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FTC Finalizes COPPA Rule Amendments

January 17, 2025 By Maki DePalo and Hyun Jai Oh

On January 16, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 5-0 to approve the finalized amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) that would offer additional privacy safeguards for children under the age of thirteen. The amened COPPA Rule will require operators to obtain separate verifiable parental consent before disclosing personal information […]

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

Top Ten Takeaways from California AG’s Healthcare AI Advisory

January 15, 2025 By Daniel Felz, Jennifer Everett and Sara Pullen Guercio

On January 13, 2025, California Attorney General (“AG”) Rob Bonta issued an advisory describing providers’ and businesses’ obligations related to the development, sale, and use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and automated decision systems (“ADS”) in the healthcare industry (“Advisory”).  The Advisory puts healthcare providers, insurers, and businesses serving the healthcare industry on notice of the […]

Filed Under: AI, Artificial Intelligence, California, CPPA, CPRA, Health Privacy, Insurance Data Security, Online Privacy, Privacy

New York Amends Data Breach Notification Law with Immediate Implications

January 6, 2025 By Kim Peretti and Alysa Austin

In late December 2024, the New York Governor signed two bills (S2659B and S2376B) amending the state’s data breach notification law (N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 899-aa), to expand the definition of reportable personal information and impose new covered entity reporting obligations in the event of a data breach. Effective immediately, companies will have 30 […]

Filed Under: Data Breach, Data Security, New York, New York, NYDFS, Privacy

Massachusetts Top Court Torpedoes Website Analytics Wiretapping Class Action

October 30, 2024 By Donald Houser, Ashley Miller and Nicole Weeks

On October 24, 2024, in a long-awaited decision in Vita v. New England Baptist Hospital, Massachusetts’ highest court snuffed out an attempt to use the state’s 1968 Wiretap Act to impose liability on a hospital system for its use of third-party analytics technologies on its website.  The case had been closely watched by the business […]

Filed Under: Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Litigation Tagged With: Litigation, Privacy

EDPB Adopts Opinion on the Use of Processors and Sub-processors

October 11, 2024 By Kelly Hagedorn

On October 7, 2024, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted an opinion on obligations following from the use of processors and sub-processors (the “Opinion”). The EDPB is the body that seeks to ensure harmonised application of the EU GDPR across the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and is comprised of the heads of the data […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, International, Privacy Tagged With: Data Protection, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, European Union (EU), GDPR

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