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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 nation's 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 and Congress, the prospects of a comprehensive federal data privacy law have increased, and the fir...

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 such an entity-level exemption will not insulate insurers from contractual obligations imposed by t...

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 many Americans with one nation possibly being at the fore: the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Th...

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 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 the five-member inaugural board for the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), a new administr...

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 consumer data privacy and security, but they also present new compliance challenges for retailers. ...