California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Preparing for Increased Data Privacy Regulations
Privacy continues to be an increasingly heated battleground with government regulation on one side and big tech on the other. GDPR kicked off the first major data protection and privacy regulation in ...
Privacy Takes a Hit In the High Court
One of the earliest “privacy” laws in the United States is, surprisingly, the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Back during the Nixon Administration, Congress passed a law that gave people the right to ...
Virginia Enacts New Data Privacy Law
On March 2, 2021, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed the Commonwealth’s first comprehensive data privacy law, the Consumer Data Protection Act, making Virginia the second state, after California, to do so. California’s ...
CCPA’s Statutory Damages Push More Breach Litigation to the Golden State
We had long predicted that the CCPA’s introduction of statutory damages associated with certain data breaches would make California a popular venue for data breach class action lawsuits. Sure enough, litigants are ...
Key Changes in the AG’s Updated Proposed CCPA Regulations
The California Attorney General released an update to its proposed California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations, and companies have until 5 pm PT on February 24 to submit comments on this updated draft ...
New Push for Washington’s Privacy Bill in 2020
Washington state may be leading the charge on privacy legislation in 2020. The state legislature introduced several privacy bills during the first week of its 2020 legislative session, including an updated version ...
Social Networking Privacy Concerns Impacting Businesses and Consumers
As businesses and their customers turn more to social media networks for the sharing of information, both are becoming increasingly aware of the price of privacy. In other words, simply participating in ...
CCPA Countdown: Draft Regulations Add Clarity and New Requirements
On October 10, 2019, the California Attorney General issued its notice of proposed rulemaking containing its proposed CCPA Regulations. In many instances, the draft Regulations go beyond simply clarifying existing CCPA provisions ...
10 Recent Changes to the CCPA that Businesses Should Know About
Key Takeaways: Subject data rights for employee data and business-to-business data were narrowed (for a year). The definition of personal information was clarified; the toll-free number requirement has an exception. The definition ...
CCPA Countdown: A Mixed Bag of Amendments Advance With Five Months to Go
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) goes into effect on January 1, 2020, but the contours of the law are still being ironed out. Following a marathon debate at a California Senate ...