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Yesterday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed S332, the state's first comprehensive consumer privacy law. In doing so, New Jersey joins thirteen other U.S. states in passing a comprehensive...

In July of 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a joint letter cautioning hospitals...

Over the last few years, there has been an increased focus on the collection of children's personal information in the United States. For example, many states have begun passing laws...

On May 19, 2023, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (the "MTCDPA") into law, becoming the ninth state to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy act.

As you consider the end of the year and beginning of a new year, we in Taft's Privacy and Data Security Practice thought to provide you with a simple list of data protection...

The CCPA has been up and running for a couple of years now, with changes coming in 2023 with the amendments from the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

Mark McCreary Earns International Association of Privacy Professionals’ CIPT Certification.

Updated 1 hour ago TALLAHASSEE — In an attempt to “put consumers in the driver’s seat” of their data privacy, Florida legislators are giving bipartisan support to legislation that imposes new disclosure requirements on companies that collect information on their customers and sell it to data brokers. Modeled after a California law that last year became the strongest data privacy law in the country, SB 1734 creates the Florida Privacy Protection Act and requires businesses ...

California-style data privacy law gets bipartisan support in Florida Legislature Mary Ellen Klas, The Miami Herald Apr. 7—TALLAHASSEE — In an attempt to "put consumers in the drivers seat" of their data privacy, Florida legislators are giving bipartisan support to legislation that imposes new disclosure requirements on companies that collect information on their customers and sell it to data brokers. Modeled after a California law that last year became the strongest data pri...

Florida’s New Data Privacy Law Nets Bipartisan Support Florida state legislators are giving bipartisan support to legislation that imposes new disclosure requirements on companies that collect information on their customers to sell to data brokers. by Mary Ellen Klas, The Miami Herald / April 7, 2021 Shutterstock/ranjith ravindran (TNS) — In an attempt to "put consumers in the drivers seat" of their data privacy,  Florida legis...