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What Bankers Need to Know to Comply With State Privacy Laws

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 8/19/2025

It’s no secret that states are focused on implementing consumer privacy laws given the ubiquity of personal data that is gathered, processed, stored and shared for commercial activities, including those involving financial...more

Legislators Announce Compromise U.S. Federal Privacy Bill with Support in both the House and Senate

Hogan Lovells on 6/14/2022

Momentum is growing for a federal privacy law in the United States. A bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders have released a discussion draft of a baseline consumer data protection legislation. The American Data...more

New Federal Privacy Bill Introduced – Could 2021 Be the Year?

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/12/2021

Bloomberg reported this week that the first comprehensive federal privacy bill of the year was introduced by Representative Suzan DelBene (D-Washington). The bill is known as the Information Transparency and Personal Data...more

Federal Privacy Law Efforts Move Forward in Congress

Wiley Rein LLP on 10/5/2020

As fall has arrived, so has a flurry of privacy activity on Capitol Hill. Though this Congress is highly unlikely to pass any privacy legislation before the end of the Term, the latest developments reflect efforts by key...more

Washington State Lawmakers Divided Over Private Right of Action and Other Relief in Dueling Data Privacy Bills

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 2/19/2020

- The Washington state Senate has passed its version of a consumer data privacy bill as state lawmakers debate proposed legislation for the Washington Privacy Act, the state’s first data privacy law. - In their own bill,...more

[Podcast] What’s New in Washington: Spotlight on Privacy Legislation

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/9/2020

In this episode, Akin Gump public law and policy partner Ed Pagano and senior policy advisor Galen Roehl discuss privacy legislation being considered in the U.S. Congress....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

Status Report on Federal Privacy Developments Heading into the Fall

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/26/2019

• The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The window of opportunity to pass federal privacy legislation to preempt the CCPA in the 116th Congress is rapidly closing. • Discussions are...more

Preemption: The Fight for the Supreme Law of the Land

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 6/19/2019

Once again, the question of federal preemption of state laws has created battle lines within the halls of Congress. As with past fights over vehicle fuel efficiency standards, voting rights protections or myriad areas of the...more

U.S. Congress Focused on Federal Privacy Legislation in Wake of California Consumer Privacy Act

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/19/2019

As companies are working to re-evaluate their privacy programs following the enactment of California's groundbreaking privacy law, eyes are now on the U.S. Congress as to whether a federal privacy standard can be achieved....more

California Consumer Privacy Act: The Challenge Ahead — Introduction to Hogan Lovells’ Blog Series

Hogan Lovells on 9/13/2018

Groundbreaking. Watershed. Unprecedented. - We have heard the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) called all these things and more since its enactment on June 28, ?2018. Our experience to date has confirmed the...more

CalCoPA – Does It Apply to Your Organization?

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 9/6/2018

As discussed in Part 1, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CalCoPA) is a game-changing privacy act that sets a new bar for consumer privacy rights in the U.S. The primary reason it differs from existing legislation...more

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