Key Discovery Points: Don’t Get Caught with Your Hand in the Production Cookie Jar
How Startups Can Comply With Ever-Changing Privacy Laws
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 15: TAKE IT DOWN: Online Abuse and Harassment with Carrie Goldberg of C.A. Goldberg, PLLC
Facial Recognition and Legal Boundaries: The Clearview AI Case Study — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
State AGs Unite: New Privacy Task Force Signals Shift in Regulatory Power Dynamics — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 14: The Pig Around the Corner: Privacy and Trade with Constantine Karbaliotis of nNovation LLP
State AG Pulse | Massive Google Settlement Shows AGs Serious About Privacy
State AGs Unite: New Privacy Task Force Signals Shift in Regulatory Power Dynamics — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Privacy and Data Security
A Blueprint for Efficient SRRs: Mastering Your Subject Rights Workflow
Weathering the 2025 Whirlwind: How to Keep Calm & Carry On
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 10: 2025 Privacy Predictions: Hold My Beer, 2024
2025 Privacy Law Preview: Be Prepared
The American Privacy Right Act (APRA) explained
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
[Webinar] Midyear Data Privacy Check-in: Trends & Key Updates
Decoding Privacy Laws: Insights for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Navigating State Privacy Laws
[Webinar] AI and Data Privacy: Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Opportunity
Embracing Data Privacy to Drive Business Growth: On Record PR
A national leader in privacy law, California was among the first states to include an express right to privacy in its constitution, create a data breach notification law, and codify robust consumer data protections. ...more
On March 24, 2025, Senate Bill 754 (pdf) was signed into law amending the Virginia Consumer Protection Act (VCPA), the Commonwealth’s general consumer protection law. The VCPA was originally passed in 1977 as remedial...more
Keypoint: A new Virginia law prohibits the collection, use, or sharing of reproductive or sexual health information without consent and provides Virginians with a private right of action for at least $500 per violation. As...more
On March 24, 2025, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed into law SB 754, amending the state’s Consumer Protection Act to prohibit businesses from “[o]btaining, disclosing, selling, or disseminating any personally identifiable...more
While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its extensive privacy compliance obligations, the law also provides for a limited private right of action for certain security-related breaches....more
Governor Phil Scott has vetoed the state’s proposed comprehensive privacy law. In rejecting the bill, he stated he was worried it created an “unnecessary and avoidable level of risk.” He had concerns in three areas....more
Just past midnight on May 11, 2024, the Vermont Legislature passed H.121, the Vermont Data Privacy Act (VDPA). If signed into law, the VDPA would become the most onerous state comprehensive privacy law in the country. Among...more
On April 12, 2024, the Nebraska Legislature passed the Data Privacy Act (NEDPA), sending the bill to Governor Jim Pillen’s desk for signature. NEDPA adds to the patchwork of state consumer privacy laws in that it does not...more
Will the U.S. finally join most developed nations and pass a comprehensive federal privacy law? Some believe this may be the year that the U.S. does just that....more
Considering the polarized nature of today's Congress, businesses' antipathy for a broad private right of action, and the states' strong interest in avoiding preemption, it seems unlikely the American Privacy Rights Act will...more
Last week, a bipartisan coalition in Congress introduced the American Privacy Rights Act (“APRA”), a draft federal privacy bill. The APRA represents the latest effort to create a federal consumer data privacy law after its...more
The American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 would establish a national, comprehensive data protection law unifying US businesses under one standard, preempting the well over a dozen U.S. states with laws already in effect. ...more
The latest version of the New York (“NY”) State Privacy Law (“S365B”) is continuing to make its way through the NY State Assembly. As readers of this blog know, members of the NY State Senate have been trying to get a version...more
New Jersey recently became the first state to pass a comprehensive privacy law in 2024. New Jersey is the thirteenth state to pass such a law—and yet another comprehensive privacy law is making its way through New Hampshire’s...more
This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. Since its enactment in 2008, Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has produced a wave of privacy-related...more
Although the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA), 410 ILCS 513/1, et seq. was largely ignored by plaintiffs’ attorneys until this year, its substantial statutory penalties and recent case law make it an enticing...more
Oregon will soon join Iowa, Indiana, Florida, Montana, Texas, and Tennessee in passing a comprehensive data privacy law. On June 25, the Oregon legislature passed the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act. The OCPA has moved to the...more
As detailed in Part 1 of this ongoing series, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the state’s My Health My Data Act (the Act) into law on April 27, 2023. The Act is a first-of-its-kind law that creates new privacy...more
On April 27, 2023, the state of Washington enacted a landmark privacy law aimed at protecting the privacy of health data not covered by HIPAA. While the 2023 legislative season has been busy for state “comprehensive” privacy...more
On June 3, 2022, a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives released a discussion draft of a comprehensive federal data privacy bill entitled the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). Though bipartisan compromise...more
After a stalemate over federal consumer privacy legislation in the past few years, a draft bill was released on June 3 that signals a major step towards bipartisan support for federal consumer privacy legislation. The...more
The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”) passed by the Utah legislature was signed into law by Governor Spencer Cox on March 24, 2022 and becomes effective December 31, 2023. While companies conducting business in Utah will...more
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
With state legislatures reconvening for 2022, numerous states already have seen California Consumer Privacy Act-like privacy legislation proposed or carried over from 2021, including Ohio, Maryland, Washington, New York and...more
Despite its antecedents in one of the most widely cited law review articles of all time from more than 130 years ago, modern United States privacy law is roughly twenty years old. Even though still in its relative infancy,...more