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About Karen Sanzaro

Karen Sanzaro is counsel with Alston & Bird’s Technology & Privacy Group and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team. Karen’s practice focuses on complex outsourcing and technology transactions and privacy counseling.

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State AGs and Other Stakeholders Weigh In On Proposed COPPA Rule Update

March 14, 2024 By Karen Sanzaro and Hyun Jai Oh

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received over 270 comments to its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for the amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) during the public comment period that ended on March 11, 2024.  The NPRM reflects the FTC’s continued effort to modernize the COPPA Rule, which implements the Children’s […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Behavioral Advertising, Children's Privacy, Data Protection, Enforcement, FTC, Online Privacy, Privacy, Regulation, Uncategorized Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Data Protection, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Privacy

CPPA Formal Rulemaking Began on July 8, 2022

July 11, 2022 By Karen Sanzaro and Yin Tydir

On July 8, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “CPPA” or “Agency”) began the formal rulemaking process to adopt regulations implementing the amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) introduced by the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”).  The “Proposed CCPA Regulations” (the “Proposed Regulations” or “Regulations”) were originally released by the […]

Filed Under: California, CCPA, CPPA, CPRA, Regulation Tagged With: California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Regulations, Rulemaking

The Importance of Strategic Vendors in Breach Response

January 25, 2016 By Karen Sanzaro and James Harvey

Alston & Bird recently issued an Advisory, co-authored by Jim Harvey and Karen Sanzaro, on the complexities of managing a data breach that implicates strategic third party vendor relationships. Cybercrime and data security incidents are on the rise.  Security breaches and the ensuing investigation and remediation process can be costly and complex.  The process is […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Cyber Risk, Data Breach, Regulation Tagged With: Third Party Service Provider

Big Data: FTC Issues Report Cautioning that Use of Big Data may Violate Federal Consumer Protection Laws or Raise Ethical Considerations

January 19, 2016 By Karen Sanzaro

On January 6, the FTC issued a report on the commercial use of big data, Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion? Understanding the Issues, summarizing the results of a September 2014 workshop and numerous public comments, including a paper and workshop comments by Alston & Bird Senior Counsel Peter Swire.  The report addresses […]

Filed Under: Privacy Tagged With: Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

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