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New Year, New State Data Privacy Laws

With the advent of a new year comes a new set of consumer data privacy laws in the United States. Five new state data privacy laws go into effect in January 2025, with additional laws coming throughout 2025 and into 2026....more

Alston & Bird

Pennsylvania Amends Data Breach Notification Law

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Pennsylvania’s Governor recently approved amendments to the Commonwealth’s data breach notification law, which represent a significant overhaul to the law. As detailed below, the amended law makes a number of material...more

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United States Looks Towards its First Cross-Border Data Transfer Regime with New Executive Order

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President Biden issued an Executive Order last month calling on the DOJ and relevant government agencies to tighten regulations on bulk data transfers to “countries of concern.” In late February, President Biden issued...more

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President Biden Issues Executive Order Empowering DOJ to Regulate the Export of Sensitive Personal Data

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On February 28, 2024, President Joe Biden issued Executive Order (“EO”) 14117, empowering the Department of Justice (DOJ) to regulate the export of certain consumer data, in order to prevent certain countries’ governments...more

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That’s a Wrap…or Not? Regulatory Data Incident Investigation Resolutions and the Path Forward

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As we discussed in part three of this series, “Navigating the Complexities of Regulatory Data Incident Investigations,” when an organization is the subject of regulatory data incident investigations, it must navigate a...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Working 9 to 5: What a Way to Rack Up BIPA Violations

February brought big changes to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) litigation landscape. On the heels of a catastrophic 228 million dollar jury verdict against BNSF, the Illinois Supreme Court issued an...more

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Jury Returns First-of-its-Kind Verdict Against Company in Biometric Class Action

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The first jury verdict to address violations under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) resulted in a $2.28 million judgment against BNSF Railway. The case involved a class of more than 40,000 truck drivers who...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Texas AG Sues Meta, Alleging Massive Collection of Face Geometries Without Consent

Texas enacted a biometric information privacy law way back in 2001, which was amended in 2009. That was a long time ago in the context of the development of privacy laws, and even longer when it comes to biometric information...more

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Privacy in the House? An Update on Florida's Data Privacy Statutes

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As the dueling Florida House and Senate consumer data privacy protection bills make their way through various committees in the Florida legislature, April 14, 2021, was the Florida House’s turn for a vote. House Bill 969...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Frequently Asked Questions About the GDPR

What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? The GDPR is an EU law that was passed by parliament and went into effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR unifies the EU under a single data protection regime for all member...more

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New Colorado Privacy Act

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Like Virginia and Washington before it, on March 19, 2021, Colorado introduced a data privacy bill, the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). As currently drafted, the CPA would be similar to other U.S. state privacy laws, including...more

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How to Develop An Effective Data Retention Policy

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Every organization needs to develop an effective data retention policy to gain visibility and control over its information. But given the increasing complexity of today’s data systems and the constantly evolving regulatory...more

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Final CCPA regulations approved, including additional changes

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On Friday, the California Attorney General issued the final implementing regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The final regulations—which had been under review by the California Office of Administrative...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Good Online Hygiene

With the world in various states of lockdown, your organization’s online presence is more important than ever…even more so with official enforcement of CCPA beginning last month. It may be a good time to spend an afternoon...more

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The Spanish DPA's new take on cookies: back to express consent

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Last November, the Spanish Data Protection Authority (Spanish DPA) published its new Guidelines on the Use of Cookies within the framework of the GDPR and Spanish E-privacy rules. ...more

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New DIFC Data Protection Law Takes Effect 1 July

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Requirements under a new Dubai International Financial Centre data protection law will apply within the DIFC from 1 July 2020. ...more

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Second Modified CCPA Draft Regulations Released—Comments Due March 27

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On March 11, The California Attorney General (CA AG) released a second set of modifications to the proposed regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)....more

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CCPA Reality Check: 10 Key Questions to Evaluate Compliance

With the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) in effect as of January 1, but regulations still being revised and finalized, businesses are struggling to know what they need to do now to comply....more

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Data Privacy Update: California AG Proposes CCPA Modifications

The California Attorney General’s office published revised proposed regulations for implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) on February 7, 2020. What are the implications for businesses trying to stay...more

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California Attorney General Releases Modifications to Proposed CCPA Regulations - Morgan Lewis Practical Advice On Privacy: Guide...

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While the final CCPA regulations remain pending, written comments on the recently released proposed modifications are due by February 25, 2020. This article highlights some of the most notable changes to the proposed...more

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Modifications to CCPA Proposed Regulations Released by California Attorney General

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On February 7, 2020, and again on February 10, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released modified proposed regulations (“Modified Proposed Regulations”) to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Cal....more

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California AG Clarifies CCPA Obligations With New Modified Regulations

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On February 7, 2020, the California Attorney General released modifications to the proposed regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the state’s sweeping privacy law that took effect on January 1. ...more

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FTC announces new and improved data security guidance

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On January 6, 2020, Andrew Smith, Director of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection, announced three significant improvements to the FTC’s approach to data security enforcement cases....more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020 #2

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Ransomware Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of $20 Billion - Confirming what we are seeing in the field, cybersecurity firm Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

California Attorney General Releases Updated Drafts of Proposed CCPA Regulations

On February 7 and again on February 10, 2020, the California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released an updated draft of proposed regulations pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).  The updated...more

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