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A Guide to Florida’s Proposed Version of CCPA

March 5, 2021
Amy Willcox
Breach Notification, CCPA, Consumer Privacy, GDPR

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been an influential model for other states as they draft their own data privacy legislation. Recent laws from Virginia and Minnesota closely resemble CCPA, and now Florida has made joined the movement with a new data privacy law that is strikingly similar to California’s. The bill, called HB…

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Minnesota Proposes its Own Version of CCPA

February 19, 2021
Amy Willcox
CCPA, Data Privacy, Data Protection, GDPR, Privacy, State Laws, US Regulatory

Ever since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) set the tone for state-level privacy laws, more and more states have followed suit. At the start of the year, Minnesota proposed its own data privacy bill–and yes, it’s heavily influenced by CCPA. The bill, known as HF-36,has been sent for referral to the Committee on Commerce,…

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The Washington Privacy Act is Back in Play

January 14, 2021
Amy Willcox
CCPA, Compliance, Consumer Privacy, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Privacy, State Laws

It’s been a turbulent journey for the Washington Privacy Act (WPA). When initially proposed in 2019, the legislation seemed like Washington’s answer to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), establishing a stricter approach to state-level data privacy. However, the bill narrowly failed to pass in 2019, meeting the same fate when reworked in 2020. Though…

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2020 News in Review

Week Ending December 28 ICO Warns SolarWinds Victims to Report Breaches The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning to organizations compromised by the SolarWinds breach. The breach, which was carried out by Russian hackers, affected more than 18000 organizations worldwide. ICO requires UK data controllers subject to NIS regulations to report…

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ADCG Launches Data Privacy Law Comparison Tool

December 16, 2020
Amy Willcox
Brazil, Breach response, C-Suite, CCPA, Compliance, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Japan, Members Only, New York State, Penalties and Enforcement, US Regulatory

In 2018, the European Union launched its landmark data privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). What followed can only be described as a wave of data privacy laws that swept the globe. Legislators from California to Brazil, to New Zealand have passed some form of data privacy law with the potential to impact…

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Why Most Data Privacy Laws Are Deeply Flawed

Do you ever wonder where all your data goes? New York Times technology reporter Kashmir Hill has tried to answer that question more than a few times, with mixed results. She shared her story in a keynote address to audience members participating in The Privacy + Security Academy’s Fall Forum. In 2019, Hill exercised her…

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Update: CCPA Upgrade Passes–Everything You Need to Know

October 13, 2020
Amy Willcox
CCPA, Consumer Privacy, Data Privacy, Data Protection

Voters in California voted yes on Proposition 24 this past Election Day, November 3. The ballot measure, which creates the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CPRA), was passed with a 56 percent majority. The law, also known as “CCPA 2.0” , which qualified for the November ballot by earning the signatures of nearly one…

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Marketing And Data Governance CCPA And GDPR

How Marketing Teams Can Participate in Data Governance

September 1, 2020
Angela Lonzetta
CCPA, GDPR, Marketing

Today’s marketing teams are collecting, storing, and processing vast amounts of customer data to make high-impact decisions and build marketing strategies. It was once believed that the more data collected the better, but this has ceased to be the case in many ways. Marketing teams need to be strategic when it comes to data collection–and…

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Zooming in on Cyber Governance: Key Areas to Focus On

July 29, 2020
Jody R Westby
Breach prevention, CCPA, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Privacy

Advisory Board Member, Jody Westby, CEO of Global Cyber Risk LLC, authored this article which was originally published on July 14, 2020 in Forbes at this link. Shortly after the coronavirus shutdowns began in March 2020, businesses and people across the country started using Zoom for remote working, video meetings, and keeping up with family…

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Unforgiving GDPR Enforcement Sets the Tone for CCPA Enforcement

July 21, 2020
Amy Willcox
CCPA, GDPR

Now that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are fully-enforceable (CCPA enforcement started July 1), most of the Western world is subject to some pretty serious data privacy standards. But with any law, there’s a difference between what’s written in the rule book, and a governing body’s endgame…

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