Following an 11th Circuit Court decision that struck down a 2018 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order as “unenforceably vague,” the FTC has “instructed staff to closely review [their] orders to determine whether they could be strengthened and improved – particularly in the areas of privacy and data security.” Recent enforcement orders show the FTC
A Florida privacy bill, resembling one passed last year in Nevada, would introduce significant new privacy notice requirements for Florida operators similar to the California Consumer Privacy Act, and require giving consumers the ability to opt out of a sale of information.
The privacy “notice” would need to include several items. Most importantly, the operator
On the sixth day of CCPA the California Senate Health Committee gave to me … a HIPAA carve-out.
AB 713, reported favorably by the California Senate Health Committee, would expand the exemption related to HIPAA and medical research.
“Though it’s hard to predict what will happen with regard to a federal privacy bill in 2020, the reality is that the CCPA is here and other states will surely follow,” writes Jedidiah Bracy of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
“In addition to driving policy talks in the nation’s capital, the CCPA may also
The House Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled a first draft of a bipartisan federal privacy bill.
Staffers on the committee sent the draft legislation to stakeholders and are seeking comments by mid-January. The draft from Republican and Democratic staffers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee comes as the Senate continues to wrestle with its
Colorado should enact a privacy law to hold tech companies accountable for consumer harms because the federal government isn’t likely to adopt a measure, the state’s attorney general, Phil Weiser (D), said in a Dec. 9 interview with Bloomberg Law.
“It’s likely we pass a privacy law” in Colorado in 2020 that would provide
If at first you don’t succeed at passing a state privacy law, (study more) and try again.
Texas is trying a new approach at formulating a state privacy law through the establishment of the Texas Privacy Protection Advisory Council. The council has been tasked with studying data protection laws not only in Texas, but also
Prep for CCPA now, enjoy compliance later.
The Future of Privacy Forum’s Stacey Gray and Polly Sanderson’s comparison of two federal privacy bills shows that steps businesses are taking to comply with the CCPA will serve them well if a federal law is passed:
Beware the federal privacy bill.
“Although there are key differences, the two [federal privacy] bills also have important similarities:
A new comprehensive federal privacy bill, the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA), has been introduced by Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.) Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).
Key novel provisions per International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Research Director Caitlin Fennessy: