Prof. Peter Swire, Elizabeth and Thomas Holder Chair at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business and Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird, recently published an opinion piece, first in French in Le Monde, and then in English in the European Law Blog, with the title “the US, China, and Case 311/18 on Standard Contractual […]
Data Protection
Nevada Law Gives Consumers Right to Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information
On May 29, 2019, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak signed into law Senate Bill 220, an act that amends Nevada’s existing online privacy notice law. This amendment will make Nevada the first state to join California in granting consumers the right to opt out of the sale of their personal information. While providing similar rights to […]
Spring Legislative Update: Two New Laws and Two Amendments
Legislative and regulatory activity continues apace, with four states making changes to their data privacy and cybersecurity legislation in the past month alone. West Virginia and Mississippi enacted new legislation while Virginia and Utah amended their existing data breach notification laws. Virginia On March 18, 2019, Virginia amended its data breach notification statute. (VA HB […]
Privacy for All and Employees Excluded: Amendments to the CCPA That Have Traction
When first introduced on February 22, 2019, AB 1760 aimed to merely fix a few typographical errors in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”). However, when AB 1760 was first amended on April 4, 2019, the bill turned into a wholesale replacement of the CCPA with the “Privacy For All Act of […]
SEC Issues Risk Alert Noting Common Regulation S-P Compliance Issues
The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) has issued a Risk Alert that provides an overview of the most common deficiencies or weaknesses in investment adviser and broker-dealer compliance with the Safeguards Rule, Regulation S-P, based on recent examinations. Placed in context with prior OCIE Risk Alerts concerning cybersecurity practices and Regulation S-P […]