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California AG Announces Enforcement Sweep on Employee and Job Applicant Information Practices

On July 14, 2023, California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, announced that his office had initiated an investigative sweep focused on employers’ compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) with respect to employee and job applicant personal information. Before January 1, 2023, the CCPA had excluded employment-related personal information from the scope of personal information…

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A Hot Privacy Summer: Update on State Comprehensive Privacy Law Enforcement Dates

The Statutory Language of California, Colorado, and Connecticut’s Comprehensive Privacy Laws Are Now Enforceable On July 1, 2023, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, (“CCPA”), the Colorado Privacy Act, and the Connecticut Data Privacy Act became enforceable, with some limited exceptions. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act has…

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Washington’s My Health My Data Act Just Signed into Law: It May Have a Surprising Impact on Your Privacy Program

Introduction On April 27, 2023, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1155 (“My Health My Data Act” or “Act”). The Act is designed to protect not only Washington state residents’ health data, but also health data of non-residents of Washington that is processed in any manner in the state of…

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Why Should You Be Afraid of Privacy Obligations? Because Now There will be 7, 8, 9… States with Comprehensive Data Privacy Laws!

The state of Indiana recently became the seventh U.S. state to enact a comprehensive state data privacy law. And on Friday April 21st, 2023, Montana and Tennessee’s legislatures passed comprehensive data privacy laws, which await the governors’ signatures, and are likely to become the eighth and ninth states to enact comprehensive data privacy laws. In…

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