California’s Attorney General, Xavier Becerra (the AG), has no plans to delay enforcement of the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA or the Act) during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Although the CCPA went into effect on January 1, 2020, the statute does not authorize enforcement of the Act to begin until July 1, 2020, or…
On April 30, 2020, Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announced his plan to introduce the “COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act.” The bill, which is co-sponsored by three Republican Senators—Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)—aims to protect consumer geolocation…
LinkedIn is challenging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s September ruling that the data aggregation and analytics company, hiQ Labs, Inc., can “scrape” personal data of users from LinkedIn’s platform, analyze the data, and sell its findings to employers. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court granted an extension for LinkedIn to submit…
Laura Clark Fey presented Lessons Learned from Recent Data Breaches & Ten Critical Steps to Reduce Your Organization’s Risk of Becoming the Next Data Breach Victim at the IMA Kansas City Fall Conference, on October 25, 2019, at Parkville, Missouri. Huge data breaches continue to make headlines. Billions of personal data records have been breached…
Laura Clark Fey presented Lessons Learned from Recent Data Breaches & Ten Critical Steps to Reduce Your Organization’s Risk of Becoming the Next Data Breach Victim at the Association of Corporate Counsels, Mid-America Chapter, on October 9, 2019, at Omaha, Nebraska. Huge data breaches continue to make headlines. Billions of personal data records have been…
On October 10, the California Attorney General released the long-awaited proposed regulations (“CCPA Regulations” or “Regulations”) for the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). As noted in the press release announcing the CCPA Regulations, the Regulations are intended to operationalize the CCPA, provide additional guidance to consumers and businesses subject to the CCPA, and address some…
At the IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2019 conference on September 25, 2019, Laura Clark Fey, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, PLS, Principal with Fey LLC; Jill Cusack, FIP, Privacy Officer, American Fidelity; and Christopher Kunke, CIPP/US, VP, Information and Technology, Corporate Legal, MGM Studios will present ……….Data: Here, There, Everywhere? Operationalizing Data Management Strategies This panel discussion will explore the…
A future where facial recognition, fingerprints, and other biometrics are used for payments without needing a credit card, smartwatch, or mobile phone to facilitate the payment may not be too far off. Fey LLC’s Hannah Zimmerman was interviewed for a MarketWatch article, Silicon Valley’s Final Frontier for Mobile Payments – ‘The Neoliberal Takeover of the…
Conference Program for September 11 – September 13, 2019 Laura Clark Fey, Privacy Law Specialist (IAPP), CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP, Principal of Fey LLC, and co-panelists Jill Cusack, Assistant Vice President, Privacy Officer American Fidelity Assurance Company, and Katie Koelling, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Thrivent, will discuss strategies for life insurance companies to comply…
In the past two years, a flurry of states have enacted laws and amendments to laws governing businesses’ collection, use, sharing, and protection of consumers’ personal information, including the SHIELD Act (SHIELD Act or Act) in New York, amendments to Nevada’s Security and Privacy of Personal Information Law, and the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). …
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced this month that it will be implementing new contractor cybersecurity standards by January of 2020. The new standards, known as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), will have five maturity levels, ranging from “basic” cyber hygiene to “state-of-the-art,” and will incorporate guidance from the National Institute of Standards and…
Privacy Law Specialist Laura Clark Fey, Principal of Fey LLC, has been appointed as chair of the DRI Center for Law and Public Policy’s new Electronic Privacy Working Group. The DRI Center for Law and Public Policy acts as a think tank and the public voice of DRI on issues of import to the defense…
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