesses take heed: California state officials just warned that the law prohibits you from collecting unnecessary data and retaining data for longer than necessary. The California Privacy Protection Agency published its...more

California Privacy Protection Agency Issues First-Ever Enforcement Advisory

WilmerHale on 4/11/2024

On April 2, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA or “the Agency”) issued the Agency’s first-ever enforcement advisory. The advisory (“Applying Data Minimization to Consumer Requests”) reaffirms data minimization as...more

Privacy Versus Cyber – What is the Bigger Risk?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/11/2024

“Cybersecurity” has emerged as one of top risks facing organizations. Considering the steady stream of massive data breaches affecting millions (sometimes billions), the debilitating effects of ransomware on an organization’s...more

Year in Review: 2023 Data Protection Litigation Trends

WilmerHale on 3/21/2024

2023 was an active year for data protection-related litigation. Plaintiffs continued to advance creative theories of liability against businesses, using both older and more established privacy laws (such as the Telephone...more

California Appeals Court Moves Up Enforcement Date for Latest CCPA Regulations

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 2/14/2024

On February 9, 2024, the California Third District Court of Appeals in Sacramento overturned a lower court order that postponed enforcement of the California Privacy Protection Agency’s (CPPA) newest rules. The decision...more

Breaking News: California Can Immediately Enforce CCPA Regulations – Your 7-Step Plan for Data Privacy Compliance

Fisher Phillips on 2/13/2024

A California appeals court just pressed fast-forward and ruled that the state can immediately begin enforcing new regulations governing the state’s cornerstone data privacy law instead of waiting until late next month. This...more

Pressure-Testing Your Privacy Program for 2024

BCLP on 1/5/2024

With the onslaught of new privacy legislation and cyber threats coupled with upticks in enforcement, running a well-functioning and flexible privacy program is now, more than ever, a critical component of an organization’s...more

The Return of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA)

Proskauer - Minding Your Business on 10/2/2023

This year has seen a tremendous spike in the number of cases alleging violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), 18 U.S.C. § 2710, a statute enacted in 1988 in response to the Washington City Paper’s publication...more

Why Your Website Needs A Privacy Policy

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC on 9/28/2023

In this day and age, data privacy is a hot topic. Many Americans believe their personal data is less secure now than ever and that data collection poses more risks than benefits. For this reason, among others, businesses must...more

The best data retention policy template to get you started (Updated)

Onna Technologies, Inc. on 8/14/2023

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in October 2020 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. They say more is better. And that’s true in many cases, but not when we’re talking about a stockpile...more

The California Attorney General and the California Privacy Protection Agency Are Accelerating Enforcement on CCPA/CPRA...

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/27/2023

California businesses, including employers, who have not already complied with their statutory data privacy obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA),...more

California Employers Beware: Your 5-Step Plan as Attorney General Announces CCPA Investigative Sweep

Fisher Phillips on 7/20/2023

California employers, beware: the state’s top prosecutor just announced his office is conducting an investigative sweep of whether and how large California employers have complied with data privacy and consumer protection...more

The FTC Sets Its Sights on Biometric Information

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 7/7/2023

Does your business collect or use fingerprints? Do your building access points use retina, finger, or palm scans? Does your security office use facial recognition technology to identify repeated trespassers? Do your phone...more

Are You Ready for the 3Cs?: California, Colorado, and Connecticut’s New Privacy Laws Become Enforceable July 1, 2023

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 6/29/2023

On July 1, 2023, the Colorado Privacy Act (ColoPA) and Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) will go into effect, joining California and Virginia, whose data privacy laws are already in effect. Notably, while the California...more

[Webinar] Coming Soon to a State Near You: New Privacy Laws and Evolving Best Practices - May 24th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

McDermott Will & Emery on 5/15/2023

On July 1, 2023, two more state privacy laws will take effect. The new laws in Colorado and Connecticut will impose requirements that extend beyond the rules in California and Virginia that took effect earlier this year. July...more

American Data Privacy and Protection Act

King & Spalding on 4/4/2023

Although longtime advocates of federal privacy legislation have learned through experience not to hold their breath, this month brought reason for renewed optimism as House representatives and stakeholders reaffirmed strong...more

I Always Feel Like AI Is Watching Me: Artificial Intelligence and Privacy

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 3/15/2023

ChatGPT got the early press, and every day we learn of new generative artificial intelligence products that can create new and creative visual and text responses to human input. Following on ChatGPT’s fame, Google’s Bard and...more

The New Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC on 3/7/2023

Last year, Virginia became the second state (after California) to enact a consumer privacy law. That law, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), went into effect on January 1, 2023....more

A measured approach | US Cybersecurity and Data Privacy review and update: Looking back on our 2022 articles to help navigate 2023

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 3/3/2023

The year 2023 will continue to have cybersecurity and data privacy front of mind for General Counsels. With sweeping new US and global laws and regulations coming online and the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)...more

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