Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
Privacy Litigation Trends: Meta Pixels, Cookie Opt-Out, and Sale of Data
Data Revolution: How U.S. Privacy Laws Change the Way Data Should be Managed by Retail and Tech Industries
Opting Out of Medicare: When and How to Do It
Colorado’s New Comprehensive Privacy Law
Recreational Marijuana Use Legalized in NYS – Your Questions Answered
Jones Day Presents: Effect of GDPR, CCPA, and FTC on Blockchains
The TCPA: Deep Dive: Details, Class Actions, Regulations, and Defense Strategies
What do a nearly 60-year-old statute on wiretapping and your website have in common? Enough to potentially impose liability on your organization, according to recent lawsuits. We have seen an astronomical increase in...more
On April 5, 2024 members of U.S. Congress released a draft bipartisan, bicameral federal privacy bill, the American Privacy Rights Act. In a press release, the stated goal of this legislation is to be “a national data privacy...more
Cyber, Privacy, and Technology Report - Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed....more
The FTC is beginning 2024 with a bang. Just a few short days after announcing a settlement with lead-generation company Response Tree, the FTC has announced another decision. In this latest announcement, the FTC has described...more
Keypoint: The Agency proposed more revisions to the CCPA regulations for consideration at the December 8 board meeting. On December 1, 2023, the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) published proposed revisions to...more
The Colorado Department of Law (“DoL”) has published a shortlist of potential universal opt-out mechanisms (“UOOMs”). Beginning on July 1, 2024, companies will be required to allow consumers to opt out of the sale of their...more
California residents may soon be able to click “backspace” on data brokers doing business in the state. On October 10, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 362, colloquially known as the Delete Act, into...more
FTC Settles with Experian for Alleged Customer Spamming - On August 14, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a proposed settlement involving Experian Consumer Services (“Experian”). A federal court entered...more
California continues to be at vanguard of data privacy rights. The latest effort by California legislators to protect consumer privacy rights focuses on data brokers, who under the proposed California Senate Bill 362, aka...more
Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory...more
When I first got into the privacy space several years ago, I had a basic understanding that the biggest, single source “leak” of personal data is the person themself. People were using poor security settings for online...more
While a uniform federal privacy law in the United States continues to be an uncertain prospect overshadowed by other national priorities such as infrastructure and COVID relief, state legislatures have pushed forward with...more
Nevada recently enacted an amendment that will significantly expand the scope of its existing online privacy law, SB260. Effective October 1, 2021, the amended law will impose additional obligations on qualifying “data...more
On June 2, 2021, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed SB260, which expands Nevada consumers’ right to opt out of the sale of personal data to include data brokers in addition to website owners. The revised law—the first of...more
Nevada’s governor recently approved an amendment to their privacy law. As we covered previously, generally, this law affords consumers a right to opt out of the “sale” of their data to third parties. The amendment broadens...more
Keypoint: If signed by the Governor, entities doing business in Nevada will need to examine their data transfers to determine whether they constitute “sales” under the broader definition....more
Keypoint: If passed, the bill would, among other changes, broaden Nevada’s existing right to opt out of sales of covered information. In late March, we first reported that the Nevada legislature is considering a bill...more
California Can Enforce Net Neutrality Law After Court Victory - California’s net neutrality law bars internet service providers from prioritizing, blocking, slowing down, or speeding up internet content. California’s law...more
In 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which provides for an expansive array of privacy rights and obligations, was enacted. At the time, it was reasonable to wonder whether California’s bold example would...more
Keypoint: Proposed bills would amend Nevada privacy legislation to provide consumers with a broader right to opt out of sales. In 2019 – shortly after the CCPA was enacted – Nevada amended its online privacy notice...more
If it’s not broker(ed) why fix it? A new data broker bill has been submitted to the Washington State House of Representatives, following in the footsteps of Vermont and California....more
On February 7, 2020, and again on February 10, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released modified proposed regulations (“Modified Proposed Regulations”) to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Cal....more
On February 7 and again on February 10, 2020, the California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released an updated draft of proposed regulations pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). The updated...more
On February 7, 2020, the California Attorney General’s (AG) Office released modifications to the proposed regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The modifications incorporate amendments to the CCPA signed...more
On Friday, February 7, 2020, the California Attorney General’s (AG) Office released modified regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The modified regulations incorporate amendments to the CCPA signed into...more