Bahrain’s Ministry of Justice will temporarily assume the functions and powers prescribed to the Data Protection Authority (the “Authority”) under Bahrain’s new Personal Data Protection Law. (Decree No. 78 of 2019.) It will...more
Attorney General Becerra held a press conference on October 10th, 2019, and announced the release of proposed regulations concerning the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). He stressed that privacy is an inalienable right...more
10/14/2019
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Data protection authorities (DPAs) in the European Union (EU) continue to scrutinize practices in the adtech sector for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local data protection and...more
8/6/2019
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• May 31, 2019, was the deadline for the California Legislature to pass bills out of the chamber in which they were introduced. Several measures proposing amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) passed the...more
6/5/2019
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A year ago, on May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. With its extraterritorial scope and detailed requirements, the GDPR aimed to change the approach to personal data...more
5/31/2019
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• On May 16, 2019, the California Senate Appropriations Committee held Senate Bill 561 (SB-561) in committee, likely blocking its passage this term.
• SB-561, co-authored by the California Attorney General, would have...more
• In his State of the State address, Governor Newsom proposed a “Data Dividend” that would apparently entitle Californians to compensation for the use of their data. If passed, it would be the first measure of its kind in the...more
2/20/2019
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The 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires the California Attorney General’s Office (AGO) to promulgate regulations related to the CCPA by July 1, 2020. The AGO is holding a series of public forums and accepting...more
1/29/2019
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• Non-profit organizations are testing companies’ GDPR compliance through targeted requests for information and other means and are filing complaints against allegedly non-compliant companies.
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1/28/2019
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• California recently passed the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act that goes into effect in 2020, which grants California residents new privacy rights.
• The CCPA creates a private right of action for California...more
7/9/2018
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On October 19, 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a judgment determining that dynamic Internet protocol (IP) addresses may constitute “personal data” subject to protection under the EU’s Data...more