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New California Regs Will Impact Your AI and Privacy Policies: FAQs on Automated Decision-Making, Risk Assessments, and...

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California regulators unanimously approved a sweeping set of regulations on July 24 governing the use of automated decision-making technology (ADMT) and mandating risk assessments and cybersecurity audits for businesses...more

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Connecticut AG Settles Claims Over Deficient Privacy Notice: 6 Key Lessons for Businesses that Collect and Use Consumer Data

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While website privacy notices are now commonplace – and consumers might only skim them – a recent settlement highlights the importance of staying vigilant about complying with applicable consumer privacy laws. The Connecticut...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Fragmentation of Privacy Requirements Accelerates as Four States Amend Nascent Laws

On June 25, 2025, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law a major amendment to the state’s comprehensive privacy law (CTDPA), just over three years after signing the CTDPA into law on May 10, 2022 and two years after...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Connecticut Revamps Its Privacy Law (Again)

Connecticut has made changes to its privacy law, including lower thresholds, exemptions updates, new categories of sensitive data, expanded consumer rights, and more....more

Fisher Phillips

Employer Cheat Sheet for Workplace Laws Taking Effect July 1

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Most employers are prepared for new laws at the start of each year – but did you know that a heap of new workplace laws take effect at the halfway point? Here’s your employer cheat sheet to prepare for July 1 effective dates…...more

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP

Navigating the Patchwork of State Consumer Privacy Statutes: An E-Commerce Compliance Playbook

Online retailers now face an increasingly complex matrix of state consumer-privacy statutes that impose prescriptive requirements on data collection, monetization, and cybersecurity practices. ...more

Bennett Jones LLP

BC Court Finds No Identifiable Class in Mall-Directory Camera Privacy Class Action

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In Cleaver v The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited, 2025 BCSC 910, the BC Supreme Court refused to certify a class proceeding alleging privacy breaches of biometric data, concluding that the plaintiffs had failed to...more

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Strategies for Minimizing Rising Risks to Mobile Apps from Privacy Laws

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As mobile device applications continue to proliferate – magnified in no small part by the recent surge in artificial intelligence-related tools to facilitate creation of apps – they have become indispensable tools for...more

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The Global Cross Border Privacy Rules – A new paradigm in data protection

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The launch of the Global Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) and Privacy Rules for Processors (PRP) systems on June 2, 2025 offers a framework to manage increasingly difficult standards for global data privacy governance....more

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U.S. State Privacy Regulators Create Consortium as Enforcement Trends Emerge

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Trends and areas of focus under U.S. state data protection laws emerge as U.S. states with data protection laws in place increase enforcement actions and coordination....more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Ninth Circuit Expands Specific Jurisdiction in E-Commerce: What Briskin v. Shopify Means for Online Businesses

The Ninth Circuit sitting en banc has greatly expanded the reach of personal jurisdiction by holding that e-commerce companies can be sued in any state where their platforms interact with users, even without differential...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 4, April 2025

Welcome to our fourth issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy this issue and thank you for reading. Sector by Sector: How Data Breaches are Wrecking Bottom Lines - “Data...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

Is My U.S.-Based Company Subject to the GDPR? Clearing Up European Data Privacy Law Misinformation

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If you are a compliance professional for a U.S.-based company, you have probably been told at some point that you have to worry about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Have you encountered one of these...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Courts Reject Theoretical Privacy Violations Due to Lack of Standing

Courts across the country are becoming skeptical of data breach and web tracking claims that assert theoretical privacy violations without alleging any actual injury to the plaintiffs. Recent decisions underscore that courts...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

23andWho? The fate of your DNA data after the 23andMe bankruptcy

Consumers have been trading their DNA for a personal genetic history lesson with 23andMe since 2007. The company has since become extremely popular and has collected a trove of genetic information relating to more than 14...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Reintroducing the No FAKES Act

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A bipartisan Bill aiming to protect individuals from having their voice and visual likeness used without their consent was reintroduced in Congress earlier this month....more

Troutman Pepper Locke

State AGs and the FTC Warn of 23andMe Risks Following Bankruptcy Announcement

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Several state attorneys general (AGs) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have begun scrutinizing ancestry tracking company 23andMe following its recent announcement that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As part of...more

White & Case LLP

Arkansas Attorney General Sues General Motors Over Alleged Deceptive Data Practices

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On February 26, 2025, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin filed a lawsuit against General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar (collectively, "GM"), alleging deceptive business practices related to the collection and sale of...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Honda Settles with the CPPA Over Privacy Violations: Key Takeaways for Businesses

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The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) recently announced a settlement with American Honda Motor Co., Inc. (Honda) over alleged privacy violations. The settlement arises from the CPPA’s investigation into the privacy...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

2024 State AGs Year in Review

In 2024, state attorneys general (State AGs) focused on a broad variety of areas and industries including, in particular, emerging industries such as artificial intelligence (AI) and privacy and social media protections....more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Generative AI Browser Extensions and Plug-ins: A Security and Privacy Challenge

Generative AI is incredibly popular. So popular that many GenAI tools now have browser extensions that work across all open pages of the browsers upon which they are installed. They helpfully summarize pages, highlight...more

Blank Rome LLP

The BR Privacy & Security Download: March 2025

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Welcome to this month’s issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security, & Data Protection practice....more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

Navigating Standing Considerations in Data Breach Class Actions

The growing prevalence of data breaches has led to an uptick in class action litigation based on consumers' personal information allegedly being accessed. A common theme emerging in these lawsuits is plaintiffs claiming that...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Low-Budget, High-Impact Ways to Reduce Privacy and Cybersecurity Risks in 2025‎

Know What Laws Apply - Privacy and security laws, particularly in the U.S., have changed dramatically in the last few years. It’s not surprising many leaders are unsure which new laws or updated regulations apply to their...more

Hudson Cook, LLP

CFPB Bites of the Month - January 2025 - June in January with the CFPB

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In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the January 2025 webinar....more

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