Most privacy eyes are currently focused on the new EU Model Clauses and forthcoming U.S. state laws that take effect in 2023. As the summer heats up, however, compliance professionals should look to the western U.S. states of...more
Virginia knocked off California’s crown as the only U.S. state to have a comprehensive, general consumer privacy law when Governor Ralph Northam signed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“CDPA”) into law on March 2,...more
On November 3, 2020, California voters passed Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”).
The provision’s timeline is important to consider. The law would become effective on January 1, 2023 with enforcement...more
11/18/2020
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On Tuesday September 29, 2020, the California Governor signed AB 1281, which extends the CCPA’s personnel and “business communications” exceptions’ effective period for one additional year. Those exceptions were set to sunset...more
With slightly less than one month before the July 1, 2020 enforcement date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), California’s Attorney General announced on June 2, 2020 that he had submitted the proposed final...more
It’s us again, back with more operationally-focused pointers on the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) now that the music has stopped once more and everybody is looking for a place to sit. On Friday February 7th, the...more
When the smoke cleared from California’s privacy legislative battles that ended on September 13th, many were surprised to see another large alien life form snorting alongside the CCPA. AB 1202 requires the registration of...more
9/17/2019
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On Friday, September 13th, the California legislature passed several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), and created a new "data broker" registration law that deserves its own blog post and heightened...more
US law fails to grasp the business uses and technical complexities of biometric data. Consent-based models, such as in Illinois, Texas, and Washington, are often wholly incompatible with the public and private sectors’ uses...more
The privacy world has been abuzz about a great post on Brookings’ TechTank blog by Cameron Kerry and John Morris, Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy. Poor Richard was impressed with its...more
Don’t worry about the new Nevada privacy law, SB 220 signed by the Governor last month, unless you’re selling personal information to a data broker, said no law firm whatsoever in its legal alert. At best they bury the lead,...more
2019 is a nonstop carnival of consultants and lawyers sending you hither and thither as each new state effort to solve the purported ills of the digital world flashes its shiny omnibus bill for a moment before being dragged...more