As one of the oldest and most recognized data privacy and security practices, we have had the honor of helping dozens of companies set up and evolve their data privacy programs over the past decade. That experience has given...more
The new California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) will come into effect January 1, 2020. In most situations, nonprofits won’t be subject to the law—but in some cases they necessarily will be and/or will otherwise need to...more
The Situation: Unanimously passed by the California state legislature, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 introduces the nation's most wide-ranging consumer data privacy laws. The Result: New consumer protections...more
On June 28, 2018, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). CCPA, unlike any other law, requires companies to honor specific privacy rights of California consumers granted under CCPA....more
...On June 28, 2018, California passed AB 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), which will become effective January 1, 2020. Introduced just a week earlier in an effort to defeat a much stricter...more
On June 28, 2018, California adopted the strictest general privacy and data security law in the country, called the “California Consumer Privacy Act” (codified in Assembly Bill 375), which will come into effect on January 1,...more
Last month the GDPR launch in the EU was punctuated by lawsuits seeking $8.8 billion from Google and Facebook. It turns out that the GDPR foreshadowed significant changes to the US data privacy landscape that came much sooner...more
June 28, 2018 will be a watershed day in the history of U.S. data privacy legislation. California has become the first state to move away from the U.S. approach of legislating data privacy in slow bits. Yesterday, both houses...more
Notice Requirements - The Privacy Shield notice requirements are more specific and detailed than what was required by the Safe Harbor regime. Safe Harbor required a privacy policy to provide information on data...more
After nearly four years of negotiation and wrangling, European Officials announced yesterday that they had finally reached agreement on the language for the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (“Regulation), which...more
In This Issue: - EU Court of Justice Creates Broad Interpretation of the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ - White House Publishes Report on Risks and Opportunities Posed by ‘Big Data’ Practices - California AG...more