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Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

How ISO 27001 Supports Consumer Privacy: Part 1

Mounting regulatory pressure to protect individual privacy rights has turned safeguarding personal data into a business imperative. Regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and the...more

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AI and HR: Navigating Legal Challenges in Recruiting and Hiring

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Using AI in HR - Hire or Hover? Hiring executives are asking if the compliance costs and discrimination risks outweigh the anticipated benefits of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools for hiring and employment-related...more

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Ninth Circuit Issues Opinion on Constitutionality of California’s AADC

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Keypoint: The appellate court ruled that the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act’s impact assessment provision is unconstitutional and remanded the case back to the trial court to consider the constitutionality of the...more

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Ninth Circuit Ruling Paves the Way for California Age-Appropriate Design Code to Partially Come into Effect

On August 16, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion partially upholding—and partially vacating—the District Court for the Northern District of California’s preliminary injunction preventing...more

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Navigating the FemTech Regulatory Landscape: Best Practice & Future Developments

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The stakes are high for FemTech – as Benjamin Franklin noted: ‘it takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.’...more

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Minnesota passes the Consumer Data Privacy Act

Minnesota has become the 18th state to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law. On May 24, Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act into law to provide privacy rights to Minnesotans and to impose...more

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Maryland enacts child consumer protection laws

On May 9, the Governor of Maryland approved SB 571 (the “Act) to provide consumer online protections for children. The Act will afford protections from online products aimed at children or that are likely accessed by...more

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Maryland Enacts Age Appropriate Design Code

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On May 9, Maryland became the second state to enact an (AADC), the Maryland Kids Code, alongside the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) — Maryland’s first comprehensive data privacy bill. Maryland’s AADC follows...more

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Data Privacy Guide - Portugal

Introduction - Data protection is being driven by rapid technological advances and the increasing digitalization of society. Data protection legislation in Portugal is aligned with European Union law, in particular with...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Nebraska Becomes the Latest State to Enact a Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Rights Law

Last month, Nebraska passed the Nebraska Data Privacy Act (NDPA), making it the latest state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation. Nebraska joins California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Iowa, Indiana,...more

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PIA vs. DPIA: What’s the Difference?

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Avoid confusion between these two important privacy assessments and learn which is best for protecting your data. Keeping data and customer personal information (PI) secure is becoming more difficult by the day....more

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DPIA Template: Follow These Steps for Your Data Protection Impact Assessments

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The GDPR contains plenty of requirements, penalties, obligations, rights, and definitions—but it doesn’t contain a specific template for DPIAs, or data protection impact assessments. If you’re struggling to identify...more

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Whistleblowing Laws (Part II of II)

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Challenges may arise when conducting an internal investigation related to an underlying disclosure by a whistleblower pursuant to the EU Directive, because companies must strictly comply with the GDPR. Failure to comply with...more

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ستة أشهر حتى سريان النظام: خطوات الامتثال الرئيسية لنظام حماية البيانات في المملكة العربية السعودية

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يُعد نظام حماية البيانات الشخصية (النظام) أول نظام شامل لحماية البيانات في المملكة العربية السعودية. من المتوقع أن تبدأ الهيئة السعودية للبيانات والذكاء الاصطناعي (الهيئة) في الإنفاذ الكامل للنظام اعتبارًا من 14 سبتمبر 2024،...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

EU AI Act – Landmark Law on Artificial Intelligence Approved by the European Parliament

The highly anticipated EU Artificial Intelligence Act is finally here! With extra-territorial reach and wide-reaching ramifications for providers, deployers, and users of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), the Artificial...more

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Developing a Global Data Protection Framework for Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

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As employment-related artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools proliferate, multinational employers feel increasing pressure to deploy AI across their global offices.  These tools can provide great value and efficiency across the...more

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New UK Guidance on Workplace Monitoring

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On 3 October 2023, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published new guidance on workplace monitoring. The previous guidance was issued in 2011, as part of the ICO’s Employment Practices Code, and was badly in...more

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Getting to Know Who: ICO Draft Guidance on Biometric Recognition

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On 18 August 2023, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published draft guidance on biometric recognition (the “Draft Guidance”) for public consultation. The Draft Guidance explains how data protection law...more

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Practical Privacy: Lessons from the Front Lines

With the continuing onslaught of state privacy laws, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the number of new legal obligations while also trying to stay focused on identifying and mitigating the most pressing legal and business...more

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UK Data Regulator Joins Scrutiny of WorldCoin

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WorldCoin is a cryptocurrency project which uses iris scanning technology to issue a “World ID” as a digital identifier. Privacy concerns over WorldCoin have been voiced by several data protection authorities worldwide....more

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State Privacy Laws and Data Protection Impact Assessments

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Do new U.S. state laws require you to do a DPIA? Some pointers: •Assess whether or not you have processes that require conducting a DPIA (these are situations where there is a “heightened risk” to the rights of...more

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French data protection authority (CNIL) to look into generative AI, chatbots in 2023

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On May 16, 2023 the CNIL issued a statement in which it said that it will be looking into privacy issues posed by generative AIs, large language models (LLMs) and derived applications (chatbots). The official statement is a...more

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European Data Protection Board Focuses Coordinated Enforcement on Data Protection Officers

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Organisations should expect increased scrutiny and enforcement activity around the role of data protection officers in the coming year. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has announced that its coordinated...more

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Outside the Playground: California’s Child Privacy Act Sets Rules for Child’s Play

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In his State of the Union address on February 7, 2023, President Biden affirmed his position on consumer data privacy protections and specifically his focus on strengthening protections for children. With several state data...more

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Privacy Points 2023: New State Laws Introduce New Audit and Internal Review Requirements for Personal Information Collection and...

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Some states will affirmatively require annual audits of a business’s data collection and processing practices and—in some cases—to submit those audits to state regulators. With new US state data protection laws taking...more

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