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In Shah v. Capital One Financial Corporation, the Northern District of California handed down a ruling that may shape the trajectory of litigation involving tracking technologies, online privacy policies, and California’s...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic in state legislatures across the country over the past year. As is common with technology-related issues, California has taken the lead in regulating the AI space. The...more
The state of California is on the verge of amending its current data broker law with Senate Bill 362, also known as the Delete Act (“the Act”). The Act passed in the Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection and...more
On Friday, July 14, 2023, on the heels of the California Attorney General’s (AG) announcement seeking information from California employers on their compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California...more
The Washington My Health My Data Act (the MHMD Act) was signed into law on April 27, 2023, creating new restrictions on the collection and disclosure of "consumer health data" by companies in Washington or that is related to...more
The Indiana Legislature is poised to pass Senate Bill 5, a comprehensive privacy statute (the “Act”), and send it on to the Governor. Once signed, the Act will become operative on January 1, 2026, and make Indiana the seventh...more
California employers have navigated the ever-changing privacy landscape when it comes to employee and personnel personal information (“human resources data”). For years, California employers’ obligations were narrow in scope...more
Data privacy legislation has picked up steam across the nation in recent years. California, Colorado, and Virginia are among many states that have recently passed data privacy laws. Many other states, including North...more
In the last year, we continued to see a shift in the privacy landscape of the United States, including the passage of comprehensive privacy legislation in both Virginia and Colorado, while other states still have bills under...more
On Feb. 18, Chairperson Jennifer Urban of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) addressed the California state bar and clarified the announcements that were made during the CPPA board meeting on Feb. 17. Read on for...more
On June 7, 2021, the Colorado House of Representatives passed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), a comprehensive privacy law similar to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as well...more
Virginia seemingly came out of nowhere on the consumer privacy front and now appears to be just days away from becoming the second state in the nation, behind California, to pass comprehensive consumer privacy legislation....more
The long wait to see if any state would join California in passing a comprehensive privacy law is finally coming to an end, as the Virginia Senate passed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) on February 3. An...more
Given the recent updates to CCPA, and the possible approval of California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) which is on the November 3 ballot, it is increasingly likely that personal information collected in the course of clinical...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) currently exempts from its provisions certain information collected by a business about a natural person in the course of the person acting as a job applicant, employee,...more
Two bills related to personal privacy have been passed by the California State Legislature and are awaiting signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom: the Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) and a bill that amends the California...more
As we recently reported, the privacy-right activist group that sponsored the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) – Californians for Consumer Privacy – is pushing for an even more stringent privacy bill, the California...more
The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) has received enough signatures to qualify for the November 2020 ballot in California. Based on preliminary polling, many expect voters to approve it. If approved, substantive...more
The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is progressing through California’s elections process for inclusion on the November 2020 ballot. Businesses may want to begin considering how their data privacy obligations in...more
Today, we are all facing a public health crisis unlike any other we have seen in our lifetime. In addition to serious consequences to global health, the COVID-19 pandemic has created significant disruption in the legal system...more
Following an unsuccessful attempt last year at passing a comprehensive data privacy bill, the Washington State Legislature is hoping the second time’s the charm. Senate Bill 6281, this session’s updated version of The...more
On October 7, 2019, the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure held a hearing on pending legislation, including An Act Relative to Consumer Data Privacy (S.120). Modeled on the California Consumer...more
In addition to the various amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) passed by the California Legislature on September 13, the legislature also passed Assembly Bill 1202 (AB 1202). AB 1202 requires “data...more
Five bills to amend California's landmark privacy legislation, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), passed the California State Legislature last week and now head to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk. ...more
One of the amendments we’ve been watching over the past months is one that impacts rights of employees -both the company’s and other company’s employees. Under AB25, which passed the California Senate and is now awaiting...more