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…
Quebec Updates Data Privacy Law Starting in September 2022, Quebec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (Act) will take effect. Recent updates have been passed to the Act regarding biometric privacy. A summary of the…
NAAG Launches Cybersecurity Resource Center Last week the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) announced a new initiative focused on cybersecurity. The NAAG Center on Cyber and Technology (CyTech) joins other NAAG centers focused on key public interests, and will…
NIST Releases Cybersecurity Supply Chain Guidance The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released guidance on supply chain cybersecurity this week in response to the Biden administration’s Executive Order 14028—Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. The guidance, Software Supply Chain Security…
On April 28, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 144-5 in support of Senate Bill 6, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CDPA), which had already unanimously cleared the Connecticut Senate on April 20. If this Act is signed into law,…
In October 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was rebranding as “Meta,” and that Meta was working on creating the “metaverse as the successor to the mobile internet— a set of interconnected digital spaces that lets you do things you…
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…
Virginia Passes Amendments to VCDPA Governor Glenn Young of Virginia last week approved three amendments to the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA). The first amendment, H 381, creates an exemption to consumers’ right to delete, and will allow data…
On April 11, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan spoke about data privacy and security at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit 2022 in Washington, D.C. Khan began by acknowledging the expansive role that digitalization…
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), businesses are prevented from discriminating against consumers who act to exercise their rights to safeguard their personal information. However, the CPPA preserves the right of a business to charge different prices or rates…
