California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), State and Local Government, Cybersecurity

Regulation of AI Systems is Already Here – Look to Data Protection Laws

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 6/5/2023

As the scramble continues to reckon with the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT, Bard, DALL-E, and MidJourney, and the promise of other AI and machine learning systems (for simplicity,...more

The BR Privacy & Security Download: May 2022

Blank Rome LLP on 5/5/2022

STATE & LOCAL LAWS & REGULATIONS - Connecticut Passes Comprehensive Privacy Bill - The Connecticut Legislature has become the fifth state in the United States to pass a comprehensive privacy law....more

California Passes Suite of New Privacy Laws

Ballard Spahr LLP on 10/22/2021

California continues to be at the vanguard of privacy protection. On October 11, 2021 California’s Governor Newsom signed several bills addressing privacy and data security. These new laws go into effect January 1, 2022 and...more

Soltani Appointed as Inaugural California Privacy Protection Agency Executive Director

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 10/7/2021

During last month’s California Privacy Protection Agency Board (CPPA) meeting, the only substantive agenda item, addressed in closed session, was a discussion of two key appointments: the first Executive Director and a Chief...more

California Attorney General Mandates CCPA-Covered Businesses Honor the Global Privacy Control and Announces Update on CCPA...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 7/27/2021

Recently, the Office of the Attorney General of California announced three major updates that 1) added to the California Consumer Privacy Act's (CCPA) opt-out rules related to the sale of personal information, 2) made it...more

State of US State Comprehensive Privacy Laws

Burns & Levinson LLP on 7/7/2021

Following the lead of California and then Virginia, Colorado recently became the third U.S. state to pass a comprehensive law providing its residents with personal data privacy rights. While there is significant overlap...more

Status Of Proposed CCPA-Like State Privacy Legislation As Of June 7, 2021

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/7/2021

Keypoint: This week the Colorado legislature continued to advance the Colorado Privacy Act, and the Nevada Governor signed into law a bill that will broaden the state’s pre-existing right to opt out of sales as of October 1,...more

Florida Gone Wild: Back-to-Back “Breaking News” on Privacy Law Leads to No News

Burns & Levinson LLP on 5/12/2021

Breaking news out of Florida: On April 21, 2021, the Florida House, in a near unanimous vote, passed the Florida Privacy Protection Act (FPPA). Largely modeled after the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the FPPA would...more

Status Of Proposed CCPA-Like State Privacy Legislation As Of April 26, 2021

Husch Blackwell LLP on 4/26/2021

Keypoint: There were a number of developments this week: Florida’s House passed HB 969, the Washington Privacy Act officially died, Alaska’s HB 159 received a public hearing, and the Arizona legislature closed without passing...more

Status Of Proposed CCPA-Like State Privacy Legislation As Of April 5, 2021

Husch Blackwell LLP on 4/5/2021

Keypoint: It was another busy week with developments in Washington, Florida, Oklahoma, Alaska, Nevada, and Rhode Island. For the sixth week in a row, we are providing an update on the status of proposed CCPA-like privacy...more

Virginia’s New Law Continues America’s Patchwork Approach To Data Privacy Regulation

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth on 3/18/2021

With the California Consumer Privacy Act in 2018 (CCPA), and the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), California has dared Congress, twice, to pass sorely needed federal privacy legislation. Now Virginia is in on...more

Status Of Proposed CCPA-Like State Privacy Legislation As Of March 15, 2021

Husch Blackwell LLP on 3/15/2021

Keypoint: There were four notable developments this week: the Florida House passed a bill out of committee, lawmakers proposed a new bill in Texas, the Washington Privacy Act was scheduled for a public hearing and committee...more

From Coast to Coast: Virginia Passes First Consumer Data Protection Act Since the CCPA

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/4/2021

Following in the footsteps of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the Commonwealth of Virginia has become the second U.S. state to enact comprehensive consumer data protection legislation. ...more

Governor Signs Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act

Woods Rogers on 3/3/2021

Elizabeth Burgin Waller Principal John Pilch Cybersecurity/Privacy Analyst The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA, or “the Act”) makes Virginia the second state in the nation to have sweeping data privacy...more

Five Ways To Improve Florida’s Proposed Privacy Law

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 2/24/2021

The Florida Legislature is considering a comprehensive privacy law (HB 969) that would fundamentally change the landscape of how/whether companies do business in Florida. The bill is largely a “cut-and-paste” of the...more

Florida's New Privacy Bill Promises Big Changes

Carlton Fields on 2/22/2021

Florida recently joined a small but growing number of states considering sweeping reforms to their data privacy and protection laws. House bill 969, titled “Consumer Data Privacy,” in many ways mirrors the California Consumer...more

Virginia Set to Enact Broad Data Privacy Law, Second in US After California: What It Means for Businesses

Morgan Lewis on 2/19/2021

Virginia is on track to become the second state in the United States to pass a comprehensive data privacy law after the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) quickly passed both houses of Virginia’s state legislature...more

California’s Consumer Privacy Rights Act: Opt-Out Rights and Data Profiling

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/29/2021

With the passage of the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), we are presenting several blog articles on different topics related to the new law. We previously wrote about key effective dates and the newly-added definition of...more

Dismissal Of Marriott Data Breach Lawsuit Shows How Plaintiffs Still Face Standing Hurdles In The Post-CCPA Era

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth on 1/28/2021

After the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect on January 1, 2020, a surge of class action lawsuits predicated on alleged CCPA violations hit businesses. Because of the act’s novelty, it was unclear whether...more

The Year To Come In U.S. Privacy & Cybersecurity Law (2021)

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/28/2021

On January 28, 2021, privacy professionals around the world will celebrate Data Privacy Day. This year, we decided to mark the occasion by gathering our team’s thoughts and expectations on what we expect to be the biggest...more

California’s Privacy Rights Act: Expanding and Clarifying the CCPA

Burr & Forman on 1/27/2021

WHAT MATTERS? Is your organization ready for California’s latest privacy rights law, enacted at the end of 2020 – the CPRA? This article addresses some key considerations to help you determine whether your organization may be...more

A Year Later: CCPA Compliance Reminder to Review Your Privacy Policy

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/14/2021

Has it been a year already? Many businesses diligently made sure they did their best to hit the moving CCPA target as they welcomed 2020 and the effective date of the statute last year. A year ago, all we had were draft...more

Hanna Andersson and Salesforce Receive Preliminary Approval for Settlement of CCPA-Based Class Action Litigation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/6/2021

In 2019, Hanna Andersson, a children’s apparel store, suffered a data breach while using a Salesforce e-commerce platform. As a result of the breach, customers filed a class action lawsuit, alleging customer data was stolen...more

Cybersecurity 2021 – The Year in Preview: Emerging Issues in Cannabis and Privacy

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 12/30/2020

Editors’ Note: This is the second in our fifth-annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity in the coming year. Read our previous post on Energy. Though the final results of the...more

California Privacy Rights Act: Compliance Objectives for 2021

Carlton Fields on 12/22/2020

While California has been characterized by some of the nation’s most long-standing and aggressive privacy laws, businesses operating in the state have faced uncertainty over the last three years as to what a final omnibus...more

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