The California Senate Appropriations Committee has advanced the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, AB 2273, which could significantly impact many online service providers. Modeled on the UK’s Age Appropriate Design...more
The FTC has issued a long-anticipated Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) regarding commercial surveillance and data security practices. The FTC invites public comment on a wide range of issues (through more than 95...more
Momentum is growing for a federal privacy law in the United States. A bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders have released a discussion draft of a baseline consumer data protection legislation. The American Data...more
On July 19, California’s recently appointed Attorney General, Rob Bonta, launched an interactive tool to aid consumers with drafting notices of noncompliance for businesses who fail to publish the “Do Not Sell My Personal...more
The Governor of Colorado signed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) on July 7, 2021, making it the third state in the United States to enact broad consumer privacy legislation. Building on now-familiar concepts from the California...more
After the passage of the Colorado Privacy Act earlier this month, businesses that operate across the U.S. are now confronted with the challenge of developing privacy compliance programs for three new privacy laws by 2023 ...more
Virginia is on track to be the second U.S. state to enact comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. Both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate have passed nearly identical versions of the Consumer Data...more
2/10/2021
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It’s official. The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) has received enough valid signatures to appear on the November 2020 ballot. And if polling from late last year remains accurate, California voters are likely to approve...more
6/26/2020
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On June 1, The California Attorney General (CA AG) submitted the final text of the CCPA regulations to the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) for approval. ...more
6/2/2020
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The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is progressing through California’s elections process for inclusion on the November 2020 ballot. Businesses may want to begin considering how their data privacy obligations in...more
Businesses spent the latter months of 2019 working hard to prepare for the January 1, 2020 implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...more
5/7/2020
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On March 11, The California Attorney General (CA AG) released a second set of modifications to the proposed regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)....more
3/13/2020
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Right to Delete ,
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On Friday, February 7, 2020, the California Attorney General (CA AG) released notice of changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) draft regulations. Initial draft regulations were published for public comment on...more
2/10/2020
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Washington State is already shaping up as a center of state privacy legislation for 2020.
Last year, SB 5376 (also known as the Washington Privacy Act, or WPA) gained significant traction in the legislature, passing the...more
1/14/2020
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Personally Identifiable Information ,
Portability ,
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Right to Delete ,
State and Local Government
On October 17, 2019, the Hogan Lovells Privacy and Cybersecurity team discussed key elements of the California Attorney General’s proposed regulations implementing certain provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act...more
11/5/2019
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On October 10, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (CA AG) released proposed regulations to implement certain provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CA AG also released a Notice of Proposed...more
10/14/2019
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Since the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (CCPA) hasty passage in June last year and minor changes last September, the CCPA has vexed businesses working on compliance. Among many practical challenges, the CCPA often...more
9/25/2019
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A number of legislative proposals seeking to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are moving forward following an April 23 hearing before the California Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection in...more
4/25/2019
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The California legislature is considering significant amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ahead of the law’s January 1, 2020 implementation date. ...more
As we head towards 2020, it’s time once again for the decennial U.S. national Census – one of the broadest data collections that the United States federal government undertakes to learn more about its citizens, recalibrate...more
New proposals to protect consumer privacy in the U.S. seem to be appearing every day. There are now more than 90 privacy proposals that federal, state, and local regulators and policymakers are considering as privacy...more
A bill introduced to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA” or the “Act”) could greatly expand the risks to businesses that collect the personal information of California consumers....more
2/26/2019
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The California Department of Justice has announced a March 8, 2019 deadline for submitting written pre-rulemaking comments on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The March 8 deadline is an extension from the...more
This is the tenth installment in Hogan Lovells’ series on the California Consumer Privacy Act.
One of the most controversial elements of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) is the establishment of an...more
What personal information do you have about California consumers and households?
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) provides a series of new compliance obligations and operational challenges for companies...more