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…
Argentina Changes Data Framework The Argentinian Congress approved changes to its Automated Processing of Personal Data Convention. The Convention, according to Dentons, “was the first binding international instrument which protects the individual against abuses which may accompany the collection and…
Our previous coverage details the many changes the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) has undergone since it was first proposed in 2020 as a replacement to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). Fingers crossed that those…
New Privacy Laws Taking Effect Next Year Five new privacy laws will come into effect in 2023. State laws from California and Virginia will take effect January 1, 2023, while laws from Colorado, and Connecticut laws will take effect in…
On August 16, California Assembly Member Cooley introduced amendments to Assembly Bill 1102 (AB1102) that would extend the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (“CCPA”) temporary exemptions for the collection of personal information derived from job applicants, employees, and contractors (collectively, the…
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…
As we recently reported, the California legislature is currently in the process of implementing the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), which is posed to take effect in January of 2023 and will issue several amendments to the California…
With the myriad of international and state privacy regulations, many organizations are turning to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve compliance with a myriad of state and national privacy laws, including Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the…
On May 27, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board announced that it will hold a public meeting on June 8, 2022 to discuss proposed changes to, and enforcement of, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA)—as amended by…
One of the most important ways to demonstrate your company’s compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is to prepare a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) for any high-risk data processing activities. The GDPR requires a DPIA for…
