California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Gramm-Leach-Blilely Act, Data Protection

Pixel Litigation Risk at Financial Institutions

Ropes & Gray LLP on 7/14/2025

An increasingly aggressive plaintiffs’ bar has brought purported class action suits based on the nearly ubiquitous use of tracking technologies used for website analytics. Although any actual harm to the plaintiffs is...more

California Privacy Protection Agency Clarifies Application of the CCPA to Insurance Companies

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/26/2025

The California Privacy Protection Agency board voted on November 8, 2024, to advance a proposed rulemaking package for, among other things, a proposed regulation to clarify the application of the California Consumer Privacy...more

Are Employees Receiving Regular Data Protection Training? Are They AI Literate?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/19/2025

Employee security awareness training is a best practice and a “reasonable safeguard” for protecting the privacy and security of an organization’s sensitive data. The list of data privacy and cybersecurity laws mandating...more

More Privacy, Please - September/October 2023

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/28/2023

Editor’s Note: The FTC continues to crack down on privacy and cybersecurity, including issuing a new warning to tax preparation companies and entering into a consent decree with 1Health.io. VPPA and BIPA litigation continues...more

Steering Through Privacy: State Law Variation Affecting Auto Dealers

Miller & Martin PLLC on 8/3/2023

Automotive dealers and their service providers should take note of an important key difference between the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other recent state privacy laws designed to protect consumer information....more

Going Beyond HIPAA – Washington Health Privacy Law Enacted: Broad Reach, Amorphous Scope, Big Litigation Risk

Proskauer on Privacy on 5/2/2023

The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) has long been described as the floor for health care privacy laws and that states and regulators are free to enact more restrictive health care privacy laws....more

[Webcast Transcript] Today’s Privacy Reality: AI, Assessments, Breach and DSARs

HaystackID on 3/2/2023

Editor’s Note: On February 15, 2023, HaystackID shared an educational webcast to provide valuable insight into the ways in which AI is being used to address key issues in the realm of privacy and cybersecurity. The expert...more

Data Privacy in 2023: Expectations, Responsibilities & Cyber Security Tactics to Safeguard Your Information

J.S. Held on 2/9/2023

INTRODUCTION - As more of our lives and work become digitized, an inherent overlap continues to grow between data privacy and cyber security programs. Think of two similarly sized circles: in the past, data privacy and cyber...more

Understanding the American Data Privacy and Protection Act

Mintz - ML Strategies on 6/9/2022

On Friday, June 3, Representative Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the committee’s Ranking Member, and Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS), Ranking...more

Colorado Privacy Act Passes With Nationwide Implications for Businesses

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. on 7/27/2021

After California and Virginia, Colorado recently became the third state to pass a comprehensive consumer data privacy bill. Although this new Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) overlaps with the California and Virginia privacy laws,...more

Colorado’s new privacy law: How it stacks up against other US privacy laws

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 7/15/2021

There are many similarities between the Colorado Privacy Act (ColoPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Virginia Consumer Data privacy Act (VCDPA), and Europe’s GDPR,...more

Top Operational Impacts of Virginia's New Privacy Law (CDPA)

Ankura on 6/28/2021

The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) overwhelmingly passed both legislative chambers this month and is expected to be signed by the Governor in the coming weeks with an effective date of January 1, 2023. Best...more

[Webinar] U.S. Privacy Law Update: Analyzing the Colorado Privacy Act - June 15th, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/9/2021

The Colorado legislature just passed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). Once signed by the Governor, Colorado will become just the third state – after California and Virginia – to enact broad consumer data privacy legislation....more

Spring Is Hot for State Privacy Legislation

Carlton Fields on 5/7/2021

It’s a hot spring for state privacy legislation. Privacy bills are pending in roughly 20 states, and while Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) exemptions may act as a cool breeze in some, issues remain...more

Virginia Is For Lovers . . . Of Data Privacy - UPDATED March 2021

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 3/9/2021

Update: The VCDPA was signed into law by Governor Ralph Northam without amendment on March 2, 2021. The VCDPA will become operative on January 1, 2023, and businesses should remain mindful of pending legislation in states...more

Virginia is for lovers (of privacy) - The Consumer Data Protection Act passes into law

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 3/5/2021

On March 2, 2021, Governor Northam signed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA or the Act) making it the country’s second comprehensive data privacy legislation following California’s Consumer Protection Act of...more

Enforcement of the California Consumer Protection Act Begins July 1, 2020: Quick Compliance Tips

Flaster Greenberg PC on 6/22/2020

The California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) is one of the strongest and most comprehensive consumer data privacy laws in the country. It is designed to protect the data privacy rights of citizens living in California, and...more

The CCPA and Similar State Laws – Considerations for Private Investment Funds

Morgan Lewis on 2/28/2020

Managers of private investment funds that collect personal information are required to comply with the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act – with some exemptions. ...more

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

Carlton Fields on 1/15/2020

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

FinTech Forward: How to Prepare for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) - Part 2

K&L Gates LLP on 11/5/2019

In this miniseries, John ReVeal will discuss key issues and top of mind concerns for businesses under the California Consumer Privacy Act, which will go into effect January 1, 2020. In the second episode, John ReVeal...more

CCPA Amendments – What did California Actually Do?

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/18/2019

The rush for California to get all of the “rules of the road” ready for next year has seemed to cause a bit of confusion with California’s privacy law. Draft regulations were published the same day the Governor signed into...more

Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Right from Sale of Personal Information Goes into Effect

Proskauer on Privacy on 10/1/2019

Effective tomorrow, October 1, 2019, the existing Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act will be amended to include a consumer right to opt out from the sale of personal information and to...more

ISO/IEC 27701 Released as a New Standard for Privacy Compliance

Foley & Lardner LLP on 9/9/2019

On August 6, 2019, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) released ISO/IEC 27701 (ISO 27701), a privacy extension to ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002...more

Are Banks and Other Lenders Subject to the CCPA?

Carlton Fields on 8/30/2019

California’s new privacy statute imposes a number of new requirements on businesses that touch the personal information of California consumers. Its reach includes banks and financial services companies....more

Nevada Adds “Do Not Sell” Requirement to Privacy Law

BakerHostetler on 6/6/2019

Last week, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed new privacy legislation into law in Nevada. Senate Bill 220 (SB-220) updates Nevada Revised State 603A to provide consumers a new right to opt out of the sale of their data....more

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