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Data Privacy Guide - USA - Illinois

Introduction - Illinois has enacted laws addressing rights and obligations related to data privacy. Companies and organizations that handle, collect, disseminate, or otherwise deal in nonpublic information have a number of...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Congress Proposes New Comprehensive Privacy Legislation: The American Privacy Rights Act

On April 7, 2024, Representative Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA) and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) announced that Congress will once again consider a comprehensive federal data privacy bill that, if passed, would dramatically...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

A New Proposal for a Federal Privacy Law is Here: What You Should Know about APRA

Earlier this week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) released a discussion draft of the...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Data Privacy Strikes Back: American Privacy Rights Act

On April 7, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the text of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), a bipartisan and...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

2023: The Year of New Privacy Laws

It is shaping up to be the year of U.S. privacy laws! In addition to the Washington My Health My Data Act (see our previous article regarding the widespread implications of this enacted law), we have seen six (6)...more

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Holland & Knight Data Privacy and Security Report: March 2023

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Welcome back to Holland & Knight's monthly data privacy and security news update that includes the latest in policy, regulatory updates and other significant developments. ...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 26

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Biden Administration to Introduce New National Cyber Strategy for Critical Infrastructure - The Biden administration is reportedly working on a National Cyber Strategy for critical infrastructure that will advocate a more...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 20

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Pelosi Statement Dims the Lights on ADPPA - The prospects for the nation’s first comprehensive data privacy law, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (the “ADPPA” or the “Bill”), dimmed after House Speaker Nancy...more

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American Data Privacy and Protection Act – Could a Federal Privacy Law be on the Horizon?

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On June 3, 2022, a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives released a discussion draft of a comprehensive federal data privacy bill entitled the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). Though bipartisan compromise...more

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Bipartisan Push for Federal Privacy Legislation: Will It Work This Time?

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After a stalemate over federal consumer privacy legislation in the past few years, a draft bill was released on June 3 that signals a major step towards bipartisan support for federal consumer privacy legislation. The...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Privacy Legislation Update: The “Three Corners” Bill and the Cantwell Draft

On June 3, 2022, members of the U.S. Congress released a bipartisan, bicameral discussion draft of a comprehensive national data privacy and data security framework. The draft is notable in that it reflects a compromise on...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

At Least 22 States Have Consumer Privacy Legislation Pending – Will 2022 Be the Year for More State Privacy Laws?

California is the gold standard for state privacy laws, having recently enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Virginia and Colorado also have enacted comprehensive...more

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Status Of Proposed CCPA-Like State Privacy Legislation As Of May 17, 2021

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Keypoint: This week the Colorado Privacy Act passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Alaska’s House Labor and Commerce Committee held another hearing on its bill, Connecticut’s bill was sent to the Senate...more

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Virginia Contemplates Sweeping New Data Protection Law

* Update, February 5, 2021: Senate Bill 1392 has been passed in the Virginia Senate. As noted, an identical companion bill previously was passed by the House of Delegates. If Governor Northam signs off, the Virginia Consumer...more

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New York State to Consider Biometric Privacy Law, Again

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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

International Lawyers Network

Recent changes in personal data regulation in Russia

Personal data (PD) protection is becoming the main topic of the recent days, so the Russian legislation in this sphere changes rapidly. The article represents an overview of updates on personal data regulation for the 3rd...more

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COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act introduced in the U.S. Senate

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On May 7, 2020, in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and as some states are “opening up”, U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; John Thune...more

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Federal Consumer Data Security Bill in a Nutshell

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United States Senator Jerry Moran (R. Kan.), Chairman of Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, has introduced legislation, Senate Bill 3456, to establish a national standard for protecting consumer data and personal...more

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Privacy and Data Security Alert l March 2020

Shook Weighs in on Updated CCPA Regulations - In response to extensive public comment, the California Attorney General’s office released modified draft regulations under the CCPA on February 7. Shook has provided initial...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Washington State Lawmakers Divided Over Private Right of Action and Other Relief in Dueling Data Privacy Bills

- The Washington state Senate has passed its version of a consumer data privacy bill as state lawmakers debate proposed legislation for the Washington Privacy Act, the state’s first data privacy law. - In their own bill,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

House Democrat Introduces Legislation to Strengthen Children’s Online Privacy

On January 30, Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL) introduced H.R. 5703, the Protecting the Information of our Vulnerable Children and Youth Act (Kids PRIVCY Act) that would expand requirements under the Children’s Online Privacy...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Washington State Takes Center Stage for Privacy Legislation

As the 2020 legislative session begins, Washington State looks like Ground Zero for privacy bills....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Tracking Privacy: State Developments to Keep an Eye On

We are a little more than two weeks into the new year and we’ve already seen several states introduce comprehensive privacy legislation on the heels of California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). It is no easy task to stay on...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] What’s New in Washington: Spotlight on Privacy Legislation

In this episode, Akin Gump public law and policy partner Ed Pagano and senior policy advisor Galen Roehl discuss privacy legislation being considered in the U.S. Congress....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Feds Want New IoT Guidance to Address Security Vulnerabilities

“Internet of Things” devices are listening. And now the federal government is taking notice. As we reported in our Government Contracts and Investigations blog, to date, federal cybersecurity regulations for government...more

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