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Preparing for the European Health Data Space - Opportunities and Challenges for Europe’s Digital Future

Latham & Watkins LLP on 4/18/2025

The EU regulation designed to facilitate secondary use of clinical data for research brings benefits for health research, but also poses challenges for companies....more

Another Data Privacy Law? Colorado Enacts the Colorado Privacy Act

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 7/22/2021

Colorado became the third state to enact comprehensive data privacy legislation when Gov. Jared Polis signed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) on July 8, 2021. The CPA shares similarities with its stateside predecessors, the...more

A Spate of Legislative Action Portends a Busy Year in Privacy and Security

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 1/14/2020

The new decade has barely begun, and the world of privacy already seems set to change quickly. Here is a brief overview: New Laws In Effect as of January 1 - On January 1, 2020, new data breach notification requirements...more

Nevada Consumers Can Now Opt-Out of a Sale of Personal Information

Polsinelli on 6/6/2019

On May 29, 2019, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed into law Senate Bill 220 (SB 220), which allows a Nevada consumer to “opt-out” of the sale of his or her personal information to a third party. ...more

California Consumer Privacy Act

Buchalter on 9/21/2018

California recently enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) which calls for companies to fundamentally change certain practices relating to the collection and use of personal information. Similar to the European...more

July 2018 IP Update: So You Thought the GDPR Was Fun? Wait Till you See What California Has In Store

Sunstein LLP on 8/10/2018

On June 28, the Governor of California signed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. The Act becomes effective on January 1, 2020. It includes some of the novel aspects of the EU’s General Data Privacy Regulation...more

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

Proskauer on Privacy on 7/16/2018

This has been a big year in the data protection world, with the headline-grabbing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) occupying most of the spotlight with its plethora of privacy-related requirements and potential for...more

California and GDPR “Light”: A Match Made in Plaintiffs’ Lawyers’ Heaven?

Vedder Price on 7/16/2018

Just when you thought it was safe to open your e-mail again without being inundated with updated privacy policies, here comes the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). The new law, which goes into effect on...more

GDPR Sidebar: Comparing the California Consumer Privacy Act to the GDPR

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 7/13/2018

California recently passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), providing new rights for California consumers (broadly defined as California residents) regarding their personal data. The CCPA is modeled after the EU’s...more

California’s Data Privacy Law: What It Is and How to Comply (A Step-By-Step Guide)

Dickinson Wright on 7/13/2018

Just as U.S. companies were settling into the idea of the EU’s General Protection Act (GDPR), California just passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100 et seq. (CCPA), which will require...more

California Consumer Privacy Act: European-Style Privacy With Worldwide Implications

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/10/2018

California enacted a sweeping new data privacy law on June 28, 2018, just one week after it was introduced in the California legislature in part to head off an effort to pass a stricter data privacy law as a ballot measure...more

California’s Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 – Get Ready for New GDPR Style Requirements in the US

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/6/2018

At the end of June, the California legislature passed its Bill 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. The Act contains a number of concepts that would be familiar to those who are working to bring their companies...more

Dropping another Stone in the Pond? California’s New Consumer Privacy Act

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/6/2018

California may have again taken the privacy protection lead among U.S. jurisdictions with the Governor’s signing on June 28, 2018 of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (AB 375) (the “Act”). Privacy and security...more

California Adopts Sweeping Consumer Privacy Law

Jones Day on 7/5/2018

The Situation: Unanimously passed by the California state legislature, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 introduces the nation's most wide-ranging consumer data privacy laws. The Result: New consumer protections...more

California Moves Towards GDPR-like Privacy Protections in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/3/2018

...On June 28, 2018, California passed AB 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), which will become effective January 1, 2020. Introduced just a week earlier in an effort to defeat a much stricter...more

California Passes Strict Privacy Law Raising the Bar for Many U.S. Businesses

Stinson LLP on 7/3/2018

On June 28, 2018, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), which provides what is arguably the most restrictive privacy law in the U.S. and would likely have some effect on most businesses across...more

California Enacts “GDPR-Esque” Privacy Law

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/3/2018

On June 28, 2018, the California state legislature passed, and Governor Jerry Brown signed, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, bringing to the United States many of the rights and compliance obligations currently...more

Expect California's Privacy Act to Impact Your Business, Whether in California or Not

Lowndes on 7/2/2018

It appears a wave of privacy legislation is coming that will affect business and not just those with a significant web aspect. Rather, the new wave will affect businesses with little to no exposure to the web....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

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