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Burr & Forman

Is Your Business’s Privacy Policy a Bull's Eye?

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We work with many US-based businesses that ask us to update their privacy policies to make sure they comply with current data protection laws that apply to them. These businesses are usually referring to their website privacy...more

Fisher Phillips

FAQs for Businesses as Texas Data Privacy Law Takes Effect July 1

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Texas will soon be the next state to have a comprehensive consumer data privacy and security law when the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act takes effect on July 1. It will require businesses to take several compliance...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Pet Stairs, Wiretapping, and Cookies: Implications of the Third Circuit’s Popa Opinion

The case of Popa v. Harriet Carter Gifts, Inc. “began with a quest for pet stairs.” Plaintiff Ashley Popa searched Harriet Carter Gifts’ website, added pet stairs to her cart, but never completed the purchase. During her...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Dark Patterns and the CCPA: How Your Website Can Comply

The California Attorney General recently approved modified regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). One part of the modified regulations bans “dark patterns” on a website. What are dark patterns?...more

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Biometric Privacy Developments

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Biometric privacy litigation has exploded in the last several years, with the current hot spot focus in Illinois. Class actions under the Illinois Biometric Information and Privacy Act (“BIPA”) have flooded the Illinois state...more

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The CCPA Is Live for Enforcement—Is Your Website in Compliance?

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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

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7 Tips to Make Your Website CCPA Compliant

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On Friday, California's Office of Administrative Law officially approved final regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), arguably the nation’s most comprehensive legislation governing the collection,...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Good Online Hygiene

With the world in various states of lockdown, your organization’s online presence is more important than ever…even more so with official enforcement of CCPA beginning last month. It may be a good time to spend an afternoon...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

10 Privacy Predictions for 2020

In the last two years, businesses have been catapulted into a dizzying new world, with privacy expectations and requirements that were unheard of just two years ago. ...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Florida’s Proposed Privacy Legislation: An In-Depth Analysis for Corporate Counsel

The Florida Senate and House of Representatives are considering two bills (SB 1670 and HB 963) that, if adopted, will amend Florida law to create the state’s first comprehensive privacy law (though they do not go nearly as...more

Carlton Fields

Florida’s Legislature to Consider Consumer Data Privacy Bill Akin to California’s CCPA

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Florida lawmakers have proposed data privacy legislation that, if adopted, would impose significant new obligations on companies offering a website or online service to Florida residents, including allowing consumers to “opt...more

Hogan Lovells

IAB Soliciting Comments on Draft Compliance Framework for Programmatic Advertising under the CCPA

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On October 22, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a media and marketing industry trade group, released for public comment the California Consumer Privacy Act Compliance Framework for Publishers and Technology Companies...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019 #2

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The Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently issued a public service announcement warning private companies about the increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting private industry....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Modifications Under CCPA To Receipt of Consumer Requests

One of the CCPA amendments that has gone to the governor’s desk is AB 1564, which addresses the methods companies must make available to consumers to exercise their rights under CCPA. Businesses which operate exclusively...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

The Privacy Race – Nevada in the lead with new laws effective October 1

Nevada will beat California in the US race to implement privacy requirements on businesses. Effective October 1, 2019, companies must comply with Nevada’s new law governing the sale of personal information. Generally,...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Nevada: Bucking the Wait and See Approach to Consumer Privacy Law

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In our May blog post, we took issue with the broadcast statement that ‘consumer privacy law was sweeping the country and that other states were jumping on the California Consumer Privacy Law (CCPA) bandwagon to enact their...more

Carlton Fields

The CCPA Has Placed a Mandatory Link on Your Company’s Homepage

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If a company sells personal information of California consumers, then the California Legislature has claimed real estate on its homepage. This article summarizes this new requirement of a “Do Not Sell My Personal Information”...more

Hogan Lovells

Dutch Data Protection Authority States Cookie Walls Violate GDPR

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On 7 March 2019, the Dutch Data Protection Authority published guidance (in Dutch) that it considers “cookie walls” to violate the GDPR. A cookie wall is a pop-up on a website that blocks a user from access to the website...more

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Homie Can’t Do That

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The Arizona Attorney General recently reached an agreement with Utah-based real estate company Homie which made a splash in the Phoenix market during the fall election with candidate-type signage posted throughout the...more

Nossaman LLP

GDPR COMPLIANCE DEADLINE IS MAY 25, 2018: Privacy Regulation is a Moving Target

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Worldwide, companies are scrambling to meet the May 25th deadline to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For companies with physical operations in an EU member state, this deadline is...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

New EU Data Laws—What Nonprofit Organizations Need To Know; Including Template for US/EU Privacy Notice

How will the new European Union data protection law affect U.S. nonprofit organizations? Nonprofit organizations based in the U.S. can often handle large amounts of data which originates in the EU—for example, they may...more

Stinson LLP

Children's Products and the "Internet of Things": Data Privacy Beyond COPPA

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In this internet age, "smart" children’s products—those that collect, transmit or store electronic data—are on the rise. By some estimates, the smart toy market will reach $11.3 billion in sales by 2020. Manufacturers of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Nevada Implements Law that Requires Notice for Collection of Personal Information

Nevada has become the third state in the Union to adopt a law that requires operators of websites and online services to provide notice to consumers who are Nevada residents of their practices around the collection and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

California Amends Definition of Personal Identifiable Information and Breach Notification Content Requirements

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On October 6, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law several changes to California’s Data Breach Notification Statute. The law, as amended, adds additional categories of information into the definition of...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Russian Data Protection Authority, Roskomnadzor, Enforces New Russian Data Localization Law

On September 9, 2015, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (the “Roskomnadzor”) reported on its website that it blocked an extensive online database of more...more

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