Data Privacy

The People’s Republic of China (“China”) has introduced its first comprehensive data privacy law, which will explicitly prote

For the past two years, businesses have been scrambling to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)—the first comprehensive d...

On October 12, 2020, the California Attorney General published a Third Set of Modified Proposed Regulations (“Modified Regulations”) even thoug...

On September 25, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the California Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”), about which we reported here. ...

UPDATE:  On September 25, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the California Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”), about which we reported ...

The California Legislature has delayed its plans to expand the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and make all of its provis...

On April 20, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted writ of certiorari in Van Buren v. United States to consider whether a person who is authorized t...

On August 20, 2020, former Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan was charged with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony for knowingl...

With the rapid spread of COVID-19, countries around the world are implementing contact-tracing practices, which involve identifying people who may ...

On August 14, 2020, the Office of Administrative Law (“OAL”) approved the final regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”...

In June 2019, Maine’s state legislature passed the country’s first privacy law specifically regulating Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”) ...

In March 2020, Washington state passed the first law expressly regulating the government’s use of facial recognition technology and the service p...