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Low-Budget, High-Impact Ways to Reduce Privacy and Cybersecurity Risks in 2025‎

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 3/3/2025

Know What Laws Apply - Privacy and security laws, particularly in the U.S., have changed dramatically in the last few years. It’s not surprising many leaders are unsure which new laws or updated regulations apply to their...more

CFPB suggests that state privacy laws can—and should—regulate financial data

Ballard Spahr LLP on 11/21/2024

On November 12, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report examining the carve outs and limitations contained in comprehensive state privacy laws relating to financial institutions. In an...more

New Jersey Privacy Act Kicks off New Year with New Comprehensive State Privacy Law

Paul Hastings LLP on 2/1/2024

Earlier this month New Jersey became the thirteenth state to pass a comprehensive privacy law aimed at protecting residents’ personal information and starting a new round of comprehensive state privacy laws providing such...more

Legislative Update: Nevada Consumer Health Data Privacy Act will take effect next March

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 9/5/2023

This summer, Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) signed the Consumer Health Data Privacy Act into law. The Act, which will take effect March 31, 2024, provides protections for consumer health data collected and maintained by regulated...more

Tennessee Passes Comprehensive Data Privacy Law

White & Case LLP on 6/26/2023

On May 11, 2023, Governor Bill Lee signed the Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA) into law. Tennessee now joins the rapidly increasing group of states, California, Utah, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Iowa and...more

Cybersecurity Rules and Colleges – Approaching Deadline

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/2/2023

With only four months left before most changes to the federal Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (“Safeguards Rule”) – a component of the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (“GLBA”) that provides for the protection of...more

Legal Musings: Keep Privacy and Data Security on Your Radar

Hudson Cook, LLP on 5/7/2021

Privacy and data security. If you don't have those issues on your radar, you should. Dealers have always had data privacy and safeguarding responsibilities. Nothing new here. But a change is coming. The basic privacy and data...more

Virginia Is For Lovers . . . Of Data Privacy - UPDATED March 2021

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 3/9/2021

Update: The VCDPA was signed into law by Governor Ralph Northam without amendment on March 2, 2021. The VCDPA will become operative on January 1, 2023, and businesses should remain mindful of pending legislation in states...more

The CCPA and Similar State Laws – Considerations for Private Investment Funds

Morgan Lewis on 2/28/2020

Managers of private investment funds that collect personal information are required to comply with the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act – with some exemptions. ...more

New York State Expected to Increase Enforcement of Cybersecurity Practices

Hogan Lovells on 2/26/2020

Companies should take note of two imminent developments in New York in the area of cybersecurity regulation: enforcement of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation (Regulation) and the...more

CCPA and ‘Reasonable Security’: A Game Changer

McDermott Will & Emery on 1/21/2020

On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) went into effect. The CCPA applies to a wide range of companies and broadly governs the collection, use and sale of personal information of California...more

Florida’s Legislature to Consider Consumer Data Privacy Bill Akin to California’s CCPA

Carlton Fields on 1/15/2020

Florida lawmakers have proposed data privacy legislation that, if adopted, would impose significant new obligations on companies offering a website or online service to Florida residents, including allowing consumers to “opt...more

CCPA Amendments – What did California Actually Do?

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/18/2019

The rush for California to get all of the “rules of the road” ready for next year has seemed to cause a bit of confusion with California’s privacy law. Draft regulations were published the same day the Governor signed into...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

Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Right from Sale of Personal Information Goes into Effect

Proskauer on Privacy on 10/1/2019

Effective tomorrow, October 1, 2019, the existing Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act will be amended to include a consumer right to opt out from the sale of personal information and to...more

Are Banks and Other Lenders Subject to the CCPA?

Carlton Fields on 8/30/2019

California’s new privacy statute imposes a number of new requirements on businesses that touch the personal information of California consumers. Its reach includes banks and financial services companies....more

Nevada Adds “Do Not Sell” Requirement to Privacy Law

BakerHostetler on 6/6/2019

Last week, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed new privacy legislation into law in Nevada. Senate Bill 220 (SB-220) updates Nevada Revised State 603A to provide consumers a new right to opt out of the sale of their data....more

Exempt or Not Exempt? California Consumer Privacy Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 4/16/2019

For the last 18 years, most financial services businesses could sum up their privacy practices with just four letters: G-L-B-A, also known as Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Public Law 106-102, and its implementing...more

Washington State Legislature Moves Toward Passage of Broad Consumer Data Privacy Law

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 4/11/2019

Following in the footsteps of California, and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, the State of Washington is taking steps to adopt a comprehensive privacy law focused on protecting consumer information....more

NJ Bill Seeks to Regulate the Business of Data

Saul Ewing LLP on 3/15/2019

Data is thought to be such a significant commodity in today’s economy that it has been referred to as "the new oil." Business ventures across the globe in assorted industries have recognized and attempted to realize the...more

GLBA and the California Privacy Act: Analyzing SB 1121’s Change to the Financial Institution Carve-Out Provision

Ballard Spahr LLP on 9/27/2018

Less than three months after California passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 1121 this week, making a number of technical and substantive changes to the law....more

California’s New Privacy Act: Update on Amendments

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/7/2018

In July, we published a client alert answering key questions about the CCPA. However, state lawmakers have made additional changes to the law since then. Below is an updated overview showing the amendments in bold...more

Amendments to California Consumer Privacy Act Head to Governor’s Desk

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 9/6/2018

The California legislature passed SB 1121, a bill to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), on Friday night, hours before the legislature recessed for the year. SB 1121 contained only a few substantive changes,...more

More Privacy Legislative Activity in California

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 9/5/2018

Labor Day is passed, and the Privacy & Security Matters blog is back after a bit of a hiatus. The California State Legislature was busy up to the last day of the session working on privacy legislation. Amendments to...more

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