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Navigating the Patchwork of State Consumer Privacy Statutes: An E-Commerce Compliance Playbook

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP on 6/19/2025

Online retailers now face an increasingly complex matrix of state consumer-privacy statutes that impose prescriptive requirements on data collection, monetization, and cybersecurity practices. ...more

Seven New States Join Patchwork of U.S. Comprehensive Privacy Laws: Top 10 Trends from the First Half of 2024

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 7/15/2024

In the first half of 2024, seven new states—Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Rhode Island—all enacted their takes on comprehensive privacy laws, bringing the total number of states with...more

The Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act: Minnesota Becomes the 18th State to Enact a Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. on 6/3/2024

On May 24, 2024, Governor Walz signed into law the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MNCDPA). This landmark law is the first set of comprehensive consumer privacy standards specific to Minnesota residents. The law will...more

Litigation Preparedness Following a Data Breach: Three Tips to Consider During the Incident Response Period

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/26/2023

Data breaches come in many different forms, sizes, and levels of complexity, but they tend to share certain key facts: A third-party bad actor—whether through a phishing attack, a ransomware attack, exploitation of a zero-day...more

China Publishes Draft Rules to Ease Data Export Compliance Burden

WilmerHale on 10/13/2023

The Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) on September 28, 2023 issued the draft Provisions on the Regulation and Promotion of Cross-Border Data Flows (“draft Provisions”), just one year after China’s data export...more

The State of State Privacy Laws: What Businesses Need to Know

Miller Nash LLP on 9/11/2023

Summer days are over and it’s time to hit the books. State legislatures were busy in 2023 making up for the U.S. Congress’s inability to pass a comprehensive privacy law. ...more

Recent Trends in Generative Artificial Intelligence Litigation in the United States

K&L Gates LLP on 9/6/2023

Although still in their infancy, a growing number of recently-filed lawsuits associated with generative artificial intelligence (AI) training practices, products, and services have provided a meaningful first look into how US...more

Home Depot Gets Nailed by Privacy Commissioner for Sharing Data with Meta

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 2/10/2023

Recent findings by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) found that Home Depot of Canada Inc. (“Home Depot”) did not obtain valid meaningful consent to share summary purchase information with Meta Platforms...more

2023 State and Federal Data Privacy Legislation

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 1/30/2023

The United States is gearing up for another noteworthy year in data privacy and cybersecurity. 2023 will likely be a year of transition as certain data privacy laws come into effect. As concerns around data protection and...more

Canadian Privacy Law 2022 Year in Review

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 1/27/2023

In 2022, the Canadian privacy and cybersecurity law landscape continued to see significant transformation. As with previous years, to mark Data Privacy Day, we have summarized the big stories from last year to help you stay...more

Data breach class actions: SDNY finds standing based on sketchy injury-in-fact allegations

Kilpatrick on 11/30/2022

Takeaway: Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Clapper v. Amnesty Int’l USA, 568 U.S. 398, 416 (2013), that plaintiffs “cannot manufacture standing merely by inflicting harm on themselves based on . . . hypothetical...more

AG Settlements Call for Stronger Data Security

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 11/10/2022

Early this week, a coalition of 40 attorneys general obtained two multistate settlements with Experian concerning data breaches it experienced in 2012 and 2015 that compromised the personal information of millions of...more

Cybersecurity Insurance: Circuit Courts Weigh in on Insurers’ Liability for an Insured’s Losses Stemming from a Data Breach

Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti,... on 11/8/2022

When a cybersecurity-related incident occurs, an insured should not automatically assume a standard commercial general liability (CGL) policy issued by an insurer will cover their losses, as CGL policies generally afford...more

Potential Harm Enough For Class Action to Proceed in Data Breach Litigation

Genova Burns LLC on 9/14/2022

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has given new life to a putative class action suit led by a former employee of a company that suffered a ransomware attack, leading to her sensitive information being released onto the Dark...more

California Legislature Fails to Extend CCPA Employee and B2B Data Exemptions

Husch Blackwell LLP on 9/1/2022

Keypoint: Businesses subject to the CCPA will need to revise their compliance programs before the exemptions expire on January 1, 2023. As previously reported, the California legislature had been considering multiple bills...more

CCPA Financial Penalties: Four Takeaways from the California AG’s $1.2 Million Enforcement Action that Should Inform Your...

Kilpatrick on 9/1/2022

We warned you last summer that California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) enforcement was heating up! The California Attorney General (“CAG”) announced a settlement with cosmetics retailer, Sephora. That, among other penalties,...more

Today's Popular Updates › Personal Information › Corporate Counsel

Navigating the Patchwork of State Consumer Privacy Statutes: An E-Commerce Compliance Playbook

Seven New States Join Patchwork of U.S. Comprehensive Privacy Laws: Top 10 Trends from the First Half of 2024

The Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act: Minnesota Becomes the 18th State to Enact a Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law

Litigation Preparedness Following a Data Breach: Three Tips to Consider During the Incident Response Period

China Publishes Draft Rules to Ease Data Export Compliance Burden

The State of State Privacy Laws: What Businesses Need to Know

Recent Trends in Generative Artificial Intelligence Litigation in the United States

Home Depot Gets Nailed by Privacy Commissioner for Sharing Data with Meta

2023 State and Federal Data Privacy Legislation

Canadian Privacy Law 2022 Year in Review

Data breach class actions: SDNY finds standing based on sketchy injury-in-fact allegations

AG Settlements Call for Stronger Data Security

Cybersecurity Insurance: Circuit Courts Weigh in on Insurers’ Liability for an Insured’s Losses Stemming from a Data Breach

Potential Harm Enough For Class Action to Proceed in Data Breach Litigation

California Legislature Fails to Extend CCPA Employee and B2B Data Exemptions

CCPA Financial Penalties: Four Takeaways from the California AG’s $1.2 Million Enforcement Action that Should Inform Your...

New California Draft Privacy Regulations: How They Would Change Business Obligations and Enforcement Risk

CPRA Draft Regulations Issued

Four Key Developments in Data, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law

Major Update in Data Privacy Laws Proposed in Massachusetts

PRC Personal Information Protection Law Challenges: Why Companies Should Evaluate Their Business Practice Now

Connecticut Expands Breach Reporting and Creates Cybersecurity Safe Harbor

The journey has just begun: China passes its Personal Information Protection Law

Challenges Under New Personal Information Protection Regime in China

Personal Information Protection Law: China’s GDPR Is Coming

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