On May 9, 2024, Governor Wes Moore signed the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) making Maryland the seventeenth state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law. The law takes effect October 1, 2025, but it does not apply to…
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Maryland’s New Approach to Data Minimization Creates Unique Compliance Issues
Tagged with: data collection, data privacy, legislation, privacy, regulations, security practices, sensitive data
Posted in Legislation, Privacy
Posted in Legislation, Privacy
Artificial Intelligence Systems, Profiling, and the New U.S. State Privacy Laws
The rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in recent years has overlapped with the enactment of comprehensive privacy laws by multiple U.S. states. Aside from being generally applicable to AI systems in the same way as they are to…
Tagged with: AI, artificial intelligence, consent, legislation, privacy, state privacy laws
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Legislation, Privacy, Regulations
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Legislation, Privacy, Regulations
AI and Cybersecurity Issues Look Set to Dominate the Privacy Landscape in 2022
Meghan Stoppel, who spent over a decade serving as an Assistant Attorney General, and later a Consumer Protection Chief, to both Democratic and Republican state attorneys generals, talks to Andy Baer, Chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Technology, Privacy and Data Security…
State Privacy Law Update – Colorado and Nevada
While a uniform federal privacy law in the United States continues to be an uncertain prospect overshadowed by other national priorities such as infrastructure and COVID relief, state legislatures have pushed forward with their own privacy regimes, resulting in an…
Introduction to the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act – Part II
This is the second installment of our summary of the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”). In our first post, we covered the goals of the law as well as its applicability and thresholds, what qualifies as personal data, the…
Tagged with: controllers, data protection assessments, legislation, personal data, privacy, privacy notice, processors, VCDPA
Posted in Data Security, Legislation, Privacy, Regulations, VCDPA
Posted in Data Security, Legislation, Privacy, Regulations, VCDPA
Introduction to the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act – Part I
Virginia recently joined California in enacting a comprehensive data protection law intended to protect the privacy of its residents. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (the “VCDPA”) is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2023, so impacted businesses have…
Tagged with: CCPA, consumer, controllers, GDPR, legislation, personal data, privacy, sensitive data, VCDPA
Posted in Data Security, Legislation, Privacy, Regulations, VCDPA
Posted in Data Security, Legislation, Privacy, Regulations, VCDPA
Bipartisan Bill Would Regulate Automated COVID-19 Contact Tracing Technology
A new federal COVID-19 data privacy bill with bipartisan support, the Exposure Notification Privacy Act, would have a substantially narrower scope of application than two previous partisan draft COVID-19 privacy laws. The bipartisan bill specifically regulates “automated exposure notification services,”…
Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, Federal Privacy Legislation, legislation, technology
Posted in Legislation, Privacy, Regulations
Posted in Legislation, Privacy, Regulations
Democrats and Republicans Introduce Competing COVID-19 Data Privacy Bills
Responding to widespread calls for uniform rules and restrictions regarding the collection and use of individuals’ COVID-19-related health information, Congressional Republicans and Democrats have each recently introduced their own versions of federal COVID-19 data privacy bills. Although both parties’ bills…
Tagged with: coronavirus, COVID-19, Federal Privacy Legislation, legislation, privacy
Posted in Legislation, Privacy, Regulations
Posted in Legislation, Privacy, Regulations
Does the CCPA Apply to Financial Institutions?
Despite the global pandemic, the California Attorney General will begin enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act on July 1 as planned, so even in this new work-from-home environment, businesses must continue to work towards compliance and resolve any open issues.…
Tagged with: attorneys general, California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, CCPA, enforcement, GLBA, privacy, regulations
Posted in CCPA, Legislation, Privacy, Regulations
Posted in CCPA, Legislation, Privacy, Regulations
In Search Of A Federal Data Privacy Law
In the absence of a comprehensive federal data privacy and data security law, states continue to fill the gap. The California Consumer Privacy Act took effect on January 1, 2020, and several other states have similar laws under consideration. Nevertheless,…
