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Businesses Need To Revamp And Revise CCPA Notices As 2020 Comes To A Close

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all manner of business procedures over the course of this past year, but one area you may not immediately recognize that needs to be immediately addressed relates to mandatory privacy...more

Rumberger | Kirk

What Can Marketers Learn from COVID-19 Privacy Considerations?

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Contact-tracing during COVID-19 raises data privacy implications for restaurants.  It cannot be argued that COVID-19 is anything but a gut-punch to the restaurant industry. Projections for business sustainability are low...more

Baker Donelson

Sitting with the C-Suite: Looking Ahead to Potential Compliance Issues Due to COVID-19

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Ian Campbell, the President and CEO of iCONECT, has a design background and, prior to founding iCONECT, he worked in advertising and founded his own agency. In 2012 iCONECT launched its flagship review product, Xera, which...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

New Privacy Laws in California and New York Are on a Collision Course with the COVID-19 Technology Boom

As COVID-19 fuels technological adoption and adaptation in all walks of life, the CCPA and New York SHIELD Act are front and center in the minds of both government enforcers and the private plaintiffs’ bar. The increased...more

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US Privacy Law and Contact Tracing Apps: Considerations for Mitigating Risk

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Contact Tracing Is Crucial: Contact tracing is the systematic identification of infected individuals and their relevant contacts. Along with rapid testing and targeted quarantines, contact tracing is an effective and crucial...more

Morgan Lewis

Practical Advice on Privacy: COVID-19 Pandemic Will Not Delay July 1 CCPA Enforcement Date

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Despite the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the California attorney general intends to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) beginning July 1, 2020, pending the anticipated approval from the California Office of...more

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CCPA, Regulatory Enforcement & COVID-19: What You Need to Know

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Recent events have significantly impacted virtually every organization and their workforce. Government is no exception; the current pandemic has ground regulatory activity to a seeming halt. Over the past few months, multiple...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Public Backlash Calls Use of Facial Recognition Systems into Question

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In recent weeks and months, legal and technical issues related to use of facial recognition systems in the United States have received national attention, including concerns that the technology lacks accuracy in identifying...more

Sunstein LLP

Back to Work: The Use of Contact Tracing Technology to Improve Worker Safety

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The Covid-19 pandemic has spawned a number of novel technologies aimed at suppressing the spread of the coronavirus. In China, for example, the most popular messaging and payment apps contain technology that requires a user...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Dakotas Slip in COVID-19 Contact Tracing Privacy Protection

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Pandemic contact tracing is an important tool. Operating such a tool while respecting personal privacy rights can be tricky. Just ask the state governments of North Dakota and South Dakota. The governors of the Dakotas...more

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Republicans and Democrats Introduce Competing Privacy Bills to Protect Consumers’ Health Information Related to the COVID-19...

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As the federal government, state governments, businesses and other entities continue their response efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the privacy and security of consumers’ personal health information remains a top...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

CCPA, GDPR, and 3 Steps to Sustaining BAU after COVID-19

This is unlikely to be quick or easy, but having a deep understanding of the core issues will help ease the return to standard or near-standard business processes....more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Reopening Plans and Recommended Protocols Beg New Privacy Issues

While far from getting us back to any kind of normal that predated the COVID-19 pandemic, states have begun to relax lockdown requirements and some previously-closed “nonessential” businesses are returning to operations. With...more

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COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act introduced in the U.S. Senate

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On May 7, 2020, in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and as some states are “opening up”, U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; John Thune...more

Hogan Lovells

COVID-19 Exit Strategy: A Global Privacy and Cybersecurity Guide - May 2020

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As the world focuses its efforts on the right strategy to beat the coronavirus and make normal life safe again, businesses are devising and implementing a variety of measures to deal with the COVID-19 crisis which rely on the...more

Locke Lord LLP

Beyond Borders: COVID-19 Highlights the Potential Widespread Impact of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”)

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The COVID-19 pandemic created a new normal for Americans—one where family members of all ages work and go to school from home. Businesses and schools have turned to technology to facilitate remote work and e-learning. ...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Considering Facial Recognition Technology as Businesses Reopen

As businesses across America begin to reopen in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many will likely implement new social distancing and sanitization procedures. That got us thinking about how companies may...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Congressional Democrats Counter Republican COVID-19 Privacy Measure

On Thursday, May 14, House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chair Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce (CPC) Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced a bicameral counter-proposal to the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Senators Announce Plans to Introduce COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act of 2020

Thursday, April 30th, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS), Majority Whip John Thune (R-SD), and Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced plans to soon introduce the COVID-19...more

White & Case LLP

COVID-19 and Data Protection Compliance in France

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Following the outbreak of COVID-19, organizations have been implementing exceptional measures to maintain "business-as-usual" to the extent allowed by their particular circumstances and to protect their employees, customers...more

Hogan Lovells

Making COVID-19 Apps Data Protection Compliant

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The role of COVID-19 contact tracing apps in the exit strategy of the current lockdown that is gripping much of the world is increasingly becoming a focus of attention. ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Impact of COVID-19 on the California Consumer Privacy Act

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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses around the world had been bracing for the financial and operational impact of the new California Consumers Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which took effect January 1, 2020. ...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

No Delay on CCPA due to COVID-19

The California Attorney General’s Office is going forward with the enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) despite the logistical issues caused by COVID-19. An advisor to Attorney General Becerra made a...more

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Department of Justice Directed to Prioritize Investigation and Prosecution of COVID-19-Related Fraud

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On March 16, 2020, United States Attorney General William Barr issued a memo directing all U.S. Attorneys to prioritize the detection, investigation, and prosecution of COVID-19-related fraud, amid reports of scams, malware,...more

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California Attorney General: CCPA Enforcement on Schedule Despite COVID-19

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COVID-19 is delaying just about everything these days—except the CCPA. In letters submitted on March 17 and March 20, a coalition of nearly sixty business and organizations called on California Attorney General Xavier...more

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