Last week, the Board of the Enforcement Division of the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) approved a settlement with California-based data broker Background Alert, Inc., requiring Background Alert to cease its...more
3/12/2025
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Looking forward to 2025, more U.S. states are in line to pass omnibus data protection laws, enforcement of U.S. state data protection laws is likely to increase, and “sensitive data” concepts will similarly grow and take...more
On April 22, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a Final Rule, entitled ‘HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy’....more
5/13/2024
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The newly promulgated measures increase the threshold of data triggering security assessments and contract requirements while leaving room for Chinese authorities to heavily restrict cross-border data transfers.
In...more
4/1/2024
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New Hampshire joins New Jersey as the second state passing a data protection law in 2024. New Hampshire is the 15th overall US state to do so.
Last year proved to be a huge year in U.S. state data protection law, ending...more
New Jersey continues the 2023 trend into 2024 of U.S. states quickly passing similar, omnibus data protection laws, becoming the 14th such state to do so.
Last year proved to be a huge year in U.S. state data protection...more
Utah became the fourth U.S. state to pass an omnibus data protection law when the Utah Consumer Privacy Act was signed into law March 24, 2022.
As the page turns to a new year, a new U.S. state data protection law will...more
Efforts to Address the Lack of Federal Data Privacy Legislation in the U.S. Have Continued -
The need for federal data privacy legislation was reiterated in the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on...more
8/7/2023
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Data privacy laws have been progressing globally, but federal legislation in the U.S. has been lacking -
Businesses are facing a growing number of data privacy regulations. This is especially apparent among those in highly...more
5/22/2023
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In 2023, a number of state data protection laws will be coming into effect and a number of entities who previously were not subject to data security and data privacy obligations will soon be within the scope of these laws....more
Beginning in January 2023, three new state privacy laws (and their applicable regulations) come into effect. They largely follow in the footsteps of the California Consumer Privacy Act that took effect in 2018. The new laws...more
Beginning in January 2023, three new state privacy laws (and their applicable regulations) come into effect. Additionally, several other countries have taken steps to implement or shore up their own privacy and data...more
As drafted the new measures specify security assessment and contract requirements but leave ample room for Chinese authorities to heavily restrict cross-border data transfers.
At the end of October, China’s top privacy...more
Bill 64 largely tracks with already existing privacy regulations in other jurisdictions and will take effect over the course of the next three years, with some provisions taking effect in September 2022.
On September 21...more
10/1/2021
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As the collection and use of health data drastically expands, the agency issued a recent guidance to officially put health apps and connected medical devices “on notice.”
On September 15, the Federal Trade Commission...more
9/30/2021
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The law will take effect on November 1, 2021 giving companies under two months to ensure their privacy policies and systems comply.
On August 20, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress of China...more