Data Protection Agency Archives

CPRA Amended and Updates Regarding the CDPA

November 16, 2021
Editorial Team
California, CDPA, CPRA, Data Protection Agency, Penalties and Enforcement

State governments in California and Virginia are making efforts to improve their respective data privacy and protection laws. Last month, California passed a suite of new privacy laws that will affect CPRA. Meanwhile, Virginia’s CDPA Work Group issued its final report, which will be presented during the upcoming legislative session. Updates: California Privacy Rights Act…

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CPPA to Target Ad-Tracking

November 13, 2021
Shaswata Kapat
Cookies, CPRA, Cybersecurity, Dark Patterns, Data Protection, Data Protection Agency, Federated Learning

California is gearing up to write rules to enforce its California’s Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Regulators, led by California Privacy Protection Agency Director Ashkan Soltani, are preparing to write rules to guide that enforcement and those rules could address the new forms of identity technologies that advertisers and publishers are currently testing. Soltani criticized email-based…

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CCPA Enforcement is Picking Up. Are you Ready?

September 8, 2021
Editorial Team
CCPA, Compliance, Consumer Privacy, Data Privacy, Data Protection Agency, Penalties and Enforcement, Privacy

Although the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) has been in effect since January 1, 2020 and subject to enforcement since July 1, 2020, it seemed until recently that compliance had been somewhat spotty. Well, it’s time to wake from your compliance slumbers and start paying attention because California’s new Attorney General (“AG”) Rob Bonta has…

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New Data Protection Agencies are Forthcoming

September 4, 2021
Amy Willcox
China, Consumer Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Protection Agency, Governance, Legislation, US Data Privacy Legislation

When we think about data privacy legislation, we usually think about rules, regulations, guidelines and best practices. However, not every data privacy bill on the Senate floor is concerned with telling businesses how to handle their data. A handful of legislators are proposing internal structural changes within government to better-regulate the morphing issues of data…

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