On March 2, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) was signed into law, becoming the second comprehensive state privacy law in the United States. The VCDPA reflects core principles from the California Consumer...more
3/9/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Privacy ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Gramm-Leach-Blilely Act ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Opt-In ,
Personal Data ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Disclosures ,
Privacy Laws ,
Risk Assessment ,
Virginia
As we began exploring last week in Part I of our Post-Brexit, Schrems II, and the GDPR: Privacy Compliance Priorities in Early 2021 series, significant developments in late 2020 charted a course in privacy/cyber compliance...more
2/1/2021
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EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
UK ,
UK Brexit
On December 31, 2020, the Brexit transition period ended and the United Kingdom’s (UK) domestic implementation of the GDPR, the UK Data Protection Act 2018, as amended (UK GDPR), now governs the processing of personal data in...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Invalidates the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield-
On July 16, 2020, the CJEU invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (the Privacy Shield) in its decision in Facebook Ireland v. Schrems...more
7/17/2020
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Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Data Collection ,
Data Transfers ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Surveillance ,
U.S. Commerce Department
CCPA enforcement began on July 1, 2020 and many businesses are still ramping up their compliance efforts. These efforts include meeting the CCPA’s requirement to provide privacy training to all employees who either handle...more
Final CCPA Regulations Progress to Administrative Review On June 2, the Office of the California Attorney General (OAG) announced that it had submitted the Final Text of the Proposed Regulations under the California Consumer...more
6/3/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disparate effect on privacy regulators, with varying levels of enforcement advocated by different government entities; the California Attorney General, the U.S. Department of Health & Human...more
6/1/2020
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California ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Compliance ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Contact Tracing ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Global Workforce ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Malware ,
Personal Information ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
Privacy Acts ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Scams ,
Sensitive Personal Information ,
State and Local Government ,
UK
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, significant sectors of the global workforce abruptly shifted to working remotely. Private and public businesses, government operations, and educational institutions moved en masse to...more