Indiana recently amended its breach notification law to include as personal information age verification information collected by adult websites. At the same time, the state passed a new law for adult websites. The law required that these sites use a “reasonable” method to verify users’ ages. The law also creates a private right of action for parents of minors who access the sites. The law has been blocked, however, by a lawsuit arguing it violates First Amendment.Continue Reading Indiana Amends Breach Notification Law Along with New Adult Website Verification Requirement
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The Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge: Record-Keeping and Related Requirements
It’s been a busy summer for US state privacy laws, and companies now need to keep track of a growing list of requirements from these laws. These include many we have written about in the past, including notice, vendor contract provisions, and offering consumers rights and choices. The laws also impose certain record keeping requirements, which we discuss here.Continue Reading The Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge: Record-Keeping and Related Requirements
The Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge: Approaching Notice Obligations
When thinking about privacy notice obligations, companies often -incorrectly- leap to the wording in their privacy policies. The new comprehensive state privacy laws are a reminder that notice obligations are a bit broader than mere privacy policies. To the extent that these laws apply to your organization (see our prior applicability post) there are some notice-related obligations to keep in mind.Continue Reading The Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge: Approaching Notice Obligations
The Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge: Updating Vendor Contracts
Of the many worries on privacy compliance teams’ lists as we face the onslaught of state “general” privacy laws are the impacts they have on vendor contracts. Fortunately for those who have already had to deal with contracts with vendors (service providers, processors) in California or EU’s GDPR, the impact should be fairly minimal.Continue Reading The Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge: Updating Vendor Contracts
The Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge: What to Do About “Profiling”
With a little less than a week before the next US state “comprehensive” privacy laws (Colorado and Connecticut) go into effect, many are reviewing existing practices. One that keeps coming up is the concept of “profiling.” As a reminder, we now have 11 states with comprehensive privacy laws: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.Continue Reading The Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge: What to Do About “Profiling”
The Lone Star State Joins the Privacy Law Deluge: Another Governor Signs
Texas has now become the 11th state, following Florida, to have a “comprehensive” privacy law. HB 4 was signed by the governor on June 18, 2023. This caps off a busy spring for state lawmakers not only in Texas, but Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, and Montana. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2024 (the ability for agents to submit rights requests is not effective until January 1, 2025 however). For a round-up of state laws’ effective dates, visit here.Continue Reading The Lone Star State Joins the Privacy Law Deluge: Another Governor Signs
The Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge: Approaching Choice and Rights
Companies may want to review their consumer rights processes as we approach July 1. This is the date of enforcement for those parts of CCPA modified by CPRA. It is also the effective date of two more state privacy laws: Colorado and Connecticut. Neither law is substantively much different from California and Virginia, but if an entity was not subject to those laws it may be subject to those in these two additional states. Let’s recap the requirements around choice and individual rights:Continue Reading The Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge: Approaching Choice and Rights
The Comprehensive US Privacy Law Deluge: Which US Privacy Laws Apply to Your Company?
The US has what appears to be a never-ending list of comprehensive privacy laws, but do they all apply to your organization? Not necessarily.Continue Reading The Comprehensive US Privacy Law Deluge: Which US Privacy Laws Apply to Your Company?
Preparing for the US Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge
With January well in the rear view mirror, companies are setting their privacy compliance sights on the next two laws to come into effect on July 1, 2023: Colorado and Connecticut. Knowing, of course, that Utah (December 31, 2023) is not far behind. To say nothing of five more on the horizon, in order of effective date:Continue Reading Preparing for the US Comprehensive Privacy Law Deluge