2025 Privacy Law Preview: Be Prepared
Navigating State Privacy Laws
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2023 New Data Privacy Requirements
Guidepost in Motion EP27: Privacy Matters Part 2: “TMI”-The Privacy Dilemma of Social Media
Webinar Recording – Assessing the Surge in Wiretap Litigation
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: Class Action Jurisprudence
Interview With Ayesha Minhaj, Google - Digital Planning Podcast
Colorado’s New Comprehensive Privacy Law
#WorkforceWednesday: 2020 in Review and What's to Come in 2021
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On-Demand Webinar | Protecting Information in a Work-From-Home World
New California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Regs are here, with comments open until June 2. There are a lot of issues to address, and a lot of work for companies to implement. We are talking about billions of dollars in...more
Wild, wild, west? Web tracking may be the new frontier in class action litigation. With thousands of lawsuits filed in California and increasingly in other states against organizations, including many who may not realize the...more
In a major development for businesses subject to state data privacy laws, eight state privacy regulators have joined forces to form the “Consortium of Privacy Regulators,” a bipartisan coalition aimed at coordinating...more
On April 21, 2025, the Oregon Department of Justice’s Privacy Unit reported a “big spike” in complaints about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the first quarter of 2025....more
In March, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced a consent order with an auto manufacturer alleging multiple violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act and imposing a $632,500 fine for alleged failure...more
On April 21, 2025, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law the Arkansas Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (Act), which will become effective on July 1, 2026. It draws inspiration from the...more
Topics that we often discuss on this blog are the use of third-party tracking tools and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Less discussed of late, however, is the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) which,...more
Keypoint: If signed by the governor, the Arkansas bill will create new obligations for the collection and processing of personal information for Arkansas children and teens under 16 years of age, however, compliance may prove...more
As noted in our last two client alerts, the issue as to who should be the watchdog to protect consumer personal data is coming to a head in the chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of 23andMe Holding Co and its affiliated debtors...more
23andMe, a pioneer in the DNA testing kit industry, announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and recently asked to select an independent customer data representative regarding any sale of user data....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
On March 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed against the education technology (EdTech) company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a popular learning management system. The complaint alleges that Instructure...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
Businesses that track the geolocation of individuals—whether for fleet management, sales and promotion, logistics, risk mitigation, or other reasons—should closely monitor the progress of California Assembly Bill 1355 (AB...more
Many state governments are in the thick of their legislative sessions and we continue to see a steady wave of comprehensive data privacy bills introduced. Most notably last week, Alabama representatives introduced HB 283...more
The first class action complaint was filed under Washington’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”) on February 10, 2025, more than a year after the law’s passage. When the law passed in April 2023, MHMDA was novel for its broad...more
New York State appears poised to become the fourth state to explicitly regulate consumer health data not covered by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)....more
The Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) released a new toolkit sharing with Oregonians how to protect their online information to celebrate Data Privacy Day. The toolkit includes information on how consumers can exercise their...more
With the new year just around the corner and eight new privacy laws coming online next year, December is an excellent time for companies to assess their data collection and processing practices, and take stock of any changes...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
Employers must prepare for significant amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018, as amended by the CPRA (CCPA) in 2025. The CCPA grants California residents, including employees, specific rights...more
Businesses in the US will be subject to a lot more scrutiny from consumers and regulators in 2025. With eight new data privacy laws going into effect over the course of the year, attorneys general will be eager to show...more
Perkins Coie’s Privacy & Security practice maintains this comprehensive chart of state laws regarding security breach notification. The chart is for informational purposes only and is intended as an aid in understanding each...more
In 2018, there were two comprehensive state data privacy bills introduced across the United States and a whopping zero were in effect. Fast forward six years and there have been 41 new data privacy bills considered this year...more