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Introduction Consistent with a growing national trend, Virginia joined California in recently passing consumer privacy legislation with broad national reach. Both the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (Virginia CDPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) take effect on Jan. 1, 2023, following closely behind the recently passed and enacted California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into effect in January 2020. Kramer Levin developed the following checklist to help businesses b...

consumers or households. The CPRA also clarifies that the revenue threshold of $25 million applies to revenue from the “preceding calendar year.” § 1798.140(d)(1)(A) and (B). Restriction on Legislature to Amend: Finally, in response to critics who alleged that the original CCPA became “watered down” by the legislative process, the CPRA limits the power of the state legislature to change the law. The California Legislature may only pass amendments to the statute that “are consistent ...

[co-author: Harsimar Dhanoa]* This is the fourth installment in our series on the California Privacy Rights Act, which takes effect January 1, 2023. As we have previously highlighted, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) has created several new consumer rights that will require businesses to change existing California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance programs. While various existing consumer CCPA rights will continue, such as access and deletion rights, those rights have been modified...

On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“DOC”) issued an interim final rule governing transactions in Information and Communication Technology or Services (“ICTS”)...

not exhaustive or final, but can be revised by DOC as necessary. The scope of prohibited transactions are those between U.S. persons and a “person owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of a foreign adversary,” which includes: Any person, wherever located, who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or any other capacity at the order, request, direction, or control of a foreign adversary; A person whose activities are directly or indirectly supervised, dire...

d. For any other reasonable purposes 12, the reasonable purposes include whistle blowing, prevention and detection of any unlawful activity, mergers and acquisition, credit scoring, recovery of debt etc. Rights of the Data Principal The bill also provides for rights 13 that can be exercised by a data principal such as the right to seek information regarding the manner or processing activities undertaken by the data fiduciary with respect of the personal data. The bill also gives an opportunity ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: After struggling with developing a national-level data privacy law for over a decade, the National People’s Congress of People’s Republic of China released the draft Personal Information Protection Law (Draft Law) on October 21, 2020. The Draft Law was open for public comments for almost a month and is likely to be adopted as is. Once issued, the Personal Information Protection Law will be the first national-level law on data pr...