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State Data Breach Notification Laws - June 2025

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While most state data breach notification statutes contain similar components, there are important differences, meaning a one-size-fits-all approach to notification will not suffice. What’s more, as data breaches continue to...more

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Second Circuit Joins Judicial Trend: No VPPA Violation in Pixel-Sharing Case

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a proposed class action against Flipps Media (now Triller TV), ruling that the company did not violate the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by sharing...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Courts Reject Theoretical Privacy Violations Due to Lack of Standing

Courts across the country are becoming skeptical of data breach and web tracking claims that assert theoretical privacy violations without alleging any actual injury to the plaintiffs. Recent decisions underscore that courts...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

A Blockbuster Week for the VPPA—New Releases from the Sixth and Seventh Circuits

Much like Blockbuster Video rental stores (of which you might be surprised to learn there is still one remaining), the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) was quietly slipping into obsolescence with the advent of the Internet...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

New Year, New State Data Privacy Laws

With the advent of a new year comes a new set of consumer data privacy laws in the United States. Five new state data privacy laws go into effect in January 2025, with additional laws coming throughout 2025 and into 2026....more

Husch Blackwell LLP

U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: August 2024

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Keypoint: California district courts continue to split over whether “knowledge” is required to plead liability under Section 631(a)’s fourth prong while two decisions show courts taking different approaches to VPPA claims at...more

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Brazil Publishes Data Protection Sanctions: 3 Steps Your Company Should Take to Avoid Problems

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Brazil’s data protection authority recently published regulations that could lead businesses and employers that violate the country’s data privacy laws to be punished with administrative penalties – adding yet more incentive...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Lessons Learned from the First CCPA Enforcement Action

In a significant action of interest to any business with customers in California, the state’s Attorney General announced its first enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The result is a fine and...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Trends in Privacy Laws Around the U.S.: A Look at the Pending N.C. Consumer Privacy Act

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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

McDermott Will & Emery

Utah Poised to Enact Consumer Privacy Law

On March 3, 2022, the Utah House of Representatives unanimously passed a consumer privacy bill which the Utah Senate passed earlier this year. The bill, entitled the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, still has several hurdles to...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

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California Consumer Privacy Act, California Privacy Rights Act FAQs for Covered Businesses

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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), considered one of the most expansive U.S. privacy laws to date, went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA placed significant limitations on the collection and sale of a...more

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Colorado House Passes Colorado Privacy Act

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Keypoint: The bill will now return to the Senate to accept or reject the House amendments. On the night of June 7, 2021, the Colorado House voted 57-7 to pass the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). As we previously reported, the...more

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Status Of Proposed CCPA-Like State Privacy Legislation As Of June 7, 2021

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Keypoint: This week the Colorado legislature continued to advance the Colorado Privacy Act, and the Nevada Governor signed into law a bill that will broaden the state’s pre-existing right to opt out of sales as of October 1,...more

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Status Of Proposed CCPA-Like State Privacy Legislation As Of April 12, 2021

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Keypoint: This week bills in Florida and Connecticut continued to progress, the Washington Privacy Act failed to get out of the House at the deadline, and bills in Oklahoma and West Virginia died...more

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Status Of Proposed CCPA-Like State Privacy Legislation As Of March 15, 2021

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Keypoint: There were four notable developments this week: the Florida House passed a bill out of committee, lawmakers proposed a new bill in Texas, the Washington Privacy Act was scheduled for a public hearing and committee...more

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Businesses Need To Revamp And Revise CCPA Notices As 2020 Comes To A Close

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all manner of business procedures over the course of this past year, but one area you may not immediately recognize that needs to be immediately addressed relates to mandatory privacy...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Proposition 24: California’s Ever-Evolving Privacy Landscape

Next Tuesday is election day, and this year, California voters are deciding whether to support another statewide privacy initiative – the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) (Proposition 24). This measure would expand on...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Further Tension Between National Security and Protecting Privacy: Latest EU Judgments

United Kingdom, French and Belgian national security laws (and such laws of other EU Member States) fell under the scrutiny of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which on October 6, 2020, ruled on whether such...more

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CCPA Update: Analyzing The Changes To The Final CCPA Regulations

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Keypoint: Some additional changes to the CCPA regulations were made before they were filed with the Secretary of State and became effective. As discussed in our prior post, on Friday, August 14, 2020, the California Office...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2020

In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

CCPA Enforcement Area No. 1 - The Infamous "Do-Not-Sell" Button

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Enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) began July 1, 2020. Our privacy team at Troutman Pepper includes several attorneys who worked in an attorney general’s office. This privacy regulatory team has...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

What Does 2020 Have in Store for CCPA Enforcement and Litigation?

While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1st of this year, the California Attorney General submitted the final draft of proposed regulations only last month....more

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California Privacy Rights Act Will Revamp CCPA To Include GDPR-Type Requirements

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On June 24, the eve of the July 1 enforcement date for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Secretary of State certified the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the latest brainchild of privacy...more

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CCPA Regulations Still Not Final as Enforcement Deadline Approaches; CPRA Appears to Move Forward

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Businesses spent the latter months of 2019 working hard to prepare for the January 1, 2020 implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...more

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