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

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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

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The American Privacy Rights Act: 5 Things You Need to Know

Two leading U.S. legislators have unveiled a bipartisan plan to enact the first comprehensive federal data privacy law. The proposed American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) largely mirrors common themes in the patchwork of state...more

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Data Contract Requirements under New State Data Privacy Laws

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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

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

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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

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Texas Passes a Comprehensive Privacy Law

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

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Florida Added to Growing List of New Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Laws

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On June 6, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis approved the passage of Senate Bill 262, which establishes the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR), set to go into effect July 1, 2024. Florida is now the tenth state to pass...more

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

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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

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

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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

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Another Governor Signs: Tennessee Volunteers to Join the Privacy Patchwork

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

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Tennessee Passes Comprehensive Data Privacy Law

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

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

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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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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

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Connecticut Governor Signs Data Privacy Act into Law

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The Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) was signed into law on May 10, by Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, making Connecticut the fifth state to enact a consumer privacy law. The CTDPA is set to take effect on July 1, 2023,...more

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State Law Privacy Video Series | Healthcare Entities and Health Data

California, Virginia and Colorado have new privacy laws coming into effect in 2023. But now is the time to start preparing your business or organization for compliance. In this video series, we examine the different aspects...more

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People’s Privacy Act Introduced In Washington State House Of Representatives

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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

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Beyond Data Breach: Evaluating Coverage for Misuse of Information Claims

New and comprehensive privacy and cyber regulations continue to proliferate across the globe. These are not your father’s data breach notification laws. The scope of information included within these mandates has expanded...more

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US Privacy Law and Contact Tracing Apps: Considerations for Mitigating Risk

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Contact Tracing Is Crucial: Contact tracing is the systematic identification of infected individuals and their relevant contacts. Along with rapid testing and targeted quarantines, contact tracing is an effective and crucial...more

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As Covered Entities Inch Toward Normalcy, Thorny Worker, Patient Privacy Issues Arise

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 6 (June 2020): Being a health care provider in the midst of a pandemic is complicated enough, between offering telehealth services, perhaps for the first time, and helping workers continue...more

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Federal Privacy Law in Response to COVID-19 on the Rise: The COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act of 2020 vs. The Public Health...

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Over the years, Congress has put forth various legislative proposals regarding data privacy. None of the past legislation received the support necessary to enable passage of a comprehensive national data privacy law. However,...more

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Congressional Democrats Counter Republican COVID-19 Privacy Measure

On Thursday, May 14, House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chair Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce (CPC) Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced a bicameral counter-proposal to the...more

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Senate COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act of 2020: Balancing Privacy with the Pandemic

Last month, we reported that the United States Senate, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, conducted a hearing on “Enlisting Big Data in the Fight Against Coronavirus.” Specifically, the Committee focused on...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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[Webinar] Resolving Inconsistencies in Requirements for De-identification and Anonymization of Health Data under CCPA, HIPAA, and...

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For companies seeking to use, license, or otherwise commercialize health data, there are potential inconsistencies among the HIPAA de-identification standard, the CCPA definition of de-identified data, and GDPR requirements...more

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Use of PHI for Non-Patient Purposes

In an era of decreasing reimbursement and rapidly expanding opportunities associated with “big data”, healthcare entities may be looking for ways to monetize protected health information (“PHI”) for their own, non-patient...more

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