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In the last year, we continued to see a shift in the privacy landscape of the United States, including the passage of comprehensive privacy legislation in both Virginia and Colorado,...

In September, President Biden nominated Alvaro Bedoya, privacy activist and head of Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology, to replace outgoing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Rohit Chopra.

Bidens New Executive Order Looks to Address Data Privacy July 21, 2021 September 30, 2021 Twitter Photo: Ahundt via Pixabay/CC In his latest executive order, President Joe Biden is asking the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to establish new rules over how tech firms can collect and use data from their customers, as a way to offer more privacy protections for American consumers. The focus on how large tech firms such as Facebook, Google and Amazon collect and use consumer data is one part of an e...

US President Joe Biden holds a semiconductor chip as he speaks prior to signing an executive order, aimed at addressing a global semiconductor chip shortage, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2021. Photo via REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst. Each decade has fundamentally changed security and technology. In the 2000s, much of the world focused on counterterrorism: The Twin Towers had been hit, and the years that followed were dominated by the global response to...

[co-authors: Taylor Daly, Senior Public Policy Specialist and Rebecca Kocsis, Legal Project Analyst] Throughout the month of March, states continued to introduce new privacy laws of their own as Congress focused on enacting President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan—H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021—which President Biden signed into law on March 11. The last month notably featured several key developments in California, as the state announced the establishment of t...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: So far, 2021 is shaping up to be an important year for data privacy legislation. In March, Virginia enacted the Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) — the nations second comprehensive data privacy law. Dozens of state legislatures are actively considering data privacy bills, with California continuing to ramp up enforcement of the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). Meanwhile, with Democrats in control of both the White House ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: It’s a hot spring for state privacy legislation. Privacy bills are pending in roughly 20 states, and while Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) exemptions may act as a cool breeze in some, issues remain: Some states’ legislation has no GLBA exemption. Some states’ legislation only contains a data-level exemption, meaning non-GLBA data would be subject to the states’ privacy requirements. Even those states’ legislation that contains...

Data Brokers and National Security Sen. Ron Wyden speaks a town hall in 2017. (Joe Frasier, https://flickr.com/photos/146781514@N05/33115710686; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en) In the worlds of data protection and privacy, too often there is a decoupling of national security issues and what might be termed non-national security issues despite the clear interplay between the two realms. Over the past decade, U.S. adversaries have vacuumed up the personal data of m...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Throughout the month of March, states continued to introduce new privacy laws of their own as Congress focused on enacting President Bidens $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan—H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021—which President Biden signed into law on March 11. The last month notably featured several key developments in California, as the state announced the establishment of t...

Improving consumer privacy presents compliance challenges Craig Guillot April 22, 2021 For nearly the past two decades, retailers have invested in new information technology systems and data initiatives to use information to improve the customer experience. While customer data has proven valuable for both consumers and retailers, legislators in many states now believe businesses must do more to protect that information and ensure privacy rights. A wave of new state laws could help improve...