On April 4, 2024, Kentucky became the fifteenth state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law, with Governor Andy Beshear signing the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (KCDPA) into law. The Kentucky law will go into...more
6/3/2024
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
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The Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), which will go into effect July 1, 2023, is now the fifth and latest comprehensive state consumer privacy law, giving companies doing business in the state less than two years to...more
With the recent signing of the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) by Gov. Spencer J. Cox on March 24, 2022, Utah has become the fourth state to enact a comprehensive law addressing consumer data privacy, joining California,...more
On October 1, 2020, the three-month grace period for businesses to comply with the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Data Protection Law (DIFC Law No. 5 of 2020) (“DPL 2020”) came to an end. Regulating the...more
10/2/2020
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Dubai ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Notice Requirements ,
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Personal Data ,
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On July 16, 2020, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg handed down its highly anticipated judgment in a case brought by privacy activist Max Schrems (C-311/18, Data Protection...more
7/20/2020
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Standard Contractual Clauses
Data protection authorities (DPAs) in the European Union (EU) continue to scrutinize practices in the adtech sector for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local data protection and...more
8/6/2019
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Data Collection ,
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Data Use Policies ,
Electronic Communications ,
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
Marketing ,
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Personal Data ,
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A year ago, on May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. With its extraterritorial scope and detailed requirements, the GDPR aimed to change the approach to personal data...more
5/31/2019
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Telemarketing
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which revised and sought to ensure greater harmonization of the European Union’s data protection framework, took effect in May 2018. Among the changes it introduced was the...more
2/21/2019
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Data Privacy ,
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Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Subjects Rights ,
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Extraterritoriality Rules ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Goods or Services ,
International Data Transfers ,
Proposed Guidance