California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Pending Legislation

California Greenlights Two Significant AI Bills

WilmerHale on 9/16/2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic in state legislatures across the country over the past year. As is common with technology-related issues, California has taken the lead in regulating the AI space. The...more

California Looks to Amend Data Broker Law

WilmerHale on 9/1/2023

The state of California is on the verge of amending its current data broker law with Senate Bill 362, also known as the Delete Act (“the Act”). The Act passed in the Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection and...more

Top 5 Takeaways from CPPA Meeting on July 14, 2023

BakerHostetler on 7/24/2023

On Friday, July 14, 2023, on the heels of the California Attorney General’s (AG) announcement seeking information from California employers on their compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California...more

Washington State Imposes Far-Reaching Privacy Obligations for Consumer Health Data

Holland & Knight LLP on 5/3/2023

The Washington My Health My Data Act (the MHMD Act) was signed into law on April 27, 2023, creating new restrictions on the collection and disclosure of "consumer health data" by companies in Washington or that is related to...more

Indiana To Be Next in Passing Consumer Privacy Statute

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/17/2023

The Indiana Legislature is poised to pass Senate Bill 5, a comprehensive privacy statute (the “Act”), and send it on to the Governor. Once signed, the Act will become operative on January 1, 2026, and make Indiana the seventh...more

Will Employers Have More Obligations Beyond the CCPA if these California Privacy Bills Pass?

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 6/1/2022

California employers have navigated the ever-changing privacy landscape when it comes to employee and personnel personal information (“human resources data”). For years, California employers’ obligations were narrow in scope...more

Trends in Privacy Laws Around the U.S.: A Look at the Pending N.C. Consumer Privacy Act

Cranfill Sumner LLP on 5/11/2022

Data privacy legislation has picked up steam across the nation in recent years. California, Colorado, and Virginia are among many states that have recently passed data privacy laws. Many other states, including North...more

Comparison of the CCPA & CPRA with Pending 2021 Comprehensive Federal Privacy Legislation – S. 2134

BCLP on 3/8/2022

In the last year, we continued to see a shift in the privacy landscape of the United States, including the passage of comprehensive privacy legislation in both Virginia and Colorado, while other states still have bills under...more

CPRA Rulemaking Explained and CPRA Amendments Push Forward, Including Employee and Business-to-Business Exemptions

BakerHostetler on 2/24/2022

On Feb. 18, Chairperson Jennifer Urban of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) addressed the California state bar and clarified the announcements that were made during the CPPA board meeting on Feb. 17. Read on for...more

Colorado Poised to Become Third State With a Comprehensive Privacy Law, Joining California and Virginia

WilmerHale on 6/9/2021

On June 7, 2021, the Colorado House of Representatives passed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), a comprehensive privacy law similar to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as well...more

Silver Medal in Consumer Privacy Race Goes to … Virginia?

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/5/2021

Virginia seemingly came out of nowhere on the consumer privacy front and now appears to be just days away from becoming the second state in the nation, behind California, to pass comprehensive consumer privacy legislation....more

Virginia Set to Become Second State to Pass a Comprehensive Privacy Law

WilmerHale on 2/5/2021

The long wait to see if any state would join California in passing a comprehensive privacy law is finally coming to an end, as the Virginia Senate passed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) on February 3. An...more

Implications of CCPA and CPRA on Clinical Trial Data

BCLP on 10/21/2020

Given the recent updates to CCPA, and the possible approval of California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) which is on the November 3 ballot, it is increasingly likely that personal information collected in the course of clinical...more

California Bill Extends CCPA Exemptions for Personal Information Collected by Employers and Businesses

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/5/2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) currently exempts from its provisions certain information collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the person acting as a job applicant, employee,...more

California Bills Would Expand and Clarify Consumers' Privacy Rights Regarding Health Information

Holland & Knight LLP on 9/25/2020

Two bills related to personal privacy have been passed by the California State Legislature and are awaiting signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom: the Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) and a bill that amends the California...more

The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) Headed To The November 2020 Ballot

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/30/2020

As we recently reported, the privacy-right activist group that sponsored the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) – Californians for Consumer Privacy – is pushing for an even more stringent privacy bill, the California...more

CCPA 2.0? The California Privacy Rights Act Is On November Ballot

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 6/29/2020

The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) has received enough signatures to qualify for the November 2020 ballot in California. Based on preliminary polling, many expect voters to approve it. If approved, substantive...more

California Privacy Compliance Obligations May Soon Change Under CPRA Ballot Initiative

Hogan Lovells on 5/27/2020

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is progressing through California’s elections process for inclusion on the November 2020 ballot. Businesses may want to begin considering how their data privacy obligations in...more

Legislative Update: Privacy Bills Not Immune to COVID-19 As Legislative Efforts Persist and Evolve

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 5/26/2020

Today, we are all facing a public health crisis unlike any other we have seen in our lifetime. In addition to serious consequences to global health, the COVID-19 pandemic has created significant disruption in the legal system...more

Washington State Legislature Takes Another Shot At a Consumer Data Privacy Law

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 1/23/2020

Following an unsuccessful attempt last year at passing a comprehensive data privacy bill, the Washington State Legislature is hoping the second time’s the charm. Senate Bill 6281, this session’s updated version of The...more

State Legislature Hears Concerns About Proposed Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Bill

Pierce Atwood LLP on 10/14/2019

On October 7, 2019, the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure held a hearing on pending legislation, including An Act Relative to Consumer Data Privacy (S.120). Modeled on the California Consumer...more

California Legislature Passes Nation's Second 'Data Broker Registration' Law

Troutman Pepper on 10/4/2019

In addition to the various amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) passed by the California Legislature on September 13, the legislature also passed Assembly Bill 1202 (AB 1202). AB 1202 requires “data...more

California Consumer Privacy Act Amendments Head to Gov. Newsom's Desk

Holland & Knight LLP on 9/25/2019

Five bills to amend California's landmark privacy legislation, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), passed the California State Legislature last week and now head to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk. ...more

What To Do About Employees Under CCPA: An Update

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 9/19/2019

One of the amendments we’ve been watching over the past months is one that impacts rights of employees -both the company’s and other company’s employees. Under AB25, which passed the California Senate and is now awaiting...more

California Legislature Passes Six Amendments to the CCPA, But Passes the Buck on Many of the Statute's Problems

BCLP on 9/18/2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") was put together quickly (in approximately one week) as a political compromise to preempt a proposed privacy ballot initiative that contained a number of problematic provisions. ...more

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