The American Privacy Right Act (APRA) explained
Navigating State Privacy Laws: A Conversation with Oregon & Texas Regulators about Privacy Enforcement
Navigating State Privacy Laws
AGG Talks: Women in Tech Law - Episode 1: Charting the Course: Women Trailblazing in Cybersecurity and Crisis Governance
Are You Ready to Comply With New State Data Privacy Laws?
Embracing Data Privacy to Drive Business Growth: On Record PR
Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
Data Revolution: How U.S. Privacy Laws Change the Way Data Should be Managed by Retail and Tech Industries
State AG Pulse | CT AG Reacts to Genetic Data Breach
Episode 293 -- Catching Up with California and Other State Privacy Laws
CFPB's Rulemaking Under the FCRA (Part 3) – Crossover Episode With The Consumer Finance Podcast
Website Privacy Litigation
Podcast - The FTC Agenda & Data Privacy
Guidepost in Motion EP27: Privacy Matters Part 2: “TMI”-The Privacy Dilemma of Social Media
Webinar Recording – The Colorado Privacy Act and Draft Rules
CCPA 2.0: What Employers Need to Know about Expiring CPRA Data Privacy Exemptions
A Look at the Metaverse’s Legal Implications, with Special Guest Samantha Green, Director of Content Marketing, Epiq
Webinar Recording – Preparing for Compliance with the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)
Fashion Counsel: Privacy in the Retail Fashion Industry
Data Privacy Unlocked, A Second Conversation with Joseph Duball of the IAPP
Most businesses are aware of historical restrictions or limitations on selling personal information to third parties for monetary consideration. Perhaps less familiar are recent state laws giving consumers the right to tell...more
On Tuesday this week, Montana’s new consumer protections law took effect, joining many other states with similar consumer privacy rights legislation....more
Throughout the 2024 legislative session, we have been tracking numerous privacy- and AI-related bills pending in California. Ten of those bills passed the state legislature before the legislative session ended on August 31...more
The review of Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) currently underway by the Alberta Standing Committee on Resource Stewardship (the Committee) continues, with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently...more
The Australian Government has today published a draft Bill outlining the next steps in Australia’s Privacy Act Review process. The changes to be implemented by the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 include...more
On September 22, 2024, the fourth wave of amendments to Québec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector(“Act”) will take effect. Arguably, the most important change it will introduce is...more
Selected U.S. Privacy and Cyber Updates - New York AG Seeks Comments on Rulemaking for Minors’ Online Protection Laws - On August 1, 2024, New York Attorney General Letitia James issued two advanced notices of proposed...more
Welcome to this month's issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice. We invite you to share this resource with your colleagues and visit...more
In 2020, Daniel Anderl, the son of Federal Judge Esther Salas, was shot and killed by a man targeting the judge. It is believed the man found the judge’s home address online. In reaction to the murder, New Jersey enacted...more
On June 26, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “CPPA”) held a stakeholder session to provide information and gather stakeholder input on the CPPA’s mandate to build an accessible deletion mechanism known as...more
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
Following the Sephora and DoorDash enforcement actions, on June 18, 2024, the California Attorney General announced its third California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement action against Tilting Point Media LLC. Tilting...more
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
On May 9, 2024, Governor Wes Moore signed into law the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024 (“MODPA”). MODPA will take effect on October 1, 2025, but will not apply to personal data processing activities occurring before...more
here’s no General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the US. Absent a comprehensive, national privacy law, states have stepped in to fill the gap. As Adam Greene, Partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, explains in this podcast,...more
Introduction - In recent years, Ohio has made unique and nationally-mirrored efforts toward advancing a goal of protecting the personal data of its residents. In addition to joining other U.S. states in 2005 by requiring...more
On May 13, the FTC’s amendment to the Safeguards Rule relating to the reporting of data breaches and security incidents, which were announced in October of 2023, became effective. As a reminder, the FTC’s Safeguards Rule...more
Introduction - Illinois has enacted laws addressing rights and obligations related to data privacy. Companies and organizations that handle, collect, disseminate, or otherwise deal in nonpublic information have a number of...more
Last week, the Vermont legislature passed H. 121, the Vermont Data Privacy Act. This law will make Vermont the 18th state to grant consumers privacy rights similar to those under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). It...more
The push by U.S. states to pass data privacy laws continues with Maryland being the 18th state to join their ranks. However, Maryland has taken a more stringent and comprehensive approach than many of its peers: Governor Wes...more
Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more
On 17 April, 2024, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed into law omnibus Legislative Bill 1074, which includes the Nebraska Data Privacy Act, making Nebraska the seventeenth state to adopt comprehensive data privacy...more
Nebraska’s governor has now signed into law the state’s “comprehensive” privacy law making it the fourth one this year, and the 17th overall. It will take effect on January 1, 2025 – the same day as Delaware, Iowa, and New...more
Earlier this month, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) issued its first-ever enforcement advisory (No. 2024-01). The advisory addresses what it calls the “foundational principle” of data minimization, and more...more
The U.S. is taking another swing at a federal data privacy law with the American Privacy Rights Act, or APRA. While there’s no guarantee that the APRA will become the law of the land, it’s still worthwhile to study in order...more