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The past few years have seen a surge of activities from states with respect to the introduction and adoption of consumer privacy bills. These bills vary from state to state, but generally include requirements around data...more
Following a statewide ban on employment non-compete agreements that went into effect in 2023, a new Minnesota law that took effect on July 1, 2024, has expanded the state’s limitations on restrictive employment covenants, now...more
In 2018, there were two comprehensive state data privacy bills introduced across the United States and a whopping zero were in effect. Fast forward six years and there have been 41 new data privacy bills considered this year...more
In this blog post, we will focus on obligations that the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) sets for deployers, providers, importers and distributors regarding high-risk AI systems....more
Minnesota’s legislature rushed through several bills this year affecting recruiting and staffing associations and other service providers such as property management companies. One such law may, as one member of the Minnesota...more
A new Minnesota law taking effect on July 1, 2024, will ban the use of nonsolicitation agreements by staffing agencies and other service providers to prevent their customers, or the companies that contract for the staffing...more
The new rules about chaperones for physicians in private practice (not hospitals or hospital-employed physicians) go into effect October 1, 2023. The rule is promulgated by the Medical Examining Board (MEB), which does not...more
There will be additional compliance obligations and mandatory contractual provisions introduced for financial entities and outsourced IT service providers. The new DORA seeks to strengthen the resilience of financial...more
House Bill 14 (by Harris (R), House District 8, Palestine, Anderson County, Texas) - Effective September 1, 2023 - THIRD-PARTY REVIEW OF PLATS, PLANS, PERMITS AND INSPECTIONS - HB 14 adds a new Chapter 247 to the...more
The ability to verify compliance with applicable law, notice and opt-out requirements for subcontractors, and flowing through data minimization principles are key requirements under new US state data protection laws. As...more
On November 8, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Consumer Credit Fairness Act (Act) (S.153/A.2382). The Act contains a series of amendments to New York’s Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR) that...more
Effective October 23, 2019 for changes in data breach notification requirements, and March 21, 2020 for new data security requirements, New York’s “Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act” (SHIELD Act) broadens...more
On May 29, 2019, Nevada’s governor approved a new privacy law, Senate Bill 220 (“SB 220”). SB 220 amends existing state law that requires operators of websites and online services (“Operators”) to post privacy notices on...more
On June 14, 2019, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed HB 996, which amends Chapter 392 of the Texas Finance Code dealing with debt collection. The amendments are effective September 1, 2019. ...more
Effective this week, law enforcement in Utah will need a search warrant to obtain for certain electronic records. The new state legislation looks to expand privacy protections for content that consumers store online....more
Ohio recently followed South Carolina as the second state to adopt cybersecurity legislation modeled after the NAIC’s Insurance Data Security Model Law. The Ohio law, Senate Bill 273, applies to insurers authorized to do...more
On January 1st, South Carolina became the first state to adopt the model insurance data security law requiring certain insurance licensees to investigate and report cybersecurity events in the state of South Carolina. The law...more
What You Need to Know Now - • The new law takes effect January 1, 2020, but there’s a lot to do so you need to start work now. • The new law expands the definition of personal information and gives California consumers...more
• California recently passed the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act that goes into effect in 2020, which grants California residents new privacy rights. • The CCPA creates a private right of action for California...more
On May 29, 2018, Colorado passed House Bill 18-1128, which requires "covered entities" to comply with new rules regarding the security and disposal of "personal identifying information" (PII). The new law also provides an...more
Colorado has enacted groundbreaking privacy and cybersecurity legislation that will require covered entities to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures, dispose of documents containing confidential information...more
Subject to limited exceptions, federal, state, and local laws already require employers to pay men and women equally for doing similar work under similar working conditions. In another important effort to narrow the gender...more
Governor John Hickenlooper recently signed a bill extending until September 1, 2028, the Colorado Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (CFDCPA), which prohibits harassment, misleading, and unfair practices in the collection of...more
On May 10, 2017, an ordinance was adopted by the French government ("Ordinance") in order to promote the use of bonds governed by French law as a financing instrument. The Ordinance seeks to modernize the French legal...more
Law enforcement requests for electronic information, particularly from technology companies such as Google and Twitter, have skyrocketed in recent years. In response, several states—Maine and Texas in 2013, Utah in 2014 and...more