On September 25, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 980 (“SB 980″), California’s “Genetic Information Privacy Act,” which sought to regulate direct-to-consumer genetic marketing companies and other entities that collect and process consumer genetic information. Newsom vetoed the bill because he believed the broad language of the bill conflicts with current COVID-19 testing…
The California legislature recently passed several privacy-related bills, including Assembly Bill 713 (AB 713) and Senate Bill 980 (SB 980). AB 713 amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to exempt specific health information from the CCPA. SB 980, or the Genetic Information Privacy Act (the “Act”), creates data privacy and security compliance obligations for…
Following a reassessment of the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, Adrian Lobsiger, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner of Switzerland (Commissioner), has downgraded the U.S. ranking in terms of its data protection practices. The Commissioner concluded in his policy paper of September 8, 2020, that the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield, does not provide “adequate protection under certain circumstances.”
On August 30, 2020, the California state legislature passed Assembly Bill 1281 (AB-1281), which amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to extend the CCPA’s employee and business-to-business exemptions by one year, until January 1, 2022. Under these exemptions, businesses subject to the CCPA are not required to comply with the CCPA’s full requirements regarding…
(913)948-6300 
