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It’s the season of lists and next on ours: Minnesota! This state joined 18 others to enact comprehensive data privacy legislation in recent years. To avoid being on the “naughty” list, make sure to review your compliance...more
Any chancery you might be impacted by the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA)? (See what we did there?) Impacted companies need to gear up and prepare for compliance as the DPDPA becomes effective on January 1, 2025....more
2024 was a banner year for state privacy legislation. This year saw seven new states pass comprehensive consumer privacy laws, joining the ranks of 12 other states that have previously passed similar laws. While other state...more
This article is the first in a series that will address privacy concerns for insurance carriers, agents and brokers. The insurance industry is uniquely situated at the confluence of multiple data privacy regimes....more
On May 25, 2024, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (the "Act"), which takes effect on July 31, 2025, for most controllers and on July 31, 2029, for certain postsecondary educational...more
On April 17, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed into law the Nebraska Data Privacy Act (the Act), making Nebraska the seventeenth state to enact general consumer data privacy legislation. The Act largely, but not completely,...more
Kentucky - On April 4, 2024, Kentucky joined the growing number of states to enact data privacy legislation, becoming the third state to do so in 2024 and the fifteenth state overall at the time of enactment....more
On January 16, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) of New Jersey signed Senate Bill No. 332 into law. The New Jersey privacy law generally follows the same framework found in many of the comprehensive privacy laws enacted by other states...more
On January 16, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Senate Bill (SB) 332, establishing New Jersey’s consumer data privacy law, the New Jersey Data Privacy Act (NJDPA) which will be effective January 15, 2025. This...more
On January 16, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Senate Bill 322 ("the Act"), making New Jersey the fourteenth state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy law, joining California, Virginia,...more
On November 14, 2023, the Wisconsin State Assembly passed Assembly Bill 466, otherwise known as the Wisconsin Data Privacy Act (WDPA). The bill passed on its third reading and was immediately ordered to the Wisconsin State...more
On July 18, 2023, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed into law Senate Bill 619 (the "Oregon Consumer Privacy Act"), Oregon's new state consumer privacy law, which will become effective July 1, 2024. Oregon now joins California,...more
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed Senate Bill 262 into law, adopting the "Digital Bill of Rights" proposed by his office in February. Florida joins the rapidly increasing group of states, California, Utah,...more
On September 11, 2023, Delaware Governor John Carney signed into law House Bill No. 154 ("Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act"), Delaware's new state consumer privacy law, which will become effective January 1, 2025. Delaware...more
On February 27, 2023, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Patrick McHenry (NC-10) introduced the Data Privacy Act of 2023 (the Bill), which would amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) to “modernize[]...more
On July 8, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) published draft regulations in the California Regulatory Notice Register (“Draft Regulations”) mandated by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The...more
On May 10, 2022, Connecticut became the fifth state in the nation to pass its own omnibus privacy legislation, joining California, Virginia, Colorado, and Utah. While Senate Bill 6, the Personal Data Privacy and Online...more
On May 4, 2022, the Connecticut legislature passed S.B. 6 entitled the “Connecticut Data Privacy Act” (CDPA) with the bill now moving to Governor Ned Lamont’s desk for signature. Although Governor Lamont is generally expected...more
On April 28, 2022, the Connecticut legislature took the final step to become very close to passing comprehensive consumer privacy legislation as the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 144-5 in favor of Senate Bill 6,...more
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
Keypoint: The 2022 legislative session of proposed state consumer privacy legislation kicks off with the filing of a new bill in Oklahoma. On September 9, 2021, Rep. Collin Walke (D) and Majority Leader Rep. Josh West...more
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) is a federal law that establishes various legal requirements for companies that qualify as “financial institutions” under the Act. The GLBA’s definition of a “financial institution” is...more
Keypoint: The Colorado bill mirrors the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act and Washington Privacy Act but contains some notable differences. On March 19, 2021, Colorado lawmakers introduced the Colorado Privacy Act...more
Florida lawmakers have proposed data privacy legislation that, if adopted, would impose significant new obligations on companies offering a website or online service to Florida residents, including allowing consumers to “opt...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) will take effect on January 1, 2020, and hedge fund firms may be subject to the CCPA even if they are already compliant with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), do not have a...more