Congress Holds Data Privacy Hearing The Congressional Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce held a hearing last week to discuss the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). Titled, “Promoting US Innovation and Individual Liberty through a National Standard for…
Governor Newsom, CPPA File Opposition to Federal Preemption This week, Governor Gavin Newsom, along with California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) sent a joint letter to the House Energy & Commerce Committee in advance…
Phishing Attacks on the Rise, and Other Data Privacy Trends in Asia A recent Kaspersky report noted that more than 11 million phishing links were blocked by its Anti-Phishing system a year in Southeast Asia, primarily in Vietnam, Indonesia and…
Speaker Pelosi Makes Statement on Federal Data Privacy House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement last week on the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, which has advanced out of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Pelosi commended the work of…
Privacy Experts Voice Concern Over FTC’s Data Privacy Agenda The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week announced its intent to create and enforce new rules governing commercial surveillance—a term the FTC is using to describe the far-reaching ways that businesses…
House Advances American Data Privacy and Protection Act In a landmark step forward for consumer data privacy, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to move forward with the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) last week. Lawmakers…
American Data Privacy and Protection Act Moves Forward Last week, on June 23, the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce began marking up the ADPPA. The bill’s sponsors call the markup process the next “major” step toward passing the…
Cybersecurity Named Top Driver of Legal Disputes The 2021 Annual Litigation Trends Survey from Norton Rose Fulbright, which surveyed 250 U.S. General counsel and litigation leaders, has identified technological progression and its inherent cybersecurity risks as a primary threat vector…
On June 3, the U.S. Senate released a draft of the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). If passed into law, it would be the nation’s first comprehensive federal data privacy standard. Currently, data privacy in the United…
