Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Should Section 5 of the FTC Act be Amended to Add a Private Right of Action?
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Challenges of Using the Current Law to Address Dark Patterns, with Guest Gregory Dickinson, Assistant Professor, St. Thomas University
Webinar Recording: An Overview of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act
CF on Cyber: An Update on the Changes to the Florida Telemarketing Act
The U.S. is taking another swing at a federal data privacy law with the American Privacy Rights Act, or APRA. While there’s no guarantee that the APRA will become the law of the land, it’s still worthwhile to study in order...more
The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”) passed by the Utah legislature was signed into law by Governor Spencer Cox on March 24, 2022 and becomes effective December 31, 2023. While companies conducting business in Utah will...more
As of January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) is now the law of the land, having gone into effect at the beginning of this year. One of the more complex issues concerning the CCPA pertains to the...more
Senate Bill 6281, the "Washington Privacy Act" (the "Act") passed the Washington State Senate on February 14, 2020. A House committee approved an amended version of the Senate bill on March 2, 2020, which now moves to the...more
- The Washington state Senate has passed its version of a consumer data privacy bill as state lawmakers debate proposed legislation for the Washington Privacy Act, the state’s first data privacy law. - In their own bill,...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act provides some relief to financial institutions, but these carve-outs are not a “get out of jail free” card. Blank Rome’s David Oberly and First National Bank of Long Island’s Tanweer Ansari...more
On January 30, Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) introduced H.R. 5703, the Protecting the Information of our Vulnerable Children and Youth Act (Kids PRIVCY Act) that would expand requirements under the Children’s Online Privacy...more
On Jan. 6, 2020, the California attorney general (AG) released a CCPA advisory press release and reiterated what we already know – that “businesses subject to CCPA [are] required to begin complying with the law on January 1,...more
The January 1, 2020 effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has come and gone, but questions about how to comply with the law show no hint of disappearing. As companies move past their efforts to comply...more
Today’s gaming and hospitality companies are complex businesses and data driven processes and systems that collect significant and various types of customer information to provide unsurpassed customer service. ...more
On the last day of its 2019 session, the California legislature passed six bills that amend and clarify key provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), the state’s landmark 2018 data privacy law. The CCPA,...more
In keeping with the hurried passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) at inception, the California legislature passed a flurry of amendments to the embattled privacy law just hours before the deadline of the...more
Since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was enacted in June 2018, businesses have been waiting for the proposed regulations to provide guidance and potential clarifications. On October 10, 2019, California Attorney...more
Last year, the California legislature passed the sweeping California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), a far-reaching privacy law that will impact business across the country. ...more
Overview: Article 2 (see pages 3 through 10) of the California Attorney General’s CCPA draft regulations specify certain notices that must be given to consumers at the time of collection of their personal information,...more
Set to take effect January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), considered one of the most expansive U.S. privacy laws to date, places limitations on the collection and sale of a consumer’s personal...more
On September 13, the California legislature passed six bills that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Governor Gavin Newsom has one month to decide whether to sign them into law. ...more
The California legislature passed several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100 to 1798.190) (the “CCPA”) on September 13, 2019. ...more
At the close of its 2019 legislative session, the California Legislature passed five amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which now head to the Governor’s desk for signature by October 13, 2019 to be...more
Those hoping California lawmakers might delay or significantly narrow the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) before it takes effect on January 1, 2020, were disappointed last week, when the legislature...more
The long anticipated amendments to the CCPA were passed by the California Legislature in early September and now await Governor Newsom’s signature. Some of the changes were “clean up” amendments to update cross references,...more
For years now, state laws have required subject organizations to provide notification to affected data subjects and, in some instances, to state agencies, consumer reporting agencies, and the media, when they experience a...more
A little more than 100 days prior to the effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), six amendments (A.B. 25, A.B. 874, AB 1146, A.B. 1202, A.B. 1355 and A.B. 1564) to the act were approved by California...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act is almost here! The groundbreaking law takes effect January 1, 2020. Covered businesses and their service providers have already started preparing, as the CCPA continues to evolve since it...more
Employers, you are not out of the CCPA woods yet. If you have been tracking the proposed amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you know that businesses and stakeholders have been clamoring to shape the...more