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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is pleased to provide you with the Compliance News Flash, which includes current news briefs relevant to background screening, immigration and data privacy, for the benefit and interest of our clients as well as employers and consumer reporting agencies generally.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in the Federal Register it will extend the validity of Temporary Protected Status (TPS)-related documentation for beneficiaries under the TPS designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan. The notice in the Federal Register automatically extends through October 4, 2021 (from January 4, 2021), the validity of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs); Forms I-797; and Forms I-94 for beneficiaries under the TPS designations for these six countries. Click here to read more.
Opt-Out Notices for the Sale of Personal Information
Collected
Offline
. The modified Regulations clarify that only a business that
sells personal information that it collects in the course
of interacting with consumers offline (e.g., in a brick-and-mortar
store or over the phone) must inform consumers, via an offline
method, of their right to opt out of the sale of their personal
information, as well as provide instructions on how consumers may
submit an opt-out request. That said, the separate requirement for
a business to make its notice at collection available
offline stands, regardless of whether the business sells personal
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California will soon use an icon developed by a team from Cylab and the University of Michigan in its privacy regulations.
This past January, you may have noticed the phrase Do not sell my personal information at the bottom of many webpages. If you didn t, it could be because there s no icon next to it even though the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) suggests using one.
After a year without guidance on what that icon should look like, California has proposed an official icon to include with the opt-out text one developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University s CyLab and the University of Michigan s School of Information.