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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Expresses Concerns About Use of Worker Profiling Data

Most consumers are aware that their personal data is collected, compiled, analyzed, and sold to third parties for marketing and other purposes. Many employees may not know of similar data collection practices relating to...more

Cozen O'Connor

Texas AG Slams the Brakes on Allegedly Unauthorized Collection and Sale of Driver Data

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Texas AG Ken Paxton has sued General Motors LLC and its subsidiary OnStar LLC (collectively “GM”) over allegations that GM misled vehicle purchasers into enrolling in programs that collected and shared their driving data with...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Texas AG Sues General Motors for Illegal Data Collection

This week, Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, filed suit against General Motors for alleged violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act in collecting and selling drivers’ data to insurers without consumer...more

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Nebraska Adds to the List of States That Have Enacted a Comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy Law

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On April 17, 2024, Nebraska’s governor signed Legislative Bill 1074, which establishes a consumer data privacy law for the state. Nebraska’s law takes effect January 1, 2025. To Whom does the law apply? The law applies to...more

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A New Line for Privacy in the Old Line State: Maryland Enacts a Comprehensive Data Privacy Law

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On May 9, 2024, Governor Wes Moore signed the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), making Maryland the seventeenth state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law. While similar in certain respects to most Virginia Model...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Maryland Online Data Privacy Act is broader, stricter, and more easily triggered than many state privacy laws

On April 6, the Maryland legislature passed the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024, sending the bill to the state’s governor for signing. The bill comes on the heels of the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act, which...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

A Million Here, A Million There: Avast Sets the Record for the Highest Monetary Remedy for FTC Act Privacy Violations

According to Chair Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recent action against Avast Limited and its subsidiaries for $16.5 million is the “highest monetary remedy in a de novo privacy violation case” and the first...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

No Money, Mo’ Problems: DoorDash CCPA Enforcement Action Emphasizes Personal Information “Sales” Aren’t All About the Benjamins

The California Attorney General (“AG”) recently delivered (pun very much intended) a public CCPA enforcement action against DoorDash, its second following the 2022 settlement with Sephora. The DoorDash action stems from a...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Biometrics Litigation Update: Washington Is Poised to Become a New Frontier for Private Litigants

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In just a few short weeks, a new front may emerge for biometrics litigation in the United States. On March 31, 2024, the My Health My Data Act (“MHMDA”) will go into effect in Washington for most entities that conduct...more

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Software Provider Avast to Pay $16.5 Million in Proposed FTC Settlement

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The FTC has issued a proposed order against Avast Limited and its subsidiaries (collectively “Avast”) to resolve allegations that the company violated the FTC Act when it unfairly collected and indefinitely stored consumer...more

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Bipartisan AG Group Supports Google Users in Case Alleging Privacy Violations

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A bipartisan coalition of 19 AGs filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of Google users who alleged that the company violated privacy agreements and used their personal...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Data Broker Rulemaking in Texas and Oregon

Both Texas and Oregon recently adopted rules that will, among other things, implement a registry required by both states’ data broker laws. The Texas law went into effect September 1, 2023, and the Oregon law will go into...more

Jones Day

With the Delete Act, California Enacts Another Groundbreaking Privacy Law

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The Situation: California has enacted a groundbreaking new privacy law aimed at data brokers—entities that sell information about consumers with whom they do not have a direct relationship. Under the Delete Act (SB 362), data...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California’s “Delete Act” Significantly Expands Requirements for Data Brokers

California recently passed a groundbreaking new law aimed at further regulating the data broker industry. California is already one of only three states (along with Oregon and Vermont) that require data brokers—businesses...more

Fisher Phillips

Massachusetts Lawmakers Want to Ban the Sale of Cellular Location Data: What Do Employers Need to Know?

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Massachusetts lawmakers are considering banning the sale of cellular location data across the state, which would be the first legislation of its kind in the country. The Massachusetts Location Shield Act was proposed in the...more

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP

Do You Know What Your Data is Doing?

The headline is a mouthful, but in the time you read this column your personal data has probably been collected by the more sophisticated vendors with whom you do business and is being used to target you for more purchases....more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

“The Kid Gloves are Coming Off”: Honor Global Privacy Control Signals Before the CCPA Notice and Cure Period Expires in 2023

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On August 24, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement with Sephora, one of the largest cosmetic retailers in the world, to resolve allegations that the company illegally sold consumer data and...more

Jenner & Block

Post-Dobbs Task Force - SCOTUS Overrules Roe v. Wade: Part IV: The Impact of Dobbs on Data Privacy – FTC v. Kochava

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently filed a complaint against a data broker alleging that the collection and sale of precise location data significantly harms consumers, especially if the data contains information...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2022

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CYBERSECURITY - Password Manager LastPass Admits to Hack - Password manager LastPass, reportedly used by more than 33 million users, recently announced that it was hacked, and although it reports that no passwords of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FTC Sues Data Broker for Selling Data from Reproductive Clinics and Places of Worship

In a complaint filed this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges that a data broker sold geolocation data from individuals showing their movements to and from sensitive locations, including reproductive health...more

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FTC Lawsuit Reveals Fraught Issues Surrounding Sale of Consumer Data

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The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) on Monday, August 29, 2022, sued Idaho-based Kochava Inc., a data broker, in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, seeking a permanent injunction and other relief for...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Sephora Settles with California AG for CCPA Violations over Sale of Data

In the first of its kind under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Sephora settled an enforcement action with the California Attorney General for violation of the CCPA. Sephora must pay $1.2 million in penalties and...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Colorado’s Consumer Data Protection Act Has Passed: What’s in It? (UPDATED)

On June 8, 2021, the Colorado Senate passed SB21-190, the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), as amended by the Colorado House of Representatives. Governor Jared Polis signed the bill into law on July 8. Passage of the CPA makes...more

Hogan Lovells

Nevada expands sale opt-out right effective October 1

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On June 2, Nevada’s Governor approved amendments to NRS 603A.300-360, the state’s internet privacy legislation. The amended law would expand the definition of “sales” to mean transfers of covered information to operators or...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

[Webinar] U.S. Privacy Law Update: Analyzing the Colorado Privacy Act - June 15th, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT

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The Colorado legislature just passed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). Once signed by the Governor, Colorado will become just the third state – after California and Virginia – to enact broad consumer data privacy legislation....more

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