Is a U.S. federal privacy law on the horizon?
Tomorrow, September 23rd at 10:00 a.m., U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing titled, “Revisiting the Need for Federal Data Privacy Legislation.”
The hearing will examine the current state of consumer data privacy and legislative
Partners Martin Zoltick and Jenny Colgate, along with associate Caitlin Wilmot, will present a webinar titled “Connected Healthcare – Navigating the Patchwork of US Privacy Laws and Developing a Platform that Promotes Trust” for the American Bar Association (ABA) on Monday, September 21, 2020, at 1 pm ET.
As the field of connected
Have you seen the new headline about Twitter in the news? It may be time to double-check your corporate practices and check-in with your employees.
The top new FTC privacy probe concerns Twitter, which has been charged by the FTC for breaching a 2011 consent decree by using phone numbers and email addresses that users
Rothwell Figg attorneys Martin M. Zoltick and Jenny L. Colgate published a chapter titled “Privacy, Data Protection, and Cybersecurity: A State-Law Analysis” in the International Comparative Legal Guide to: Data Protection 2020, published by Global Legal Group Ltd.
While some countries have enacted comprehensive privacy and data protection laws, like the EU’s General Data Protection
Today the U.S. Supreme Court found in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. that the federal debt collection exemption to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s general prohibition on autodialed calls violates the First Amendment. The Supreme Court held that the exemption was a content-based restriction on speech because it favors speech made
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020, and enforcement begins tomorrow, July 1, 2020. Is your privacy policy compliant? Here are a few quick questions that may help you determine the answer –
Articles summarizing CCPA often state that it applies to for-profit businesses that do business in California that satisfy certain criteria, and they fail to ever mention that CCPA does apply to some non-profits.
The CCPA defines “business” as “a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, association, or other legal entity that is organized
In the United States, transparency is the name of the game in privacy law. (This is in contrast to the GDPR, which is focused on creating a “privacy by design” legal framework.) Consistent with this trend with U.S. privacy laws is New York’s Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act (POST Act), which is expected to
On June 1, 2020, the California Attorney General submitted the final text of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations to the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) for approval, which are substantially the same as the draft regulations released on March 11, 2020. Despite the ongoing development of the regulations, the CCPA took effect
Starting last month, companies around the United States started to reopen their doors to their employees and customers, but not without first considering what “checks” should be done to ensure a safe environment for all. Temperature checks, COVID-19 testing, symptom reporting, travel history questionnaires, geolocation tracking and other surveillance measures, and even using AI to