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Privacy Law Recap 2024: State Consumer Privacy Laws

Perkins Coie on 12/18/2024

U.S. privacy law continued to expand in 2024, both geographically and substantively. We now have 19 states with comprehensive consumer privacy laws (some of which are already in effect, while others become effective in...more

Delaware Data Protection Act: What Businesses Need to Know

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/14/2024

In September 2023, Delaware became the seventh state in 2023 to enact comprehensive privacy law with the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA), joining Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas. The DPDPA will...more

State Data Privacy Law Development Proceeds Apace

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 5/4/2023

2023 is turning out to be the year of the state privacy law, including new laws in five states with the possibility of more to come. Indeed, in recent days both Indiana and Iowa have likewise passed new statutes, which we...more

GDPR and U.S. States' General Privacy Laws Deskbook

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/18/2023

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020) and Related Regulations - 1798.100 General Duties of Businesses that Collect Personal Information - (a) A business that...more

Federalism Rankles National Privacy Debate: California Weighs in on the proposed American Data Protection and Privacy Act

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 8/9/2022

As states have continued to debate and pass new comprehensive privacy statutes – such as those in Virginia and Colorado – a common refrain from business leaders is the need for a comprehensive federal privacy statute that...more

Key Takeaways from the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022

Brooks Pierce on 5/13/2022

After two-plus years of mostly attending CLEs, webinars, and other knowledge-building events via Zoom, Teams or some other virtual platform, it was great to get together with like-minded privacy professionals in Washington,...more

Privacy Report: Utah Will Soon Publish US’s Latest Comprehensive State Privacy Law

ArentFox Schiff on 3/11/2022

US News - Utah Will Soon Publish US’s Latest Comprehensive State Privacy Law - The Utah Consumer Privacy Act, also known as Senate Bill 227, recently cleared the Senate and the House. Though there are a few more steps...more

Colorado Passes New Comprehensive Consumer Data Protection Act

UB Greensfelder LLP on 8/2/2021

Earlier this month, the governor of Colorado signed into law the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), making Colorado the third state to enact a comprehensive data security law after California in 2018 and Virginia in March 2021. The...more

And Then There Were Three: Colorado Passes Privacy Law, Effective July 2023

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 7/14/2021

Colorado recently joined Virginia and California in passing a more comprehensive privacy law. The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) will go into effect July 1, 2023. This is six months after Virginia’s law (CDPA) and California’s...more

Virginia’s New Data Privacy Law: An Uncertain Next Step for State Data Protection

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 7/7/2021

On March 2, 2021, Governor Ralph Northam signed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) into law. This made Virginia the second state to enact a consumer privacy and data security law, and follows hot the heels of...more

Virginia Passes Comprehensive Data Privacy Law

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 3/11/2021

With incredible speed, Virginia became the second state in the United States with a comprehensive data privacy law. Virginia’s law is called the Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA). The CDPA is effective January 1, 2023,...more

Governor Signs Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act

Woods Rogers on 3/3/2021

Elizabeth Burgin Waller Principal John Pilch Cybersecurity/Privacy Analyst The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA, or “the Act”) makes Virginia the second state in the nation to have sweeping data privacy...more

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

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 3/3/2021

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

New Virginia Privacy Bill

Polsinelli on 2/16/2021

Any day now, Virginia will likely become the second state, behind California, to adopt a GDPR-inspired comprehensive data protection law for Virginia residents....more

Privacy Moves to the East Coast: Virginia Set to Enact Comprehensive Consumer Data Protection Law

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 2/8/2021

Virginia is primed to become the next U.S. state to pass comprehensive data-privacy legislation with striking similarities to the California Consumers Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and the...more

Emerging Issues in Cannabis and Privacy

Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law on 1/8/2021

Though the final results of the 2020 presidential race took a few days to become clear, it was obvious by the morning of November 4 that cannabis legalization had run the table: from deep red Montana, South Dakota, and...more

California’s Proposition 24 – CCPA 2.0 Meets the California GDPR

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/30/2020

Proposition 24 is known as the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). It is on the ballot in California on November 3, and if it passes it will amend and expand certain provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act...more

Revised, Washington State Privacy Legislation Moves Forward

Fox Rothschild LLP on 9/14/2020

The Washington Privacy Act is back and now includes provisions for handling personal data during a public health emergency such as a pandemic. Its provisions are closer to the European Union’s General Data Privacy...more

COVID-19 and Data Protection Compliance in Germany

White & Case LLP on 4/3/2020

Following the outbreak of COVID-19 and its development into a global pandemic, organisations have been implementing exceptional measures to safeguard employees, customers and others against the health threat that is being...more

The Washington Privacy Act – Re-Introduced for 2020 – Is it the Best of CCPA and GDPR?

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/13/2020

Washington legislators recently introduced the Washington Privacy Act (WPA). This legislation is a consumer-focused privacy law similar to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) but it also has some EU General Data...more

Privacy and Data Security Alert l January 2020

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 1/30/2020

States Consider Privacy and Data Security Legislation - It’s that time of year again, when we see a flood of legislative activity at the state level on privacy and data security laws. A couple of recent examples are below....more

The eData Guide to GDPR: New York’s SHIELD Act Defines Records Management as a Reasonable Safeguard

Morgan Lewis on 1/29/2020

New data retention limitations and disposal requirements on some types of businesses in New York will go into effect on March 21, 2020, under the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD Act) that was signed...more

Washington State to Try Again for a Comprehensive Privacy Law

Hogan Lovells on 1/14/2020

Washington State is already shaping up as a center of state privacy legislation for 2020. Last year, SB 5376 (also known as the Washington Privacy Act, or WPA) gained significant traction in the legislature, passing the...more

California Consumer Privacy Act: A Reference Guide for Compliance

Carlton Fields on 10/22/2019

California passed a sweeping new privacy law that will impact many businesses. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) is the first U.S. law to grant consumers extensive rights as to their personal information and...more

Stricter Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Laws May Be Coming Soon to New York: Updates on the SHIELD Act and the New York Privacy...

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP on 7/18/2019

New York is gearing up to enact some of the toughest cybersecurity, privacy and data protection laws in the country. Modeled on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer...more

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