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Data Privacy for the Future: Strategies to Limit Digital Risk and Liability

J.S. Held on 1/30/2025

Your perspectives and perceptions towards a problem drive your approach to solving that problem. Managing data privacy challenges are no different. Therefore, to address today’s issues, it is a worthwhile exercise to review...more

Data Privacy Day Checklist: Top 10 ways to protect your organization's data

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 1/27/2025

Tomorrow is International Data Privacy Day, so a happy day to all! More seriously, data privacy concerns and legislation continue to rapidly increase. It has been estimated that by the end of 2024 more than 75 percent of...more

The 5 Things Every Business Needs to Know About the Modern Consumer Privacy Landscape

Fisher Phillips on 11/13/2024

It’s no longer good enough for your business to have a reactive approach to consumer privacy – you need a proactive strategy to manage compliance, foster consumer trust, and stay competitive in this modern era. While many...more

Is AI Putting Your Organization at Risk?

Lathrop GPM on 9/16/2024

AI tools often drive efficiency and save money, but they have drawbacks. Here’s what to know....more

Cookie Cutter: NY AG Announces Cookie Scrutiny with Business Guide to Website Privacy Controls

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP on 8/6/2024

Website privacy controls—in the form of banners and pop-ups asking visitors to agree to, or reject, a website’s use of cookies, pixels, and similar technologies used to track their behavior—are becoming ubiquitous. In the...more

More Proposed Regulations from California: What Do These Mean for Your Business?

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI... on 7/30/2024

What Issues Did the California Privacy Protection Agency Raise? On July 16, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) discussed proposed updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations....more

Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation Unveiled in Congress

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/16/2024

On April 7, House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) announced a bipartisan, bicameral draft of comprehensive data privacy legislation,...more

Year in Review: 2023 Web Tracking Litigation and Enforcement

WilmerHale on 2/5/2024

This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. 2023 saw a rise in class action litigation related to internet tracking technology employed by companies to enhance user...more

Annual Updates to Privacy Policies Reminder and Looking Ahead to 2024

Wiley Rein LLP on 12/14/2023

The end of the year is a good time to revisit your organization’s privacy policy to ensure it is accurate and up to date. Notably, at least one state privacy law – the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) – requires that a...more

Forget Spy Balloons - The Bigger Threat is TikTok

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 3/24/2023

After the downing of the Chinese spy balloon by U.S. Forces in early February 2023, several additional objects have been identified over U.S. and Canadian airspace. While officials have denied that these were additional spy...more

A Recap of U.S. Data Privacy Laws Taking Effect in 2023

NAVEX on 1/20/2023

Last year was a busy one for data privacy legislation across the United States, and with many states’ consumer data privacy laws in effect this year, now is the time to reassess where more changes may be needed in order to...more

Deadline to Update New EU Standard Contractual Clauses Is Approaching

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 9/8/2022

As you may recall from our previous advisory, "The European Commission Implements New Standard Contractual Clauses", existing data sharing contracts that include the old standard contractual clauses ("SCCs") will only remain...more

Going Once, Going Twice, Sold: Real Time Bidding Data Privacy Breach

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 7/11/2022

The ongoing massive data breach in the world of advertising: real time bidding ("RTB"). You likely are, or have been, a target of RTB without your knowledge. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties ("ICCL") found that the...more

FTC Uses Enforcement Proceeding to Send Message on Account Security Practices

Wiley Rein LLP on 7/1/2022

Account security and digital identity have been hot topics for regulators and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The government has been promoting multifactor authentication (MFA) and innovation in...more

Data Privacy Part 1: The New Currency Businesses Should Protect and Here's How

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 4/4/2022

Data is king in today's digital economy. The estimated net worth of this global data market is forecast to hit nearly $235 billion by 2026, meaning collecting and sharing personal information is big business. ...more

A Cautionary Tale Involving a Business, a Privacy Policy, and an Email

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI... on 8/13/2021

Accidents happen, but so can negligence. When you combine negligence with a violation of one or more statutes and a constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy, the consequences can and should be dire. That is what the...more

Proposed Federal "Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability Act"

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI... on 8/9/2021

U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) recently reintroduced a comprehensive federal privacy bill entitled the Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability...more

CCPA Reporting Deadline Reminder

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 7/1/2021

If your business is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and your business handles (in any manner set forth in the CCPA) the personal information of 10,000,000 or more California residents in a calendar...more

Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act of 2021

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI... on 6/25/2021

Intending to strengthen the privacy of consumers’ online data, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), John Kennedy (R-LA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Richard Burr (R-NC) have reintroduced the Social Media Privacy Protection and...more

CF on Cyber: An Update on the Florida Security of Communications Act (FSCA)

Carlton Fields on 6/14/2021

Since the beginning of 2021, more than two dozen class action cases have been filed in Florida state court under Florida's Security of Communications Act. The act has, in some form, been on the books for more than 50 years....more

Key Privacy/Data Security Takeaways: Senate Commerce Committee’s FTC Hearing

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/30/2021

On Tuesday, April 20, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) authority to protect consumers. The hearing featured discussion from lawmakers on the...more

Update Your Privacy Policy Now to Avoid Costly Penalties

Lowndes on 4/5/2021

Sweeping consumer privacy law changes are moving quickly through the Florida legislature. Covered private businesses should act now to bring their privacy policies into compliance with the anticipated new requirements....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

New State Data Privacy Requirements Continue to Pile On: Virginia Is on the Verge of Passing Its Own Consumer Data Protection Act

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 3/3/2021

California is no longer the lone state with a consumer data privacy law. Virginia is now on the verge of joining, pending a formal reconciliation between the Virginia House and Senate versions, as well as the governor’s...more

The CCPA Is Live for Enforcement—Is Your Website in Compliance?

Hanzo on 11/23/2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—the most comprehensive personal data privacy legislation anywhere in the United States so far—is officially being enforced. Is your website in compliance? Does it need to be? What...more

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