Data Privacy Day offers a natural checkpoint to take stock of a fast‑moving legal landscape. As of January 1, 2026, several significant U.S. state privacy laws and regulatory updates are now live, with additional U.S. and global milestones queued up
On Jan. 14, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) jointly released the “Guiding Principles of Good AI Practice in Drug Development,” a set of 10 high-level principles intended to steer the safe
On November 20, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission and defendants SolarWinds Corp. and Timothy G. Brown filed a joint stipulation to dismiss with prejudice the SEC’s civil enforcement action pending in the Southern District of New York. The SEC
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On October 21, 2025, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) released comprehensive guidance for registrants regarding management of cybersecurity risks associated with third-party service providers (TPSPs) including cloud computing, file transfer system, AI and fintech solutions.
With Halloween lurking around the corner and as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close, the McGuireWoods Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Group reminds you to not wait to be spooked by a cybersecurity incident or haunted by the
California’s Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) is a 1967 criminal wiretapping statute being stretched to govern 2025-era internet technologies. The result has been a patchwork of conflicting decisions that turn on hair-splitting distinctions about what it means to “read” a
In a significant step toward strengthening consumer privacy protections, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) board has officially adopted a comprehensive set of updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations. These long-anticipated regulations—covering cybersecurity audits, risk assessments, and
Regulators of data privacy laws have expressed a desire in recent months to intensify enforcement around opt-out preference signals, also known as universal opt-out mechanisms (the “Opt-Out Signals”).
Opt-Out Signals allow consumers to automatically opt-out of the sale and sharing
After years of waiting, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) posted to the Federal Register for public inspection on Sept. 9, 2025, a final rule implementing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 (CMMC 2.0) standards into the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement,
In 2020, California was the first mover in state comprehensive privacy law legislation, a distinction it held for approximately three years before other states took similar action. Indeed, eighteen additional states have passed their own privacy bills, along with many
