Can consent be considered “freely given” if the alternative is to pay 10, 20 or 100 times the market price of your data to keep it to yourself?
That is what noyb.eu is asking in new complaints against seven major German and Austrian news websites.
It’s important to note that a somewhat similar test requiring
Have you been leisurely following California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) litigation thinking, “That’s only for data breaches, not ‘soft’ violations.”
Think again.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office has been busy enforcing CCPA for the past year.
Per a new enforcement report, you had better make sure that:
West Virginia has gotten into the data privacy bill game with House Bill (HB) 3159 on Consumer Data Privacy.
The legislation is similar to the California Consumer Privacy Act + the following key points:
It’s 2021 and people will (hopefully) soon be back to planning vacations and staying at hotels.
In this 30 minute video for HospitalityNet, Odia Kagan, a partner in Fox Rothschild’s Privacy & Data Security Practice, discussed the five top things hotels should think about relating to data privacy compliance.
Some thoughts from the interactive ad industry on CCPA compliance from a new IAB CCPA Benchmark survey.
California lawmakers recently passed legislation that amends the California Consumer Privacy Act.
“The most significant outcome of AB 713’s passage is that, pending California Gov. Gavin Newson’s signature, information that is deidentified is exempt from regulation under the CCPA if the information is (1) derived from patient information that is protected under HIPAA, the California
Washington state lawmakers have recast the proposed Washington Privacy Act for 2021.
“While the 2021 draft bill is similar to the 2020 version (Senate Bill 6281), its scope is broader and certain provisions appear to signal an effort to compromise on some of the contested issues. The draft 2021 WaPA includes new sections for “data
The Washington Privacy Act is back and now includes provisions for handling personal data during a public health emergency such as a pandemic.
Its provisions are closer to the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) than the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and include:
The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) has put together a helpful tracker of CCPA amendments.
There are currently five amendments in play, including amending the definition of de-identification and extending the employee and B2B carve outs until January 2022 if the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which is on the CA ballot, doesn’t pass.
Comments to the final California Consumer Privacy Act regulations asked if the CCPA carve-out regarding the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), the data protection law governing US financial institutions, applies to: