On April 27, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law the state’s sweeping health privacy bill – the My Health Data Act.[1] The act, which establishes a comprehensive privacy framework for entities that do business in the state and that handle consumer health data, will take effect less than a…
Businesses barely had time to recover from a hectic privacy summer, with U.S. privacy legislation making progress on the Hill and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s launch of a sweeping rulemaking initiative, when California Attorney General Rob Bonta dropped a bombshell: The first enforcement settlement under the California Consumer Privacy Act. Pursuant…
If businesses thought August would bring a lull from the breakneck pace of privacy policymaking — including a draft federal privacy law, five new state privacy laws and a dizzying array of global privacy regulations from the EU to China to Japan — the U.S. Federal Trade Commission had other…
On August 11, 2022, the FTC issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to request public comment on commercial privacy and security practices and their effects on consumers. The ANPR is a first – and tentative – step towards the development of privacy and data security regulations that would,…
As President Biden calls for stronger online privacy protections for children, Congress has been busy at work to answer the bell. On February 16, 2022, Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) & Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced their highly anticipated bill aimed at protecting children’s health and well-being online – the Kids Online…