On Monday, July 19, 2021 the Office of the California State Attorney General (OAG) issued a press release to summarize its first year of CCPA enforcement.
In this press release, OAG urged consumers to take advantage of their CCPA rights,
Major United States Municipalities are lining up to limit the ability of the private sector to use technologies to collect biometric identifiers and information. While Portland, Oregon, was perhaps the most dramatic, banning the use of face recognition technologies earlier
On June 4, 2021, the European Commission adopted modernized standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) for use in international data transfers (collectively the “Clauses”). These updated Clauses reflect new requirements under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and take into
Apple is days away from releasing the public version of iOS14.5, which will bring a seismic shift in the way the operating system functions with respect to privacy. In particular, the operating system introduces two major changes.
The first change
Today, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed the Consumer Data Protection Act (SB 1392) into law, making Virginia the second state after California to enact major privacy legislation. Like the recently approved California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), which amends the California
On January 14, 2021, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted Guidelines 01/2021 on Examples Regarding Data Breach Notification (“Guidelines”). The Guidelines complement prior guidelines issued by the Article 29 Working Party in October 2017; namely, the Guidelines on Personal
January 28 is data privacy day, and I thought it an appropriate time to take a step back. One of my greatest regrets as a practitioner is that we are always under so much crisis pressure – deadlines, both real
As anticipated, on September 29, 2020, Governor Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 1281 incorporating an extension of time for the sunset of the employee and business to business exemptions of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) to
Last week, the LA City Attorney announced that it has agreed to settle its lawsuit against The Weather Channel over alleged improper location data practices. The settlement serves as reminder about the increasing scrutiny over location data, and the need
The Office of Administrative Law’s (OAL) approval of the California Attorney General’s proposed regulations to the CCPA on August 14, 2020 was just the news we needed in 2020. Even better, because the OAL graciously approved the finalized regulations on