The California legislature passed several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100 to 1798.190) (the “CCPA”) on September 13, 2019. (See our previous blog posts here: Which CCPA Amendments Made the Cut? … [Read more] about California Passes Several Amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act
New Hampshire recently passed its Insurance Data Security Law based on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law. The law will go into effect January 1, 2020. New Hampshire is one of several … [Read more] about New Hampshire Passes Insurance Data Security Law
While much has been written about the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the focus has primarily been on the new rights it affords California consumers to have access to and control use of their data and opt out of many transfers to third … [Read more] about The CCPA Could Reset Data Breach Litigation Risks
On July 29, 2019, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) issued its decision in the case of FashionID GmbH & Co. KG v. Verbraucherzentrale NRW. The ECJ found that websites that integrate Facebook plugins are jointly responsible for the data … [Read more] about FashionID: Another Significant ECJ Case with Potential Impacts Across the Adtech Ecosystem
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 … [Read more] about Peter Swire’s Op-ed: Schrems II Ruling Could Rupture Trans-Atlantic Data Flows