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Privacy Policy Basics

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC on 4/23/2025

In today’s digital landscape, privacy policies have evolved from obscure legal documents into essential corporate governance tools. As data privacy regulations expand globally, organizations face increasing compliance...more

Do App Permissions Satisfy Requirements for Valid Consent for the Purpose of GDPR?

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/17/2025

App permissions do not satisfy the requirements for valid consent for the purpose of GDPR because they lack sufficient detail and granularity, according to the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)....more

Data Privacy Laws: Staying Compliant in a Global Marketplace

Mandelbaum Barrett PC on 11/29/2024

Over the last few years, 71% of countries have enacted data protection laws, reflecting the global emphasis on data privacy across industries. For businesses operating internationally, complying with diverse data privacy...more

New Enforcement Powers for the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 7/25/2024

On May 21, 2024, France adopted law No. 2024-449 to secure and regulate the digital space. This law grants new enforcement powers and authority to the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL), including to seize documents,...more

NAIC proposes new California-style privacy model law for insurance

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 2/10/2023

On Wednesday February 1, 2023, the NAIC Privacy Protections Working Group (the Working Group) released a draft of a new model law for comment, the Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law (#674) (the Proposal), which...more

Recent Developments in Data Privacy

Cranfill Sumner LLP on 1/27/2023

For American companies doing business in Europe and European businesses relying on U.S. vendors and service providers, 2023 may be the year when Europe and the United States finally come together to implement a viable and...more

Proposed Federal Privacy Law – 5 Key Impacts to Your Privacy Program, David Manek, Kenric Tom

Ankura on 7/28/2022

The latest proposed Federal Privacy Law, titled the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (“ADPPA”), continues to gain momentum and in late July 2022, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted to advance the bill to...more

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

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 7/11/2022

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

U.S. Privacy 2022: Compare, Contrast, and Integrate New State Laws

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 12/10/2021

U.S. state legislatures accelerated efforts in 2021 to fill the gap created by the absence of national data privacy legislation. California, Virginia, and Colorado passed or amended data protection laws, and the trend is...more

I Wish I Knew What I Know Now: Conversations with AGG on FDA Issues - Data Privacy Issues Life Sciences Companies May Encounter

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 3/31/2021

In this episode, AGG’s Food & Drug team leader, Alan G. Minsk, and co-chair of AGG's Data Privacy practice, Kevin L. Coy, discuss U.S. and international privacy and data security law issues life sciences companies may...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

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2021

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/4/2021

In this month's edition, we examine the European Commission's Digital Services Act and its potential regulatory impact, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's draft guidance on internet-of-things devices'...more

The Data & Brexit Digest – Drafting tips for contracts and policies

BCLP on 1/28/2021

With the UK now unambiguously out of the EU, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) (“EU GDPR”) has been replaced by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”). In this third instalment of...more

Privacy and Cybersecurity Perils in Hastily Signed Work-From-Home Vendor Contracts

Carlton Fields on 4/5/2020

COVID-19 spurred an overnight surge in demand for work-from-home vendors. These include companies offering audio and videoconferencing services, cloud services, e-commerce platforms, and virtual desktop infrastructure, to...more

Data Privacy Is Not a Law, It’s a Lifestyle

NAVEX on 2/10/2020

The words “hodgepodge” and “patchwork” are overused in the world of risk and compliance, but they’re certainly appropriate for describing the myriad data privacy regulations popping up around the world. In 2018, the world...more

January 2020: Survey of the Retail Industry’s Privacy Practices

BCLP on 1/7/2020

With the enactment of the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA”), retailers have been forced to cope with a shifting privacy landscape that impacts the data that...more

EU Data Protection Supervisor Weighs In On Privacy Policies

Fox Rothschild LLP on 5/3/2019

“Privacy policies … have evolved from … largely factual statements to become, nowadays, either long, verbose and impenetrable legalese, or else vague and soothing PR exercises. Either approach places the burden on the...more

The Paris District Court Invalidates 38 Clauses of Google+ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 4/15/2019

It has been rough weather for Google in France. Three weeks after the French ?Data Protection Authority imposed a record fine against Google for non-compliance with the GDPR, the Paris District Court (“Tribunal de Grande...more

Skadden's 2019 Insights: European Data Protection and Cybersecurity in 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/25/2019

Data protection laws in Europe evolved substantially in 2018, with the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS Directive) becoming...more

GDPR Alert: Google Gets Biggest Fine Ever Issued by a European Data Protection Authority

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 1/23/2019

On 21 January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “French DPA”) fined Google LLC 50 million euros for breach of the GDPR. As we reported on this blog, just after GDPR became applicable, noyb.eu (None of Your...more

Momentum Builds for a National Privacy Law in the United States

Dechert LLP on 12/19/2018

Recent developments show that momentum is building for the United States to enact a national privacy law that would govern how businesses handle consumers’ personal information. High-profile data breaches, recent...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - September 2018

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/2/2018

In this month's Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine recent trends and court decisions, including a new law in Ohio that provides a safe harbor from tort-based data breach claims if the company adopts certain security...more

Are You Prepared for the California Consumer Privacy Act? Get Ready for European-Style Privacy in the U.S.

Troutman Pepper Locke on 9/10/2018

With California enacting a sweeping new data privacy law on June 28, now is the time for companies to review and adjust to how the California Consumer Privacy Act will impact their business. The act, which has broad...more

Getting to Data Nirvana: Data lakes and GDPR - A User's guide

Hogan Lovells on 8/9/2018

A data lake is an infrastructure that permits different data sets from within a group to be combined and analysed together. To analyse a data lake under GDPR, it is helpful to think of a data lake in two phases, which we...more

Come to the Dark Side, We Have Cookies

Fisher Phillips on 7/30/2018

Have you noticed recently that when you click on most websites a notice appears stating that the host uses cookies? Many are aware that on May 25, 2018, the GDPR (“Global Data Protection Regulation”) took effect. The law...more

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