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Year in Review: 2024 CCPA Litigation Trends

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While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its extensive privacy compliance obligations, the law also provides for a limited private right of action for certain security-related breaches....more

Burr & Forman

Vermont Slated to Grant a Private Right of Action to Consumers in New Data Privacy Bill

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As Vermont joins the growing number of states with comprehensive consumer data privacy laws, it stands out from the crowd with the ability of Vermonters to bring a private right of action (PRA) against large data holders. In...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Mintz May Madness: Tennessee’s Information Protection Act Gets Us Thinking About NIST(y) Safe Harbors

The Volunteer State became the eighth state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law after Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed the Tennessee Information Protection Act (“TIPA”) into law yesterday, May 11. Tennessee joins a growing...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

My Health, My Data, My Class Action Lawsuit: Why the Washington My Health My Data Act Deserves EVERY Company’s Attention

To say there’s been a lot of new privacy law in the last decade is an understatement. For those of us who think we’ve “seen it all,” many of these new laws arrive and elicit a sense of challenge (for the optimists) or mild...more

Mintz - ML Strategies

Understanding the American Data Privacy and Protection Act

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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

Bowditch & Dewey

Massachusetts Moving Closer to Comprehensive Data Privacy Protection

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is moving closer to passing consumer data privacy protection legislation with bipartisan support. The Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

CCPA Litigation Round-Up: Q3 & Q4 2020

It has been a full year since the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) took effect at the top of 2020. In the cases filed in the second half of the year, the complaints more frequently assert a violation of the CCPA as a...more

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Canada Introduces the Consumer Privacy Protection Act

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On November 17, 2020, the Canadian House of Commons introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020 (“DCIA”), which includes the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (“CPPA”), a privacy focused arm of the legislation. The...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

Is New York’s New Consumer Privacy Bill a Bridge Too Far?

Navigating the ever changing waters of consumer privacy could become much more challenging if the “It’s Your Data Act” (IYDA) is passed in New York. Some provisions of the proposed law may apply to any person or business,...more

Alston & Bird

A CCPA Private Right of Action on the Horizon: Class Action Complaints Test Whether Plaintiffs Can Sue for Any Violation of the...

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Plaintiffs’ counsel have started to lay the groundwork for a broad private right of action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The first part of this article provides an overview of how the CCPA addresses...more

Fisher Phillips

The First Wave of CCPA Class Action Litigation

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California’s all-inclusive privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect on January 1, 2020, has already been cited in numerous lawsuits. Over this next year, employers are likely to see lawsuits...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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

- 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

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Washington State Takes Center Stage for Privacy Legislation

As the 2020 legislative session begins, Washington State looks like Ground Zero for privacy bills....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Tracking Privacy: State Developments to Keep an Eye On

We are a little more than two weeks into the new year and we’ve already seen several states introduce comprehensive privacy legislation on the heels of California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). It is no easy task to stay on...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

CCPA Implementation: An Early Map

The January 1, 2020 effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has come and gone, but questions about how to comply with the law show no hint of disappearing. As companies move past their efforts to comply...more

BakerHostetler

Words Matter: Interpreting the CCPA’s Private-Right-of-Action Provision

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Subject to certain exceptions, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides a private right of action to “[a]ny consumer whose nonencrypted and nonredacted personal information … is subject to an unauthorized access...more

McGuireWoods LLP

CCPA Review: The CCPA May Prohibit Some, But Not All, State Consumer Protection Law Claims

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In less than one month, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) will go into effect and begin a new era of data breach litigation. While the California Attorney General is charged with generally enforcing the...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Data Breaches and Damages: Consumer Action Under the CCPA

With less than two months to go before the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018’s (“CCPA”) effective date of January 1, 2020, businesses should be aware of the potential litigation that awaits them....more

Balch & Bingham LLP

Senate Democrats Introduce the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA)

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On November 26, 2019, a comprehensive federal privacy bill was introduced that would grant individuals broad rights with respect to their data, impose new obligations on data processors, and expand the Federal Trade...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Be Careful What You Say About the CCPA

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As privacy and personal data issues continue to be a focus of both legal action and media coverage, privacy policy statements are getting dusted off and reviewed by more eyes. Imprecise or inaccurate policy statements,...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Countdown to the California Consumer Protection Act: Charting a Course to CCPA-Readiness

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) becomes operative on January 1, 2020. See Cal Civ. Code § 1798.100 et al. To date, the CCPA is the most sweeping consumer privacy law in the United States, covering most for-profit...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Status Report on Federal Privacy Developments Heading into the Fall

• 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

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Final CCPA Amendments Awaiting Governor’s Signature – and a New Ballot Initiative Is in the Works

On September 13, the California legislature passed six bills that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Governor Gavin Newsom has one month to decide whether to sign them into law. ...more

BakerHostetler

CCPA Amendments – Where They Stand Today

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A little more than 100 days prior to the effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), six amendments (A.B. 25, A.B. 874, AB 1146, A.B. 1202, A.B. 1355 and A.B. 1564) to the act were approved by California...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New Nevada Privacy Law Takes Effect in October - Comparison of Nevada Law to CCPA

On May 29, 2019, Nevada’s governor approved a new privacy law, Senate Bill 220 (“SB 220”). SB 220 amends existing state law that requires operators of websites and online services (“Operators”) to post privacy notices on...more

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