The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), at its board meeting on November 8, 2024, voted 4–1 to advance proposed regulations to a formal rulemaking. As currently drafted, these regulations would, among other things...more
11/11/2024
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On September 4, the California Privacy Protection Agency, the agency responsible for enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), issued an enforcement advisory on “dark patterns” and their inability to constitute...more
On September 4, the California Privacy Protection Agency issued an enforcement advisory regarding “choice architectures that have the substantial effect of subverting or impairing a consumer’s autonomy, decision-making, or...more
It’s a hot spring for state privacy legislation. Privacy bills are pending in roughly 20 states, and while Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) exemptions may act as a cool breeze in some, issues remain...more
Florida recently joined a small but growing number of states considering sweeping reforms to their data privacy and protection laws. House bill 969, titled “Consumer Data Privacy,” in many ways mirrors the California Consumer...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect on January 1, 2020, and brought with it a panoply of new legal obligations for many companies doing business with California residents. ...more
6/19/2020
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COVID-19 has challenged health care providers to change the way they offer services — from shifting to an increasingly remote workforce to diving into telehealth. These adjustments have privacy implications. The following are...more
6/18/2020
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COVID-19 spurred an overnight surge in demand for work-from-home vendors. These include companies offering audio and videoconferencing services, cloud services, e-commerce platforms, and virtual desktop infrastructure, to...more
4/5/2020
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Florida lawmakers have proposed data privacy legislation that, if adopted, would impose significant new obligations on companies offering a website or online service to Florida residents, including allowing consumers to “opt...more
1/15/2020
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