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The FTC Expands its FCRA Enforcement Activity In Action Against Retailer

June 15, 2020 By Kathleen Benway and Jon Knight

Most businesses are already familiar with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) and the various requirements to protect the fairness, accuracy, and privacy of consumer credit information.  However, a recent FTC enforcement action against the retailer Kohl’s Department Store, Inc. (“Kohl’s”) has brought a rarely used provision of the statute to light.   This provision—codified […]

Filed Under: Enforcement, Financial Privacy, FTC, Legislation

Proposed Federal Privacy Legislation Tackles COVID-19 Data

May 21, 2020 By Jon Knight and Nameir Abbas

Data collection and analysis is becoming a key weapon in the fight against COVID-19 both here in the United States and around the globe.  But as governments and tech companies roll out a variety of applications and contact tracing tools, legislators from both sides of the political aisle are questioning how to handle the data […]

Filed Under: Health Privacy, Legislation, Mobile Privacy, Privacy Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID-19, privacy legislation, private right of action

The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 – Key Impacts

May 7, 2020 By Michael Young

On Monday, Alastair Mactaggart and his group, Californians for Consumer Privacy, announced its collection of over 900,000 signatures in support of its ballot initiative, a number well in excess of the approximately 620,000 required for placement on the November ballot. The initiative, called the “California Privacy Rights Act of 2020,” would amend the 2018 California […]

Filed Under: Ballot Initiatives, Behavioral Advertising, California, CCPA, ePrivacy, Legislation, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Privacy Policy

California Attorney General Issues Second Round of Modifications to CCPA Regulations

March 11, 2020 By Daniel Felz

At approximately 6:00 p.m. today, March 11, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced a second round of modifications to the draft regulations his office is preparing for the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “Draft CCPA Regulations”).  These modifications follow two previous rounds of drafting: (a) the initial publication of the Draft CCPA Regulations, in […]

Filed Under: Legislation, Privacy, Regulation, Uncategorized Tagged With: California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), US State Law

SHIELD Act Overhauls New York’s Data Breach Notification Framework

October 25, 2019 By Privacy & Data Security Team

On October 23, 2019, New York’s new breach notification provisions came into effect, a result of New York’s passage of the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) in July. That Act overhauled New York’s data privacy framework, expanding the list of data elements that are considered “private information” while growing the […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Cyber Risk, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, Legislation, Online Privacy, Privacy

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