In January 2023, companion bills on “An act protecting reproductive health access, LGBTQ lives, religious liberty and freedom of movement by banning the sale of cell phone location information” were proposed in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (H357) and in the Senate (S148). This proposed legislation is also known as…
On April 27, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law the state’s expansive health privacy law, the My Health My Data Act. Effective March 31, 2024, the MHMDA establishes a comprehensive privacy framework for entities doing business in Washington state that handle consumer health data. Reflecting a trend by lawmakers to…
Is a university a financial institution governed by the Gramm-Leach Bliley-Act (“GLBA”), or are they subject to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) and its heightened protections for individuals’ biometric data? This question has animated a series of BIPA cases in Illinois courts over the years, and has spawned…
The recent flurry of Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) activity in California and elsewhere has called into question the effectiveness of an increasingly common defense to BIPA litigation in Illinois: that federal courts in Illinois do not have personal jurisdiction over companies headquartered and incorporated in other states, and conducting…