So far into 2025, we continue to see productivity from state legislatures addressing consumer privacy, with 19 new state comprehensive privacy bills introduced across 10 state legislatures. This blog posts summarizes the most notable updates with regard to state comprehensive privacy
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New York Legislature Passes a New Health Privacy Law
This blog post summarizes notable provisions of HIPA and highlight key takeaways for companies looking to understand how this bill will affect their health data privacy compliance obligations.
California AG Issues AI Advisories
On January 13, 2025, the California AG’s Office (“AGO”) issued two legal advisories regarding the application of existing California law to AI generally as well as the use of AI specifically in healthcare.
Health Data Privacy & Security: A Look Back at the Final Enforcement Push From HHS Under the Biden Administration
In the final days of the Biden Administration, HHS OCR resolved numerous investigations, bringing 22 HIPAA enforcement actions and securing $9.9 million in settlements. This post summarizes the Risk Analysis Initiative settlements, key takeaways, and potential changes under the Trump…
Year in Review: 2024 CCPA Litigation Trends
While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its extensive privacy compliance obligations, the law also provides for a limited private right of action for certain security-related breaches.
State Comprehensive Privacy Law Update – January 28, 2025
This blog post is one of several over the next several months providing recurring updates on state comprehensive privacy law legislation.
Texas AG Brings First Ever Lawsuit Under a State Comprehensive Privacy Law
On January 13, 2025, the Texas Attorney General (AG) announced a lawsuit against insurance company Allstate, and its subsidiary, Arity, for allegedly collecting, using and selling the geolocation and movement of Texan drivers.
Year in Review: The Top Ten US Data Privacy Developments from 2024
2024 was another year of substantial legislative and regulatory advances at the international, federal and state levels with regard to data protection law. This blog post summarizes the top ten data privacy developments from the past year.
Colorado AG Finalizes New Rules for CPA
On December 5, the Colorado AG’s Department of Law completed its most recent round of rulemaking and adopted a new set of rule amendments for the Colorado Privacy Act.
Supervision and Enforcement of the European Union’s AI Act
This blog post introduces the universe of European and national authorities and other relevant actors in the area of supervision and enforcement of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act and provides a brief overview of possible penalties under the AI…