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J.S. Held

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

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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

Carlton Fields

No Password Required: Director and Cybersecurity Adviser at KPMG and Rain Culture Authority

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Zabrina Mcintyre is a director and cybersecurity adviser at KPMG, where she leverages her diverse expertise in cybersecurity, risk management, and strategic project leadership. She brings a unique blend of creativity and...more

Fisher Phillips

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

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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

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

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

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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

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

New York Legislature Passes a Pair of Bills to Protect Children's Privacy Online

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On June 7, 2023, the New York legislature passed the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act (SAFE Act or the Act) and the New York Child Data Protection Act (CDPA), both aimed at protecting children online. The...more

Kilpatrick

California Online Tracking Lawsuits Shift Away from Wiretap Theory Toward Pen Register Theory

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Class-action lawyers are adapting their legal tactics, moving away from suing companies under California's wiretap law and instead focusing on a new legal claim: the pen register theory....more

WilmerHale

Year in Review: 2023 Web Tracking Litigation and Enforcement

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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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Advocate Aurora Health to Pay $12.25 Million Settlement for Data Breach Class Action

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In October 2022, Advocate Aurora Health notified 3 million individuals of a data breach resulting from its use of tracking pixels on its website for tracking website visitor activity. Now, this month, Advocate Aurora Health...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

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

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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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FTC Adopts Policy Statement to Increase Scrutiny for COPPA Violations

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On May 19, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adopted the “Policy Statement on Education Technology and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act” (COPPA), which calls for increased scrutiny for violations of COPPA...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

You Might Want to Rethink That New Meditation App

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Researchers from the Mozilla Foundation reviewed the privacy policies of 32 mental health apps ranging from guided meditation to telehealth counseling services and flagged 28 of them as having “Privacy Not Included.” In...more

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Key Considerations for Health App Developers from the FTC

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If your company creates health-related apps, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has set out some key considerations: - Make accurate representations. Clearly explain how people’s information will be used and shared and then...more

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

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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

NAVEX

Privacy and Data Protection – The Year of Privacy Framework Implementation

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For those involved in supporting a privacy and data protection program, continued expansion of new regulatory requirements will likely be the biggest trend in the coming year. Whether it be new laws being discussed, pending,...more

Foster Garvey PC

Happy Data Privacy Day – What Are You Doing to Keep Your Data Secure?

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Data Privacy Day is celebrated on January 28 each year to raise awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust. In honor of Data Privacy Day, now is an ideal time to review your...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

2021 Privacy and Cybersecurity Year in Review

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FTC Activities in 2021 and Likely Trends for 2022 2021 saw the kickoff of the Khan era at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). During FTC Chair Lina Khan's first nine months on the job, she has announced privacy and security...more

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Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act of 2021

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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

Lowndes

Update Your Privacy Policy Now to Avoid Costly Penalties

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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

Husch Blackwell LLP

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

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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

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

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

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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

Hanzo

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

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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

Knobbe Martens

California Attorney General Publishes Third Set of Modified Proposed Regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act

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On October 12, 2020, the California Attorney General published a Third Set of Modified Proposed Regulations (“Modified Regulations”) even though the final text of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) regulations are...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

California Department of Justice Proposes Third Set of Amendments to CCPA Regulations

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The Regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) continue to evolve, in confusing fashion. As background, the AG’s Office had previously issued proposed Regulations to the CCPA in October 2019. The AG’s Office...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

CCPA: When “Final” Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means (with apologies to The Princess Bride)

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Earlier this week, the California Department of Justice unexpectedly released a third set of proposed modifications to the CCPA regulations. This move took place only two months after the California Attorney General’s Office...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

CCPA’s Employee and Business-to-Business Information Exemptions Extended Until At Least January 1, 2022

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The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) went into effect January 1, 2020. While the CCPA was amended in October of 2019 to exempt certain employment and personal information involved in business-to-business (B2B)...more

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