On March 28, the Iowa legislature unanimously approved a data privacy law, Senate File 262 (SF262). The law applies to any person or entity conducting business in Iowa or producing products or services targeted at Iowa residents, controls or processes…
Blockchain Rules Will Emerge On January 9, a group of 28 Blockchain technology companies released an open letter to U.S. legislators requesting they protect citizens’ safety, right to self-determination, freedom of press, and “other rights that compose the core of…
On October 3, the UK’s newest Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Michelle Donelan, affirmed the UK government’s intention to move away from the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The UK government has already proposed…
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…
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…
Connecticut’s Data Privacy Bill Advances, Excludes Financial Institutions Connecticut is moving forward with comprehensive data privacy legislation that would resemble Virginia’s VCDPA. The state senate last week unanimously voted to advance Senate Bill 6. The House and Governor Ned Lamont…
On March 2, 2021, Virginia enacted the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), becoming the second U.S. state, after California, to enact a comprehensive data privacy law. Although the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the VCDPA are at the…
When the European Union (EU) enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 2, 2018, the world was introduced to the concept of data minimization. According to Article 5 of the GDPR, data minimization means “personal data shall be…
