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Over the weekend, lawmakers unveiled the latest push for a federal privacy law – the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA). The bill was circulated as a discussion draft by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chair of the Senate...more
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California consumers may exercise certain rights in relation to their personal information – and businesses have strict deadlines to respond to such consumer requests. These...more
On Thursday, May 11, Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed into law the Tennessee Information Protection Act. The new TIPA follows the recent enactment of data privacy laws in Iowa and Indiana. The other states with data privacy laws are...more
On the heels of the unanimous passage of Iowa’s Act Relating to Consumer Data Protection on March 28, Indiana’s Consumer Data Protection Act was passed by the state legislature on April 13 and has been signed into law by Gov....more
In this second post in our ongoing series, we examine the scope of rights given to consumers under the recently enacted My Health My Data Act... The law provides consumers several rights, all of which are in other privacy...more
The Indiana Legislature is poised to pass Senate Bill 5, a comprehensive privacy statute (the “Act”), and send it on to the Governor. Once signed, the Act will become operative on January 1, 2026, and make Indiana the seventh...more
Iowa will soon be the sixth state in the nation with a comprehensive consumer privacy law – but the good news for employers is that it does not apply to data collected in the employment context and does not include a private...more
Keypoint: The draft CPA rules retain the hallmarks of what makes the CPA rules unique but contain some notable revisions and clarifications. On Friday, January 27, 2023, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office published the...more
On March 3, 2022, the Utah House of Representatives passed a consumer privacy bill: the Utah Consumer Privacy Act. The bill had already passed the Utah Senate in February, and at the time of this writing, awaits a signature...more
On November 3, 2020, California voters approved Proposition 24, a ballot initiative which enacted the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The CPRA amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the most sweeping...more
Interested parties have until November 8 to submit comments on proposed topics of CPRA rulemaking including new automated decisionmaking, risk assessments, new consumer rights, and sensitive personal information. On...more
Keypoint: As introduced, the Ohio Personal Privacy Act would provide Ohio residents with some rights regarding their personal data, but it is not as extensive as the CPRA, CPA, and VCDPA...more
Earlier this week, the Commonwealth of Virginia became the second state to enact comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation, joining California. On March 2, Governor Ralph Northam signed the Consumer Data Protection Act...more
In November, California voters took a (yet another) sharp turn in the data privacy lane and passed Proposition 24, better known as the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). This replaces the California Consumer Privacy Act...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
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
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect on New Year’s Day. California is the first state in the union to create a data privacy law for its residents. Other states will follow soon. For compliance purposes,...more
On January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) becomes effective, and businesses around the world will be responsible for handling the personal information of Californians in accordance with the requirements...more
As goes California, so goes the nation. Therefore, it is not surprising that the first state in the union to create a law to protect citizen privacy is California. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will take...more
New York’s state legislature is considering a new data privacy law that would set the standard for data privacy in the U.S. The New York Privacy Act (the “NYPA” or the “Act”), which is currently being considered by the state...more
California recently enacted the Consumer Privacy Act, the most stringent privacy law in the United States. Although it does not go into effect until January 1, 2020, most companies will need a number of months to prepare. The...more