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Data privacy and security risk and compliance issues relating to exchanges of personal information during merger, acquisition, and similar transactions can sometimes be overlooked. In 2023, we summarized an enforcement action...more
Keypoint: Last week, the California legislature returned from its summer recess and began moving forward with privacy and AI legislation prior to the August 31 session closing date. We are currently tracking thirteen...more
A recent board meeting of state officials revealed that the California agency responsible for overseeing the state’s landmark consumer privacy law received over 2,000 complaints for alleged violations in the past year alone –...more
What Issues Did the California Privacy Protection Agency Raise? On July 16, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) discussed proposed updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations....more
On April 17, 2024, the State of Nebraska enacted the Nebraska Data Privacy Act (“NDPA”). With the passage of the NDPA, Nebraska joins the ranks of the nineteen other states that have adopted comprehensive consumer data...more
As of July 1, three new comprehensive state privacy laws – the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR), the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA), and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) – will take effect, joining the...more
On June 17, 2024, a judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted final approval of the class settlement reached by the parties in Lateano v. Chicago Cubs Baseball Cub, LLC. In his...more
Keypoint: While the act does not include many provisions found in the more recent consumer data privacy laws, it would expand privacy notice obligations in one significant way although the applicability and scope of that...more
On May 24, 2024, Senate Bill 4757, containing a comprehensive Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDA), was signed into law by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. It will take effect on July 31, 2025....more
Minnesota’s governor has now signed into law that state’s comprehensive privacy law. For those keeping count – that is number 19 of state “comprehensive” privacy laws, with six in 2024 alone. The Minnesota law will go into...more
On May 25, 2024, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (the "Act"), which takes effect on July 31, 2025, for most controllers and on July 31, 2029, for certain postsecondary educational...more
On April 4, 2024, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (the "KCDPA" or "Act"), which takes effect January 1, 2026. The KCDPA maps in large part to the Virginia Consumer Data...more
(The Consumer Protection Dispatch summarizes industry news and updates on emerging issues involving a variety of consumer protection issues including, but not limited to, data and AI.)...more
The push by U.S. states to pass data privacy laws continues with Maryland being the 18th state to join their ranks. However, Maryland has taken a more stringent and comprehensive approach than many of its peers: Governor Wes...more
On May 10, 2024, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024 ("MODPA" or the "Act"), bringing the number of comprehensive state privacy laws to 18and establishing a new, more restrictive...more
Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024 (MODPA) into law on May 9, 2024. This new law establishes transparency, assessment, and consumer rights requirements for organizations that fall...more
Last month, Nebraska passed the Nebraska Data Privacy Act (NDPA), making it the latest state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation. Nebraska joins California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Iowa, Indiana,...more
Future LLC, a magazine and website publisher and owner of the TechRadar.com website, faces allegations that it collected website visitors’ IP addresses without consent in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act...more
On 17 April, 2024, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed into law omnibus Legislative Bill 1074, which includes the Nebraska Data Privacy Act, making Nebraska the seventeenth state to adopt comprehensive data privacy...more
Nebraska’s governor has now signed into law the state’s “comprehensive” privacy law making it the fourth one this year, and the 17th overall. It will take effect on January 1, 2025 – the same day as Delaware, Iowa, and New...more
Kentucky - On April 4, 2024, Kentucky joined the growing number of states to enact data privacy legislation, becoming the third state to do so in 2024 and the fifteenth state overall at the time of enactment....more
The U.S. is taking another swing at a federal data privacy law with the American Privacy Rights Act, or APRA. While there’s no guarantee that the APRA will become the law of the land, it’s still worthwhile to study in order...more
On April 6, 2024, Maryland's legislature passed a comprehensive privacy bill, the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), and sent it to the state's governor for signature. If enacted, the law would take effect on October...more
On April 4, 2024, Kentucky joined the rapidly growing number of states adopting a comprehensive data privacy law, when Governor Andy Beshear signed, the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act ("Kentucky CDPA"). The law will...more
2023 was a record-breaking year, with legislators in Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas passing comprehensive data privacy laws, joining California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Virginia. Already...more