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Businesses with a website beware: California regulators just warned that the law prohibits your website from making website users jump through hoops or otherwise confusing them as they try to exercise their privacy rights,...more
New amendments to Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) expand the ways in which consent may be obtained and reverse a critical holding in Cothron v. White Castle System, Inc., significantly reducing a company’s...more
On August 2, 2024, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signed legislation reforming Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Senate Bill 2979 immediately amends BIPA to limit a private entities’ potential liability...more
Nearly one and a half years after the Illinois Supreme Court saddled businesses with the potential for massive damage awards under the state’s landmark biometric law, Governor J.B. Pritzker just signed into law amendments...more
On May 31, 2024, Colorado enacted H.B. 24-1130, an amendment to the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) regarding the use of biometric information (the “Biometric Amendment”). The Biometric Amendment, effective July 1, 2025, requires...more
The Practical Privacy Workshop is a half day continuing education event designed to keep you informed on important topics, trends, and best practices in the world of data privacy. Join us for breakfast, presentations that...more
On July 1, 2024, Florida, Oregon, and Texas will join California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia by adding privacy laws governing the collection, use, and transfer of consumer personal data. Montana will follow...more
Introduction - The legal regime in India relating to data protection and privacy has undergone a significant re-haul and revamp. The Digital Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDPA”) received the President’s assent and was...more
Last month, two key members of Congress released a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (“APRA”), comprehensive legislation that would change the landscape of consumer privacy law in the United States. If passed, APRA...more
On April 7, 2024, a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act was introduced. Bringing forth this bipartisan-supported bill represents a significant step toward privacy regulation in the United States. The proposed act brings...more
Introduction - As a federal state with law-making powers shared between federal and provincial/territorial governments, Canada has both federal and provincial/territorial privacy laws that govern the private and public...more
Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging federal lawmakers to intervene with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) so that hospitals and health systems can...more
Does your business collect or use fingerprints? Do your building access points use retina, finger, or palm scans? Does your security office use facial recognition technology to identify repeated trespassers? Do your phone...more
Washington state’s My Health, My Data Act (the Act), signed into law in April 2023, is a broad health data privacy law designed to protect consumer health data that falls outside the scope of HIPAA, such as health-related...more
Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more
One of the more significant Illinois legal developments in the past month were two Illinois Supreme Court orders interpreting the state’s onerous Biometric Information Protection Act (BIPA). We recently examined how these...more
The landscape of biometric privacy just became both more settled and unsettling for companies using biometrics. On February 17, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court held that each scan or transmission of a person’s biometric...more
If companies that employ Illinois residents and use any type of equipment to scan fingers, hands, face, or eyes were not yet aware of and concerned by the Illinois’ biometric privacy law, the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act...more
On November 1, 2021, the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”) (the “Personal Information Protection Law”) went into effect, two months after the Data Security Law of the PRC (the...more
China recently enacted its Personal Information Privacy Law (PIPL), which came into effect November 1, 2021. PIPL has global reach and broadly regulates entities of all industries that process the personal data of Chinese...more
On July 7, 2021, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”) into law. The CPA will take effect on July 1, 2023 and joins the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the California Privacy Rights...more
In today’s interconnected world, personal information has never been more broadly collected and analyzed by governments and corporations alike, making it imperative that we understand, enforce and update privacy laws in order...more
Biometric data is seen as a preferred means of identification by many businesses. Unlocking a smartphone using facial recognition and other biometric identifiers, for example, gives users the feeling as if they are more...more
Keypoint: While the Washington Privacy Act appears poised to pass the Senate, a competing bill introduced in the House of Representatives would require opt-in consent for processing, create an Illinois-like biometric...more
A bipartisan group of New York state lawmakers recently introduced privacy legislation that would impose new obligations on businesses related to biometric identifiers and biometric information. The Biometric Privacy Act...more