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Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 14: How Employers Can Navigate Cybersecurity Issues with Brandon Robinson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney
Navigating the Digital Frontier: Employee Privacy Rights and Legal Obligations in the Modern Workplace
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Recently, Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton announced the launch of a Texas data privacy and security law enforcement initiative by establishing a new unit focusing on Texas’ privacy laws. The AG’s Office made the...more
On June 18, 2024, California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta announced a third CCPA enforcement settlement, this one with Tilting Point Media LLC. Tilting Point was allegedly using its mobile app game "SpongeBob: Krusty...more
On May 24, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) signed the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA) into law. The MCDPA largely aligns with previous state consumer privacy laws, but it introduces some significant and novel...more
On April 2, the California Senate Judicial Committee passed Senate Bill 1061. The bill seeks to prevent health care providers and contracted collection agencies from providing information about patients’ medical debt to...more
On January 26, California State Attorney General Rob Bonta announced an investigative initiative by issuing letters to businesses operating streaming apps and devices, accusing them of non-compliance with the California...more
Key Takeaways - The Children’s Data Privacy Act (AB 1949) would require businesses to obtain affirmative authorization to collect, use or disclose personal data of children under 18 in California....more
It is indeed a tangled regulatory web woven to potentially trap an organization in the wake of a data incident. Navigating this web can involve significant resources, time, and stress. As we discussed in part two of this...more
Similar to other state consumer data protection acts enacted over the past two years, the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) allows Colorado consumers to opt out of the sale of personal data and the processing of such data for...more
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against Taxslayer LLC, H&R Block Inc., and TaxAct Inc. alleging that the tax preparation companies violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act by sharing consumers’ sensitive...more
The FTC obtained an order against education technology provider Edmodo, LLC for allegedly violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule by collecting personal data from children without parental consent,...more
On March 15, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser recorded the final version of the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) Rules, granting Coloradans rights over their own personal data. Effective July 1, the CPA marks the third state...more
On August 22, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) indicated through the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking its intent to limit commercial surveillance – the common corporate practice of collecting, analyzing, and...more
On November 17, 33 state attorneys general (AGs) submitted a comment letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), supporting its contemplated new efforts in the corporate surveillance and data security space. The AGs’ public...more
California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta has made clear that California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement is going to be a priority for the AG’s office. On Friday, the California AG’s office announced a $1.2 million...more
Since its enactment at the beginning of 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has garnered a significant amount of attention. The watershed legislation, which is intended to strengthen privacy rights in the state...more
We all know businesses collect our data. But did you know that businesses can draw inferences from those data to determine whether a consumer is married, or is a homeowner, or is a likely voter? Recently, the question arose...more
Biometric data is becoming increasingly pervasive in our daily lives—we use it to unlock smartphones, gain entry to entertainment venues, access secured locations, and record time and attendance on the job site....more
California Privacy Protection Agency Indicates Delay for Final CPRA Regulations The California Privacy Protection Agency (“Agency”) was established by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”)....more
On July 7, 2021, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). By enacting the CPA, Colorado becomes the third state in the nation to implement a generally applicable consumer data privacy law,...more
On April 29, 2021, Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas reintroduced a comprehensive federal privacy bill entitled the Consumer Data Privacy and Security Act (the Act). The Act integrates themes from the CCPA and GDPR and provides...more
A group of 22 Democratic AGs, led by District of Columbia AG Karl Racine, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in S. Department of Labor v. Data Marketing Partnership, No. 20-11179, in...more
On March 15, 2021, new regulations published under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) further define how businesses may communicate privacy options on the internet....more
In what might prove to be a growing trend, on March 2, 2021, the Governor of Virginia signed into law the comprehensive Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), making Virginia the most recent state to enact such a law after...more
Update: The VCDPA was signed into law by Governor Ralph Northam without amendment on March 2, 2021. The VCDPA will become operative on January 1, 2023, and businesses should remain mindful of pending legislation in states...more
The California attorney general released a fourth set of proposed modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act regulations; notable regulatory changes include a new opt-out button for websites and an offline notice of...more