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CLE Takeaways: Top 10 Privacy & Cybersecurity Must-Knows for 2025

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The legal landscapes for privacy and cybersecurity continue to evolve rapidly, presenting both challenges and opportunities for innovative companies. Indeed, 2024 was a busy year, with the enactment of a number of new federal...more

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Connecticut Attorney General Releases Report on Connecticut Data Privacy Act Enforcement

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On February 1, Connecticut Attorney General (AG) William Tong released a report detailing the AG’s initial efforts to enforce the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA or “the Act”) and providing recommendations on how the Act...more

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Enforcing U.S. Consumer Data Privacy Laws Part 2: State Attorney General Enforcement

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In this second installment, we focus on the role of state attorneys general in enforcing U.S. consumer data privacy laws. For our most recent previous article, click here. Most federal privacy laws do not preempt applicable...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - April 25th - 28th, Chicago, IL

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

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Connecticut Expands Breach Reporting and Creates Cybersecurity Safe Harbor

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

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Hold the punitive damages: Connecticut is latest to incentivize implementing cybersecurity frameworks

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Connecticut’s new cybersecurity standards law, which goes into effect on October 1, 2021, protects companies from punitive damages in certain data breach actions where an organization has a cybersecurity program that conforms...more

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Connecticut Enacts Legislation to Incentivize Adoption of Cybersecurity Safeguards and Expand Breach Reporting Obligations

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

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Changes in Connecticut’s Data Privacy Laws – But Not As Drastic As It Could Have Been

At the close of Connecticut’s 2021 legislative session, a pair of data protection/cybersecurity related bills made their way to Governor Ned Lamont’s desk, while a CCPA-like omnibus privacy law falling one floor vote short. ...more

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New York State Expected to Increase Enforcement of Cybersecurity Practices

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Companies should take note of two imminent developments in New York in the area of cybersecurity regulation: enforcement of the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation (Regulation) and the...more

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Employers: New York’s SHIELD Act Imposes Data Security Requirements on Companies Outside of New York, Too

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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

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Privacy and Data Security Alert | June 2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act: The Next Frontier - The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been called the beginning of America’s GDPR. As the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States, entities...more

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US Breach Laws Are Coming: Iowa

As we approach 2019, companies will want to keep in mind the changes that are coming to various US states’ breach notice laws. On January 1, 2019 Iowa’s law, which has already been amended twice since it was passed in 2008,...more

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Ohio Gives Breach Safe Harbor for Companies with Written Data Security Program

Effective November 2, 2018, companies that suffer a breach may have certain defenses in Ohio if they have a written cybersecurity program in place. Under this new law, companies can use as an affirmative defense the existence...more

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Sweeping New Colorado Data Privacy Law Impacts Health Care Industry

On May 29, 2018, the governor of Colorado signed into law HB 18-1128 (the “Privacy Law”), which made sweeping changes to Colorado’s data privacy laws and which will affect nearly every Colorado business and government entity....more

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A Bipartisan Proposal to Beef Up North Carolina's Identity Theft Protection Act

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Data privacy regulation tends to take one of two general approaches. In most of the world—but not in the United States—the approach is usually characterized as “omnibus.” Under an omnibus regime, privacy rights are defined at...more

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Update on Colorado’s Proposed Privacy and Cybersecurity Legislation

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As we first reported in our January 22, 2018, alert, the Colorado legislature is considering legislation that, if enacted, would significantly change Colorado privacy and data security law....more

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Notable New State Privacy and Data Security Laws – Part Two

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This is the second in a two-part series addressing recent developments in state privacy and data security laws. This article addresses new laws about student privacy, enforcement/ punishment for data privacy and security...more

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