Cybersecurity, Registration Requirement

California’s Amended Data Broker Registration Law

Polsinelli on 1/18/2024

In October 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (S.B.) 362 into law, amending California’s data broker registration law. By January 31, 2024, qualifying data brokers must register with the California...more

Texas and Oregon Adopt New Rules for Data Broker Laws

WilmerHale on 12/15/2023

Earlier this year, Texas and Oregon each passed a data broker registration law, joining California and Vermont to double the number of states that have enacted such legislation. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 2105 into...more

Briefs Illuminate Florida Law Limiting Foreign Persons from Acquiring Real Property

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/13/2023

Briefing on a motion for preliminary injunction is complete in the lawsuit filed to strike Florida Senate Bill 264, Chapter No. 2023-33, Laws of Florida (the Act), which limits select persons from "foreign countries of...more

You Made the List: SEC’s Spring Agenda Would Impact Broker-Dealers

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/27/2023

The SEC’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs recently released the Spring 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (the Agenda). The word salad of a title hints at the fact the SEC is considering a...more

Don't Be Fooled – April 1st Application Deadline for New Louisiana Virtual Currency License

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads on 3/7/2023

April 1, 2023 marks the deadline to submit an application for the Louisiana Virtual Currency Business Activity License or Virtual Currency Limited Activity Registration in order to receive timely approval from the Louisiana...more

As China Cross-Border Data Transfer Security Assessment Requirement Comes Into Effect, New Guidelines Posted for Security...

Benesch on 10/19/2022

The new guidelines provide insight into how businesses can submit applications to the CAC in order to obtain approval via the CAC security assessment cross-border data transfer requirement. As of September 2022, all...more

New Proposed EU AI Regulation Extends Beyond Europe

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/3/2021

On April 21, 2021, the European Commission (Commission) published its draft Regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It follows the strategies outlined in the February 2020 Commission’s White Paper on AI. The draft...more

New Horizons: European Commission Proposes Measures to Regulate AI

Goodwin on 4/27/2021

On 21 April 2021, the European Commission unveiled a proposal for an EU Artificial Intelligence Regulation (“Proposal”). The Proposal recognizes that AI offers significant benefits and opportunities for the EU market, but...more

California Data Broker List Comes Online

Hudson Cook, LLP on 2/4/2020

As 2019 has become 2020, many businesses - including financial institutions - are rightly focused on setting up their CCPA compliance structures. But those businesses also should consider a separate yet related law passed by...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

California Follows Vermont, Requires Data Broker Registration

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/14/2019

Joining Vermont, California will now require data brokers to register with the California Attorney General. The law was signed October 11, 2019. It applies to companies that “knowingly” collect and sell personal information...more

Poor Richard Stares Down California's New Wall of Shame The Data Broker Registry

Kilpatrick on 9/17/2019

When the smoke cleared from California’s privacy legislative battles that ended on September 13th, many were surprised to see another large alien life form snorting alongside the CCPA. AB 1202 requires the registration of...more

Privacy Shield: If You Got It – Flaunt It; If Not – Don’t

Womble Bond Dickinson on 6/20/2019

One of the EU’s chief complaints against US privacy practices is the lack of enforcement of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield). Last week we saw a US enforcement action that may allay this concern. The US...more

US Breach Laws Are Coming: Vermont

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 12/24/2018

On January 1, 2019 Vermont’s breach notice law will include obligations specific to data brokers. A “data broker” is defined as a business that “knowingly collects and sells or licenses to third parties the brokered personal...more

NYDFS Requires Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies to Comply with Cybersecurity Regulation

Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/6/2018

The New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) has adopted a regulation that requires “consumer credit reporting agencies” (“CCRAs”) to register with the NYDFS, prohibits CCRAs from engaging in certain practices, and...more

NYDFS adopts regulation requiring registration of consumer credit reporting agencies, compliance with cybersecurity regulation

Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/6/2018

The New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) has adopted a regulation that requires “consumer credit reporting agencies” (“CCRAs”) to register with the NYDFS, prohibits CCRAs from engaging in certain practices, and...more

Credit Reporting Agencies Now Must Register with NY DFS and Comply with Cybersecurity Regulations

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/2/2018

The New York Department of Financial Services issued new regulations requiring every consumer credit reporting agency that “assembles, evaluates, or maintains a consumer credit report on any consumers located in New York...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - May 2018 #5

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/5/2018

Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning t U.S. consumers that Russian hackers (dubbed Sofacy and a/k/a Fancy Brear and APT28, and believed to be backed by the Russian government) had compromised...more

Compliance News Flash

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 5/18/2018

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is pleased to provide you with the Compliance News Flash. This weekly update is your source for timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important to your organization....more

GSA Identifies Fraudulent Activity in SAM.gov and Imposes New Requirements

Holland & Knight LLP on 4/20/2018

Takeaways for all government contractors - 1. Review your SAM.gov registration to ensure it is accurate, especially as to banking information and authorized Entity Administrators. 2. Prepare and submit notarized...more

Overview of California’s Final Autonomous Vehicle Testing and Deployment Regulations – Fully Driverless Vehicles Permitted

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/13/2018

• California’s new regulations lay out the requirements for manufacturers to obtain permits to test and deploy autonomous-vehicles on public roads. The regulations enable manufacturers to test fully driverless vehicles and...more

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