Keypoint: Businesses that sell personal information under the CCPA are now required to honor Global Privacy Control signals. In an update to its CCPA FAQs, the California Attorney General’s office has stated that businesses that sell personal information must honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals.…

Keypoint: As introduced, the Ohio Personal Privacy Act would provide Ohio residents with some rights regarding their personal data, but it is not as extensive as the CPRA, CPA, and VCDPA. As first reported by the IAPP’s Joe Duball, on July 13, 2021, Ohio lawmakers introduced the Ohio Personal Privacy Act (House Bill 376). The bill’s primary sponsors are Republicans Rick Carfagna and Thomas Hall. The bill also has eight Republican co-sponsors…

Keypoint: On July 7, 2021, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the Colorado Privacy Act into law, making Colorado the third state to pass broad consumer privacy legislation. On July 7, 2021, Colorado officially became the third state to pass broad consumer privacy legislation when Governor Jared Polis signed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) into law. The Colorado legislature previously passed the CPA on June 8. The CPA will go into effect on July 1,…

In the third episode of our Legislating Data Privacy series, we talk with Washington Representative Shelley Kloba. If you follow proposed state privacy legislation, you know that Washington state is at its epicenter. For the past three years, the Washington legislature has considered – but failed to pass – the Washington Privacy Act. Representative Kloba is a central figure in this debate. In 2021, she authored HB 1433 – the People’s Privacy Act – a …

In the second podcast of our Legislating Data Privacy series, we talk with Minnesota Representative Steve Elkins. Representative Elkins is the co-author of HF 1492, the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act. In this wide-ranging interview, Representative Elkins discusses what happened with HF 1492 during the 2021 legislative session, his plan for reintroducing the bill in 2022, and his opinions on a wide-range of issues relating to state privacy legislation. Click here to listen to…

Keypoint: Our legislating data privacy podcast series kicks off with an in-depth conversation with Representative Collin Walke of Oklahoma. As readers of this blog know, the emergence of broad state consumer privacy legislation has been one of the dominant stories in privacy law since at least June 2018 when California lawmakers passed the California Consumer Privacy Act in response to Alastair Mactaggart’s ballot measure. State lawmakers have jumped into the void created by the absence…