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A flurry of legislative activity over the past year has brought meaningful changes to a variety of privacy and security provisions in state and federal law. At the state level, as in 2022, we have seen a handful of changes to...more
With the unanimous passage of Senate File 262 by the Iowa House and Senate and the Governor's signature Tuesday, the Hawkeye State joins California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah as one of six states with a...more
While new comprehensive state privacy laws took most of the headlines this year, security threats and incident response remain key risk factors for privacy compliance programs and the subject of important legal developments....more
2023 is going to bring big changes to Pennsylvania’s Breach of Personal Information Notification Act. Although the revisions to the law do not go into effect until May 2, 2023, now is the time for Pennsylvania entities to...more
Each Academy provides three-and-a-half days of classroom-style training covering the latest laws, regulations, and developments to help you effectively manage your organization’s compliance program. They are ideal for...more
As the world emerged from lockdown, it should come as no surprise that cybersecurity and data privacy remained dominant topics in the media and legal industry. Some of 2021 was much like 2020 – ransomware attacks continued to...more
On October 1, 2021, two Acts overhauling data privacy and cybersecurity in Connecticut took effect—the latest instance of stronger state breach reporting requirements with a safe harbor protection from litigation for...more
On June 16, and then on July 6, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law a pair of bills that together address privacy and cybersecurity in the state....more
The Texas Legislature, which meets every other year, pushed a change to its data breach notification law at the end of the session in late May, and yesterday Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill into law...more
Navigating the ever changing waters of consumer privacy could become much more challenging if the “It’s Your Data Act” (IYDA) is passed in New York. Some provisions of the proposed law may apply to any person or business,...more
While most state data breach notification statutes contain similar components, there are important differences, meaning a one-size-fits-all approach to notification will not suffice. What’s more, as data breaches continue to...more
On August 20, 2020, a criminal complaint was filed charging Joseph Sullivan, Uber’s former chief security officer, with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony in connection with an alleged attempted cover-up of a...more
The new decade has barely begun, and the world of privacy already seems set to change quickly. Here is a brief overview: New Laws In Effect as of January 1 - On January 1, 2020, new data breach notification requirements...more
Complying with changing state-level privacy laws will be a business priority in 2020. Because the United States does not have a uniform Federal privacy law, a patchwork of state rules based on where customers live poses new...more
New York’s recently enacted Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) enhances data breach notification requirements and requires covered organizations to “develop, implement and maintain” a...more
Governor Gavin Newsom just signed into law two amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that will have a direct impact on employers doing business in the state. The new amendments, signed on October 11, 2019...more
This version updates the third edition of the Survey that we circulated last year, including new statutes and amendments that have been enacted since August of 2018. This survey focuses on the data breach notification...more
With so much attention being paid to the impending California Consumer Privacy Act, it can be easy to forget that other states have privacy and data security laws too. And those laws change routinely, with potentially...more
A few weeks ago, Texas signed into law an amendment to its data breach law, capping off a busy first half of 2019 for state lawmakers in this arena. As we gear up for the second half of 2019, we thought a recap was...more
As more and larger data breaches come to light, states continue to update and expand their breach notification statutes, adding to the patchwork of notification obligations that now exists in every state. Generally speaking,...more
On June 14, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law HB 4390 to amend the state’s data breach notification law, and with that Texas joins a growing list of states passing privacy legislation in 2019. In addition to breach...more
On June 17, the New York State Senate passed S5575B, the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act to amend the state’s breach notification law, N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 899-aa. New York now joins the growing...more
As the unofficial start of summer begins, Washington and New Jersey have recently enacted two new pieces of cybersecurity legislation. ...more
The much-anticipated amendment to North Carolina’s data breach notification law that we reported on earlier this year (see here) has finally been introduced to the state’s General Assembly. The bill entitled, an Act...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect on January 1, 2020, and applies to all companies that do business in the Golden State. The new act is California’s rejoinder to Europe’s General Data Protection...more