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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

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

CCPA Reality Check: 10 Key Questions to Evaluate Compliance

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass on 2/28/2020

With the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) in effect as of January 1, but regulations still being revised and finalized, businesses are struggling to know what they need to do now to comply....more

New York Board of Regents Approves Part 121 Regulations Required by Education Law § 2-d

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC on 1/15/2020

January 14, 2020, the Board of Regents formally adopted Part 121 to the Commissioner’s Regulations to implement Education Law § 2-d. The regulation will become effective January 29, 2020. This regulation primarily addresses...more

Move over, CCPA? New York Considers Sweeping Data Privacy Law

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 6/10/2019

New York’s state legislature is considering a new data privacy law that would set the standard for data privacy in the U.S. The New York Privacy Act (the “NYPA” or the “Act”), which is currently being considered by the state...more

Start Aiming Now: The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Is A Moving Target, And GDPR Compliance Isn’t Enough

King & Spalding on 2/14/2019

The CCPA is an unprecedented privacy law that grants California residents sweeping rights concerning the collection and use of their information. Once the law becomes effective on January 1, 2020, covered businesses can...more

All I Want for Christmas…Is a New Privacy Law?

Perkins Coie on 10/26/2018

Beyond preparing for this year’s holiday rush, retailers around the country have started thinking about potential changes to their operations in response to California’s sweeping new consumer privacy law. The California...more

Are You Prepared for the California Consumer Privacy Act? Get Ready for European-Style Privacy in the U.S.

Troutman Pepper Locke on 9/10/2018

With California enacting a sweeping new data privacy law on June 28, now is the time for companies to review and adjust to how the California Consumer Privacy Act will impact their business. The act, which has broad...more

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 8/15/2018

California recently passed and signed into law a privacy bill that provides California consumers with data protections that share key features with the European Union's GDPR. While not nearly as strict or extensive as the...more

California Implements the Most Stringent Privacy Law in the United States: Will Businesses Be Affected?

White and Williams LLP on 7/16/2018

On June 28, 2018, California passed a new privacy law that is one of the most stringent consumer protection privacy laws in the nation. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Act) introduces onerous new requirements and...more

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

Proskauer on Privacy on 7/16/2018

This has been a big year in the data protection world, with the headline-grabbing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) occupying most of the spotlight with its plethora of privacy-related requirements and potential for...more

California Enacts Sweeping New Privacy Law

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/12/2018

On June 28, 2018, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA or “the Act”), which is the broadest and most comprehensive privacy law enacted in the United States to date.1 The CCPA...more

California Enacts Watershed Privacy Law: Five Key Takeaways for Your Organization

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/3/2018

• California recently enacted a sweeping new privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA or Act), which is likely to have broad implications for organizations providing services to, or collecting data from,...more

Five Privacy Practices Every Company Should Address in the Wake of the FTC’s Enforcement Action against PayPal

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 3/7/2018

Privacy is serious business. This was made clear in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent announcement that it had settled its complaint against Venmo, PayPal’s peer-to-peer payment service, for misrepresentations to...more

Learning from Venmo’s Compliance Issues: How to Avoid Inadequate Privacy Disclosures

Carlton Fields on 7/21/2016

PayPal, the company responsible for the popular mobile payments app, Venmo, recently agreed to voluntarily bolster its privacy and security disclosures—and pay a $175,000 penalty—in response to an enforcement action brought...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - December 2013

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/18/2013

In This Issue: - European Commission Proposes Changes to the US-EU Safe Harbor: In our November Privacy & Cybersecurity Update,1 we reported that the European Commission was undertaking a review of the U.S.-EU...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - October 2013

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/3/2013

In This Issue: - Recent Changes to California Privacy Law Have Nationwide Implications - The FTC Brings Its First Enforcement Action Against the ‘Internet of Things’ - Fifth Circuit Ruling Provides New...more

“Do Not Track” Comes to CalOPPA

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 9/4/2013

California’s AB 370, if signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, would be the first piece of legislation in the world directly addressing “do not track” (“DNT”) to become law. It has passed both houses of the California Legislature and...more

First of a series: Issues for 2013

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 1/4/2013

Happy New Year! We are beginning this week with a series of top Privacy and Security issues for 2013, as we see them. Let’s start with an issue of interest to publicly traded companies, or companies considering going...more

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