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On Thursday, March 20, a federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois granted final approval to a settlement agreement under which Clearview AI (Clearview) agreed to pay an estimated $51.75 million to a nationwide class...more
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield has released a report detailing implementation steps and enforcement actions taken during the first six months of the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act ("OCPA"), which entered into force in July...more
Late in February, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) ordered the shutdown of Background Alert under the state’s Data Broker Registration Law. Background Alert aggregated public records to create detailed profiles...more
With attention on Democratic Attorneys General vowing to fill the void left by weakened federal regulators, and perhaps a more partisan divide on enforcement generally, a bipartisan consensus is quietly emerging in the states...more
With advances in digital technology and consumers’ insatiable appetite for “free” content, the advertising technology industry (AdTech) has played a crucial role in delivering highly personalized ad campaigns to consumers...more
In the fifth in our series of California developments, we turn to data broker obligations. There are two of note. First, the California privacy agency is moving forward Delete Act regulations it proposed earlier this year....more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced two significant enforcement actions last week – one against data broker Mobilewalla, Inc. and the other against data analytics provider Gravy Analytics, Inc. (and its subsidiary...more
On September 19, 2024, the FTC released a Staff Report on the data collection and data use practices of large social media and video streaming service (SMVSS) platforms. The Report describes how these platforms engage in...more
The Situation: California has enacted a groundbreaking new privacy law aimed at data brokers—entities that sell information about consumers with whom they do not have a direct relationship. Under the Delete Act (SB 362), data...more
On October 10, Governor Newsom signed the Delete Act ( SB 362) into law, which amends California's current data broker law to impose extensive additional disclosure and registration requirements on data brokers, and to...more
California lawmakers recently passed a law that would expand data broker registration requirements and make it easier for consumers to be “forgotten.” The Delete Act, which would amend the state’s existing Data Broker...more
Oregon recently joined Vermont and California as the third state requiring data broker registration before collecting, selling, or licensing “brokered personal data.” Several types of entities are exempt from the law. These...more
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed into law the Bill Relating to Registration of Business Entities that Qualify as Data Brokers (HB 2052) (the “Act”) on July 27, 2023. Effective January 1, 2024, the Act will require data...more
The Act Relating to Data Brokers and Consumer Protection (No. 171, 2018) (‘the Data Broker Act’), located at §§2430-31, 2447, and 2466 of Title 9 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated, went into full effect on 1 January 2019. The...more
Selling web users’ personal data is big business — with a projected worth of $400 billion by 2025. In industries as diverse as health insurance and automobile manufacturing, companies that collect and aggregate user data to...more
Your personal information is threatened by more pernicious tools and attacks each year. While this blog often describes poorly written privacy laws stifling business and dangerous bureaucratic overreach by privacy...more
On May 25, 2021, the Nevada legislature passed Senate Bill 260, which would amend the state's online privacy notice statutes. Sponsored by Nevada Senator Nicole Cannizzaro, the Bill will broaden Nevada's existing right to...more
Last week, Alaska joined the growing number of states considering comprehensive consumer privacy legislation when, at the behest of Governor Dunleavy, the Consumer Data Privacy Act was introduced in both chambers of the...more
If it’s not broker(ed) why fix it? A new data broker bill has been submitted to the Washington State House of Representatives, following in the footsteps of Vermont and California....more
As 2019 has become 2020, many businesses - including financial institutions - are rightly focused on setting up their CCPA compliance structures. But those businesses also should consider a separate yet related law passed by...more
The California Attorney General unveiled its data broker registry on Monday. On or before January 31st, companies qualifying as a “data broker” based on the prior year’s activities are required to register their name and...more
Last month, the California legislature capped its 2019 legislative session by sending five amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act to the California governor’s desk for signature. Originally published in Law360...more
Sen. Ed Markey , D-Mass., has introduced a bill (S. 2577) imposing considerable obligations on data brokers regarding their handling of personal information....more
As we march toward January 1, 2020 I want to briefly discuss data brokers, registration by data brokers and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)....more
On September 13, 2019, the California State Legislature passed several amendments to the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”), which was originally passed in 2018 as a flawed and widely-criticized piece of legislation....more