A Sneak Peek into Data Mapping: What Implementation Really Looks Like
It's Time to Think About Data Mapping Differently
EEO-1 Filing After June 4: What to Do Now, and How to Prepare for Next Year - Employment Law This Week®
Navigating State Privacy Laws
[Webinar] You Are Here: First Steps in Data Mapping
An Ounce of Prevention: Keys to Understanding and Preventing AI and Cybersecurity Risks
Calculating eDiscovery Costs: Tips from Brett Burney
State AG Pulse | Content moderation vs. free expression
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 14: How Employers Can Navigate Cybersecurity Issues with Brandon Robinson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney
Navigating the Digital Frontier: Employee Privacy Rights and Legal Obligations in the Modern Workplace
DE Under 3: OMB Announced Finalized Overhaul to Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Collection Standards
Embracing Data Privacy to Drive Business Growth: On Record PR
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 6: Digital Forensics & Protecting Trade Secrets with Clark Walton
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - U.S. State Data Privacy Update
Managing Large Scale Review Efficiency: Tips From a GC
AD Nauseam – Children, They are Indeed Our Future – COPPA Developments
1071 Rule Status — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
The Great Link Debate and the Future of Cloud Collaboration
RegFi Episode 9: Consumer Data Collection and Usage with Eric Ellman
As an onslaught of recent class actions allege, companies may be liable for eavesdropping and wiretapping based on the use of common analytics software on their platforms. For instance, in California, plaintiffs have filed...more
Since 2011, I’ve attended the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C. Each year one session gets everyone talking; this year the honor went to “Direct Insights from U.S....more
The effective dates of new U.S. data privacy laws are closing in. Currently, thirteen states have passed comprehensive data privacy laws in the United States: California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Iowa, Indiana,...more
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
2023 has seen a flurry of general state privacy laws, with twelve (12) such laws now on the books. The next one to “go live,” on December 31, 2023, is the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA). With no general federal privacy...more
In our June Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we review new data privacy laws in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida and Montana; Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report; AM Best’s report on cyber insurance trends; and...more
As the scramble continues to reckon with the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT, Bard, DALL-E, and MidJourney, and the promise of other AI and machine learning systems (for simplicity,...more
Washington state’s My Health, My Data Act (the Act), signed into law in April 2023, is a broad health data privacy law designed to protect consumer health data that falls outside the scope of HIPAA, such as health-related...more
Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more
Amazon Sued for Not Telling New York Store Customers about Tracking Biometrics - “Thanks to a 2021 law, New York is the only major American city to require businesses to post signs letting customers know they’re tracking...more
North Carolina Power Outage Points to Homeland Security Long-Documented Threats to US Power Grid - “Moore County blackouts serve as reminder that nation’s electricity infrastructure could be vulnerable targets for domestic...more
On September 1, 2022, the American Data Privacy Protection Act (“ADDPA” or the “Act”) was blocked from moving forward before the full U.S. House of Representatives. The ADPPA, which comes from the U.S. House Committee on...more
STATE & LOCAL LAWS & REGULATIONS - Connecticut Passes Comprehensive Privacy Bill - The Connecticut Legislature has become the fifth state in the United States to pass a comprehensive privacy law....more
The Florida House of Representatives has introduced its version of a comprehensive privacy law (HB 9 – no fancy acronym, unlike the FPPA in the Senate). This blog post will explain the key differences between the House and...more
The federal government is trying to find as many ways as possible to handle the cybersecurity crisis facing the United States. While it is unlikely that Congress will pass a comprehensive federal cybersecurity law for the...more
This summer, following two years of work toward a model state privacy law, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has entered the privacy debate by adopting The Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (the “Uniform Act”) by a vote of...more
New York City recently amended its law governing third party delivery services, with the changes going into effect December 27, 2021. The revised law specifically permits restaurants to ask for customers’ personal information...more
As businesses find useful new ways to harness the evolving technology that captures and analyzes human biometric data, legal regulation of such technology’s usage is also developing, responding to concerns about personal...more
Recently, the Office of the Attorney General of California announced three major updates that 1) added to the California Consumer Privacy Act's (CCPA) opt-out rules related to the sale of personal information, 2) made it...more
Following the lead of California and then Virginia, Colorado recently became the third U.S. state to pass a comprehensive law providing its residents with personal data privacy rights. While there is significant overlap...more
On May 26, 2021, the Colorado State Senate unanimously passed the Colorado Privacy Act bill (CPA) through the state Senate. On June 7, 2021, the Colorado House passed the CPA (by a vote of 57-7). ...more
On June 8, the Colorado legislature passed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). Assuming Governor Jared Polis signs the bill into law within 30 days, as is expected, Colorado will become the third state in the United States to...more
Keypoint: This week the Colorado legislature continued to advance the Colorado Privacy Act, and the Nevada Governor signed into law a bill that will broaden the state’s pre-existing right to opt out of sales as of October 1,...more
Breaking news out of Florida: On April 21, 2021, the Florida House, in a near unanimous vote, passed the Florida Privacy Protection Act (FPPA). Largely modeled after the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the FPPA would...more
Well, it’s over, with a whimper. After months of will-they-or-won’t-they, the Florida legislature went with “won’t” on enacting Florida House Bill 969, the “Florida Privacy Protection Act.” ...more