Data Collection, State Privacy Laws, Covered Entities

FAQs for Businesses as Texas Data Privacy Law Takes Effect July 1

Fisher Phillips on 6/6/2024

Texas will soon be the next state to have a comprehensive consumer data privacy and security law when the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act takes effect on July 1. It will require businesses to take several compliance...more

Examining the Likely Impact of Washington’s My Health, My Data Act on Class Action Litigation Involving Biometric Data

BakerHostetler on 12/1/2023

On April 27, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law House Bill 1155, colloquially known as the My Health, My Data Act (the Act). Passed in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision, the Act...more

Data Contract Requirements under New State Data Privacy Laws

Venable LLP on 8/17/2023

A number of new state privacy laws now govern and mandate certain contractual requirements for collecting, sharing, and processing of personal information. Personal information is generally defined as data that is linked or...more

Beyond HIPAA: What Businesses Need to Know as States Join Trend to Protect Consumer Health Data

Fisher Phillips on 8/14/2023

For decades, medical providers and other covered entities have satisfied their health-data privacy obligations by complying with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) — but this is changing...more

Texas Passes a Comprehensive Privacy Law

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 7/7/2023

In June, Texas became the tenth state with a comprehensive privacy law. The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”) contains familiar provisions from other state privacy laws regulating the collection, use, processing,...more

Upcoming Data Privacy Laws a Reminder to be All Over Your Map

DarrowEverett LLP on 6/13/2023

Much like the beginning of 2023, when two new state data privacy acts went into effect, the midpoint of 2023 will feature two more state data privacy acts coming onto the books. On July 1, 2023, the Colorado Privacy Act...more

Indiana & Tennessee Pass Comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy Laws, with Montana on Deck

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 5/30/2023

This month, Indiana, Montana and Tennessee passed comprehensive privacy laws. Each tracks closely the comprehensive privacy laws outside of California, but with some variations. None applies to employee data or has a private...more

Broad New Washington Privacy Law Requires Immediate Compliance Action

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/24/2023

Companies may face class action lawsuits as early as July 2023 based on Washington’s new privacy law. Governor Jay Inslee recently signed House Bill 1155, the WA My Health, My Data Act (“MHMDA” or “the Act”), giving companies...more

Another Governor Signs: Tennessee Volunteers to Join the Privacy Patchwork

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/16/2023

The Tennessee governor has signed Tennessee’s comprehensive privacy law, which as we have indicated will go into effect July 1, 2025. As initially proposed, the law would have been effective July 1, 2024, and would have...more

Tennessee Passes Comprehensive Data Privacy Law

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/16/2023

Tennessee has joined the growing number of states that have enacted comprehensive data privacy laws. On the final day of this year’s legislative session, the Tennessee legislature passed the Tennessee Information Protection...more

Washington to Pass Benchmark Privacy Protections for Consumer Health Data: The 10 Most Important Questions for Businesses

Fisher Phillips on 4/18/2023

Washington State lawmakers just passed the most consequential privacy legislation in the country since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was adopted in 2018, which will soon require businesses to take significant...more

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