Data Revolution: How U.S. Privacy Laws Change the Way Data Should be Managed by Retail and Tech Industries
This breakout series will discuss the latest U.S. privacy compliance programs, and how trends such as sale opt-out and cookie banners are part of the “data revolution”. The series will also cover the intersection of...more
The Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA or Act) became law on September 11, 2023, making Delaware the 13th state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy law, joining California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut,...more
Last year, Virginia became the second state (after California) to enact a consumer privacy law. That law, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), went into effect on January 1, 2023....more
The start of 2023 has brought with it significant changes to data privacy – new state laws concerning data privacy came into effect January 1 (the California Privacy Rights Act and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act),...more
Editor’s Note: On September 29, 2022, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on the topic of US privacy law. As privacy continues to move to the forefront of not only information consideration but of business concern for...more
Keypoint: The comments focus on identifying areas in which the Attorney General’s Office may provide additional clarity to consumers and businesses and to ensure, where appropriate, the interoperability of the Colorado...more
In an opinion released on March 10, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta addressed the applicability of the “right to know” under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) (pdf) to internal inferences that...more
On Tuesday, June 15, 2021, a French court ordered IKEA to pay 1 million euros ($1.2 million) for spying on its employees in France. The allegations included reviewing employees' bank account records, using fake employees to...more
COVID-19 drove many formerly in-person interactions onto a variety of video conferencing platforms. But as millions of vaccinations are administered each day, and case numbers decline, it’s now possible to imagine and plan...more
On August 14, 2020, the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the final regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which had been submitted by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to the...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect earlier this year, has left many employers in the Golden State scrambling to comply with privacy regulations concerning the collection and use of personal data...more
With the enactment of the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA”), companies have been forced to cope with a shifting privacy landscape that impacts the data that...more
As the CCPA’s effective date approaches, businesses are actively monitoring how companies are updating their privacy notices to comply with the new disclosure requirements of the Act. While many companies are prepared to...more
On April 16, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a Risk Alert summarizing numerous issues it found in its recent examinations of SEC-registered...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") was enacted in early 2018 as a political compromise to stave off a poorly drafted, and plaintiff’s friendly ballot initiative. Although the CCPA is scheduled to go into force in...more
The California Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2018 (“CPPA”) is arguably the most comprehensive - and complex - data privacy regulation in the United States. The CCPA was designed to emulate the European General Data...more
Privacy is serious business. This was made clear in the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent announcement that it had settled its complaint against Venmo, PayPal’s peer-to-peer payment service, for misrepresentations to...more
Following the recent Equifax data breach wherein millions of consumers’ private information may have been compromised, it is increasingly clear that consumer-interfacing businesses need to, and in some cases are required to,...more
Manufacturers of Internet-connected devices (better known as the Internet of Things) should be following a new California bill closely because it would create a mandate under California law that all IoT devices have built-in...more