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Not Just Your Same Old Privacy Legislation: A Compliance Briefing for Privacy Officers on the New Canadian Consumer Privacy Protection Act Image

Not Just Your Same Old Privacy Legislation: A Compliance Briefing for Privacy Officers on the New Canadian Consumer Privacy Protection Act

John Beardwood & Shan Arora

Part One In a Series This article, which reviews the Canadian Consumer Privacy Protection Act, first seeks to identify the delta between the Act and PIPEDA in order to allow privacy officers of organizations that are already PIPEDA compliant to identify the net new compliance requirements under the Act and second, to highlight the provisions of the Act which, if breached, could lead to the imposition of significant fines.

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Data Privacy and Security Considerations for Mobile Health App Developers and Their Counsel Image

Data Privacy and Security Considerations for Mobile Health App Developers and Their Counsel

Angela Matney

In light of the evolving legal and regulatory landscape, app developers and their counsel should examine developers' privacy and security practices and take steps to safeguard sensitive data related to reproductive health.

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California's Latest Privacy Rulemaking Proposes Further Obligations for Businesses   Image

California's Latest Privacy Rulemaking Proposes Further Obligations for Businesses  

Kyle Fath, Alan Friel, Shea Leitch & David J. Oberly

While the the California Privacy Protection Agency kicked some of the more difficult issues down the road for further consideration, its first draft of proposed Regs is quite comprehensive with respect to the issues addressed. The authority for some of what is proposed is questionable and will likely be challenged in comments, if not judicial action, if such provisions become final.

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California 'Right to Know Act' Sets Off Alarm Bells Ring for Privacy Experts Image

California 'Right to Know Act' Sets Off Alarm Bells Ring for Privacy Experts

Isha Marathe

While state data privacy legislation is picking up across the U.S., a California bill that recently passed the State Senate and has remained largely under the radar, has some privacy experts raising alarm bells.

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Metaverse Raises Privacy and Cybersecurity Concerns Image

Metaverse Raises Privacy and Cybersecurity Concerns

Oriana Alexander, Wail Jihadi & Bryan Parker

The Metaverse will be the next version of the Internet that provides an immersive virtual experience. For now, the extent to which Metaverse technology will be integrated into our physical world remains unknown. This raises new concerns about data privacy, cybersecurity, new cybercrimes and constitutional issues.

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Ninth Circuit Allows Data Scraping from LinkedIn Image

Ninth Circuit Allows Data Scraping from LinkedIn

Marianna Wharry

The Ninth Circuit reaffirmed data analytics company hiQ Labs Inc.'s ability to scrape publicly available data from LinkedIn's platform despite the social media company's claim that the data collected violated federal hacking laws.

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California Consumer Privacy Law Cases Climbing, and Not Just In California Image

California Consumer Privacy Law Cases Climbing, and Not Just In California

Jessica Mach

Plaintiffs filed 145 lawsuits last year to enforce provisions under the CCPA, a 60% increase from 2020. Lawsuits alleging violations of the California law were also filed across the country, pending at one point in 33 courts across 20 states.

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Examining the Differences Between Data Privacy and Data Security Image

Examining the Differences Between Data Privacy and Data Security

Melissa Griffins Paulk

As businesses develop data protection frameworks to ensure compliance, it is important for companies to design a data protection program that contemplates data privacy and data security individually, to achieve the most comprehensive data protection program.

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Taming the Data Privacy Chaos in Contract Management Image

Taming the Data Privacy Chaos in Contract Management

Gretchen Bakhshai

How contract management practitioners can remain in compliance with rapid changes in data privacy regulations.

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Building AI and Machine Learning Technologies: Data Licensing Tips and Traps Image

Building AI and Machine Learning Technologies: Data Licensing Tips and Traps

Anna Remis

Data is the fuel for software development, and developers use historical data from existing products to train algorithms and build AI and machine learning models. Companies are well aware of privacy and regulatory restrictions on data use, but often do not consider the potential impact of data use restrictions on intellectual property ownership and use rights.

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