Colorado and Connecticut’s Privacy Laws Take Effect July 1 In less than a month, on July 1, 2023, the Colorado Privacy Act and the Connecticut Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act will become enforceable. Read our compliance manuals here…
Indiana Passes Data Privacy Law On May 1, Indiana became the seventh state to pass a comprehensive data privacy law when Governor Eric Holcomb signed the Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (ICDPA) into law. Per Baker Botts, the ICDPA closely…
U.S. Congresswoman Decries TikTok Ban According to The Hill, not all U.S. legislators are ready to ban TikTok, despite recent hearings that have placed the social media company’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew in the hot seat. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)…
TikTok to Migrate Data to European Servers Last month, both the U.S. House of Representatives and the European Commission ordered their respective staffs to remove TikTok—which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance—from any and all work devices. And late last year,…
The U.S. Congress House Energy and Commerce Committee is scheduled to meet with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew next month to discuss its fate in the U.S. The hearing is just the latest regulatory scrutiny of TikTok’s ownership by Beijing…
Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework Hits Block The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs has rejected a draft version of the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. The draft framework, designed to govern the flow of personal data between…
Cybersecurity Market to Reach $403 Billion by 2027 ADCG’s report on 2023 privacy predictions noted a deficit in skilled privacy professionals. This week, Fortune confirms the lack, citing a global survey of 1,890 data privacy IT, audit, compliance, and risk…
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…
EU Takes Aim at TikTok Over Privacy Violations Though the U.S. has been exploring ways to curtail or even ban popular social media platform TikTok, it’s possible that European regulators might be closer to taking action against the Chinese-owned company.…
On January 4, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced it had taken enforcement actions against Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, for violating the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The charges stem from complaints originally filed…
