On February 27, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced it reached a settlement with a data broker company that failed to register and pay an annual registration fee as required under the Delete Act. The...more
Businesses that sell data regarding California residents have been put on notice by the California Privacy Protection Agency’s (the CPPA’s) recent aggressive enforcement of the California Delete Act. On October 30, 2024, the...more
Earlier this month, after the conclusion of the public comment period, the Colorado Department of Law adopted amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), which grants rights to Colorado consumers concerning their personal...more
Under many circumstances, state privacy laws require businesses to pass a consumer’s valid deletion request to any entity that processes the data on behalf of the business or otherwise is a recipient of the data. These...more
On October 30, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced an investigative sweep to ensure data brokers comply with the Delete Act. Effective January 1, the Delete Act requires parties to register by January 31...more
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
Welcome to this month's issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice....more
In October, California enacted its newest privacy legislation, commonly referred to as the “Delete Act” (California Senate Bill No. 362). The Delete Act will allow consumers to request that any data broker that maintains any...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
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
The Utah legislature has passed Senate Bill 227, otherwise known as the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA). Barring a veto from Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox, who, as of March 15, 2022, officially has the bill on his desk for...more
This is the first in a series of articles about the implications of the California Privacy Rights Act for employers. - The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) expands employers’ obligations with respect to the privacy...more
Colorado became the third state to enact comprehensive data privacy legislation when Gov. Jared Polis signed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) on July 8, 2021. The CPA shares similarities with its stateside predecessors, the...more
On March 15, 2021, the California Attorney General (AG) announced that the California Office of Administrative Law approved a set of proposed amendments to the final California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations that...more
Here we go again! On March 15th, 2021, the California Department of Justice (“Department”) announced approval of modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (CCPA) regulations, originally introduced in December of...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—the most comprehensive personal data privacy legislation anywhere in the United States so far—is officially being enforced. Is your website in compliance? Does it need to be? What...more
Overlooked in a year dominated by a "wait-and-see" dynamic with both the finalization and enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Brazil's General Data Protection Law-Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados...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
As more organizations find themselves under scrutiny for the way they collect and use consumer data, maintaining CCPA compliance has never been more important. CCPA has been introduced to give control back to consumers,...more
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is going to be on the November 3 ballot. The CPRA would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to provide a greater level of rights for consumers and more stringent...more
In light of concerns associated with attempts to use personal data to track the spread of COVID-19, a group of Republican Senators, led by Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker, introduced the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Data Act...more
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
Shook Weighs in on Updated CCPA Regulations - In response to extensive public comment, the California Attorney General’s office released modified draft regulations under the CCPA on February 7. Shook has provided initial...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 much anticipated California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) is now in effect (as of January 1, 2020), and as we’ve recently reported, class action litigation under the CCPA has already begun. Organizations should have...more