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California Moves Two COVID Privacy Bills Forward

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Two bills dealing with processing COVID-19 data in California were referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Assembly Bill 660 prohibits data collected, received or prepared for purposes of contact tracing from...more

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Will The Public Health Emergency Privacy Act Make It Into the Next Stimulus Package?

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Despite several attempts, Congress has struggled to push forward a federal consumer privacy law over the past few years. But the COVID-19 pandemic, which has raised concerns regarding location monitoring, GPS tracking and use...more

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Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Regulate COVID-19 Exposure Notifications

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On June 1, 2020, U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced bipartisan legislation known as the Exposure Notification Privacy Act (Act), in the Senate. The Act would regulate the coronavirus...more

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US Privacy Law and Contact Tracing Apps: Considerations for Mitigating Risk

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Contact Tracing Is Crucial: Contact tracing is the systematic identification of infected individuals and their relevant contacts. Along with rapid testing and targeted quarantines, contact tracing is an effective and crucial...more

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MVA Monitor - June 2020

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While several bills moved forward this week (mostly small appropriations bills dealing with a single subject), only one major piece of legislation cleared the General Assembly. As of now, the Governor has yet to act on two...more

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Exposure Notification Privacy Act

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On June 1, 2020, U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced bipartisan legislation, or the Exposure Notification Privacy Act (“Act”), to the Senate. The Act would regulate coronavirus...more

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Cantwell-Cassidy Exposure Notification Privacy Act – A Bipartisan Bill on Disease Contact Tracing

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Last week, Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced the Exposure Notification Privacy Act, which would regulate...more

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Dakotas Slip in COVID-19 Contact Tracing Privacy Protection

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Pandemic contact tracing is an important tool. Operating such a tool while respecting personal privacy rights can be tricky. Just ask the state governments of North Dakota and South Dakota. The governors of the Dakotas...more

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Contradictory Responses by Privacy Regulators Post-COVID-19: Balancing the Economy With Cybersecurity in a Changed World (Privacy)

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disparate effect on privacy regulators, with varying levels of enforcement advocated by different government entities; the California Attorney General, the U.S. Department of Health & Human...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Reopening Plans and Recommended Protocols Beg New Privacy Issues

While far from getting us back to any kind of normal that predated the COVID-19 pandemic, states have begun to relax lockdown requirements and some previously-closed “nonessential” businesses are returning to operations. With...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Congressional Democrats Counter Republican COVID-19 Privacy Measure

On Thursday, May 14, House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chair Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce (CPC) Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced a bicameral counter-proposal to the...more

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COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act Announced by Republican Senators

Over the years, Congress has put forth various legislative proposals regarding data privacy. None of the past legislation received the support necessary to enable passage of a comprehensive national data privacy law....more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Federal “COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act” Proposed

A group of Republican senators has proposed a new privacy law to govern the collection and use of certain personal information thought to be both important and at risk during the current coronavirus crisis....more

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