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Unpacking Dark Patterns

Cozen O'Connor on 2/26/2025

“Dark patterns” have increasingly been the focus of legislative and regulatory scrutiny. Yet the phrase is never used in business. No business designs a website, mobile app, or business process with the instruction, “let’s...more

Virginia Becomes the Second State—and the First on the Eastern Seaboard—to Adopt a Comprehensive Data Protection Law

Brooks Pierce on 3/31/2021

In March of 2021, Virginia became the second state to adopt a comprehensive data protection law. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, borrows many concepts from the...more

Google To Pay $57 Million For GDPR Violations

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 2/14/2019

On January 21, 2019, the French data protection supervisory authority (“CNIL”) fined Google €50 million (approximately $57 million) for violating the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). ...more

2018 Digital Health Data Developments – Navigating Change in 2019

McDermott Will & Schulte on 2/5/2019

Data privacy and security legislation and enforcement saw significant activity in 2018 and early 2019. McDermott’s 2018 Digital Health Year in Review: Focus on Data report – the first in a four-part series – highlights...more

GDPR Alert: Google Gets Biggest Fine Ever Issued by a European Data Protection Authority

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 1/23/2019

On 21 January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “French DPA”) fined Google LLC 50 million euros for breach of the GDPR. As we reported on this blog, just after GDPR became applicable, noyb.eu (None of Your...more

California Passes the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

Polsinelli on 7/2/2018

On June 28, 2018, Governor Jerry Brown signed a new privacy law that will allow California residents to exercise more control over the personal information companies collect on them and impose new penalties for noncompliance....more

SEC Issues New Cybersecurity Guidance; Makes Clear that Cybersecurity Disclosures Are Part of Existing SEC Requirements - Guidance...

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/26/2018

On Feb. 21, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued interpretive guidance on its expectations for corporate disclosures on cybersecurity risks. The guidance delineates where it believes existing SEC rules...more

In Principle: 10 Things Authorised Firms Need to Know for 2018 – The World of Financial Regulation as the UK Prepares to Exit the...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/25/2018

There is much for authorised firms to consider in the year ahead. Firms have been through the intensive period of the enactment of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), but must now step up their...more

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