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Latest California Privacy Rules Draw Criticism from All Sides
Business, labor and consumer interests expressed sharply differing views at a public forum last month over proposed California rules that would govern how companies use customers' personal information for anything from hiring decisions to advertising.
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Unraveling The American Data Privacy Patchwork: Will the American Privacy Rights Act Succeed?
As the focus on protecting personal data continues to grow with the ever-widening adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, exponential increases in the number and breadth of data breaches, and growing awareness of the risk posed by data brokers, the time appears right for a U.S. federal data privacy regulation to succeed in Congress. But is the new American Privacy Rights Act that regulation?
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Is Genetic Information the Next Privacy Battleground?
GIPA litigation remains in its early stages, but the possibility of exorbitant statutory damages could make GIPA the next major trend in privacy class action litigation.
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New Federal Privacy Legislation Has Legitimate Shot At Passing
For years, the business community has been calling for a comprehensive federal privacy law, frustrated with operating under a patchwork of sometimes-conflicting state laws. Now, Congress is considering one that's extremely wide-ranging and that observers say has a legitimate chance of passage.
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Privacy Risk Management & Data Minimization
Many organizations — from growing start-ups to mature, well-established companies — are struggling with the new reality of what it means to manage data in an era of digital transformation, exponential data growth, and expanding regulatory regimes focusing on data management and minimization.
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Washington My Health My Data Act FAQs: Data Subject Rights
Like so many other features of the MHMDA, data subject rights are deceptively complicated and have the potential to create significant administrative hurdles to getting it right. In this article, we examine the tricky issues in our MHMDA FAQs and take a deep dive into data subject rights.
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What Employers Need to Know About Employee Privacy
Many employers struggle with not only identifying what is private protectable information, but also how to safeguard that information while also protecting the company's own business interests. Given the increased costs of litigation, it is critical that employers understand their obligations under the law and how to strike a legally compliant balance between these competing interests.
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U.S. Regulators Lift the Curtain on Data Practices with Assessment, Reporting and Audit Requirements
The assessment and audit requirements of the new generation of state data protection laws will force U.S. companies to move beyond mere window dressing and instead require them to develop fulsome data protection programs.
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New Jersey Passes Privacy Law
The New Jersey law follows states, such as California, Texas, and Connecticut, who have enacted privacy laws, including broad laws addressing consumer data privacy, children's privacy laws, consumer health data privacy laws, and data broker laws.
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'Keyword Warrants' Pose Privacy Threat
The practice of seeking a "keyword warrant" is a technique of dragnet policing. A keyword warrant requires the production of all IP addresses for anyone who inputs a particular word or phrase into an internet search engine. The search results are then used to identify a device user.
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