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CCPA Amendments – Employees and the Loyalty Program Change Nobody is Talking About

By John Tomaszewski & Jason Priebe on July 18, 2019

Those interested in keeping up with the latest news impacting the California Consumer Privacy Act have been heavily focused on AB 25, and its potential to exclude employees from the scope of the CCPA. In a marathon late-night session, the California Senate Judiciary Committee weighed in July 11 on various bills – including AB 25. An while AB 25 was part of the Committee debate, that amendment may actually make the bill less useful than…

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Industries Seek Uniform Federal Privacy Law To Preempt Inconsistent Patchwork of State Laws

By Esther Slater McDonald on July 15, 2019

On Thursday, July 11, 2019, a diverse group of trade associations spanning numerous industries, including retail, telecom, manufacturing, and food and beverage, urged Congress to enact a consumer privacy law. In a letter to the Senate and House commerce committees, the coalition of 27 industry groups asked Congress “to act quickly to adopt a robust and meaningful national consumer privacy bill to provide uniform privacy protections for all Americans.” The coalition said that a “comprehensive federal privacy law that…

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Upcoming Webinar Series! California Consumer Privacy Act: Is your organization ready?

By Jason Priebe, John Tomaszewski & Edward "Ted" Murphree on June 18, 2019

In just a few short months, on January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is set to go into effect, establishing new consumer privacy rights for California residents and imposing significant new duties and obligations on commercial businesses conducting business in the state of California. Consumer rights include the right to know what personal information a business is collecting, selling, and disclosing about them; the right to deletion; the right to opt-out of…

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Proposed Amendment to Expand CCPA Private Action Stalls

By Jason Priebe on May 24, 2019

Cross-Posted from Carpe Datum Law Blog Senate Bill 561, which would have generated even greater compliance challenges and litigation risk for businesses, has been held in committee and placed on suspense. This development effectively prevents the bill from advancing for a vote and is a bit of CCPA good news for businesses. It also serves as a minor setback to consumer privacy interest groups and plaintiff-oriented trial lawyers, who were banking on even more lucrative…

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2019: Is This The Year of Consumer Privacy (or, Elephants, Elephants Everywhere)

By John Tomaszewski & Edward "Ted" Murphree on May 9, 2019

In prior posts, we’ve commented on the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), likening it, and its Texas ‘flavored’ variant(s), to ‘elephants in the room’. Here, we’ve opted to expand our coverage and talk about what we’re seeing other states do (or, let’s expand the elephant metaphor to: elephants, elephants everywhere.) It seems that all of a sudden, consumer privacy is THE hot topic and everyone’s jumping on the CCPA bandwagon! Consumers have woken up to…

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And Texas joins the Privacy Fray – Part 2 (or, Everything is Bigger in Texas…)

By John Tomaszewski & Edward "Ted" Murphree on April 25, 2019

In Part 1 of our ‘Texas Joins the Privacy Fray’ series, we focused on the Texas Consumer Privacy Act. Here, we shine the light on the Texas Privacy Protection Act (HB 4390). The TXPPA is distinguishable from both the TXCPA and the CCPA because the applicability threasholds are different. For the TXPPA to apply, a business must 1) be doing business in Texas; 2) have more than 50 employees; 3) collect personally identifiable information…

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And Texas Joins the Privacy Fray – Part 1 (or, the Elephant in the room just got a LOT bigger…)

By John Tomaszewski & Edward "Ted" Murphree on April 23, 2019

Last month, Texas saw the introduction of not one, but TWO privacy bills in the Texas state legislature: The Texas Consumer Privacy Act (TXCPA) and the Texas Privacy Protection Act (TXPPA). With news of this likely meeting with a collective groan and shoulder shrug, we do have some good news for you. Both bills’ foundations are set with familiar CA Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) language. Unfortunately, this is also bad news because they both suffer…

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Cyberattacks a Growing Concern for Commercial Real Estate Executives

By John Tomaszewski, Ron Gart & Christa Dommers on March 4, 2019

Seyfarth has released the results of its fourth annual Real Estate Market Sentiment Survey, which polled commercial real estate executives around the country from all sectors. Of interest to our readers, this year’s survey revealed that 69% of respondents are concerned about a cyberattack hitting their business in 2019, a significant increase compared to last year (46%). View the full survey results Cybersecurity isn’t just for technology companies anymore. More and more, we are seeing…

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The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: What Businesses Need to Know Now

By Jason Priebe & John Tomaszewski on February 12, 2019

California, home to more than 40 million people and the 5th largest economy in the world, has passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), its omnibus consumer privacy law. The law creates sweeping new requirements concerning the collection, maintenance, and tracking of information for both employees or customers who are residents of California. Many aspects of the implementation and enforcement are still being finalized by the California Attorney General. However, companies with employees or customers…

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The CA Consumer Privacy Act: The NEW Elephant in the Room

By Edward "Ted" Murphree & John Tomaszewski on January 2, 2019

Welcome to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) […as if we didn’t have enough to worry about with the GDPR!]. The bracketed, italicized text, albeit a bit cynical, is with little doubt, how many of us initially reacted to the news of a new data protection law, hailed as the standard in consumer privacy protection, in California. And while the effective date is supposed to be January of 2020, January of 2019 isn’t too early…

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CCPA Amendments – Employees and the Loyalty Program Change Nobody is Talking About

Industries Seek Uniform Federal Privacy Law To Preempt Inconsistent Patchwork of State Laws

Upcoming Webinar Series! California Consumer Privacy Act: Is your organization ready?

Proposed Amendment to Expand CCPA Private Action Stalls

2019: Is This The Year of Consumer Privacy (or, Elephants, Elephants Everywhere)

And Texas joins the Privacy Fray – Part 2 (or, Everything is Bigger in Texas…)

And Texas Joins the Privacy Fray – Part 1 (or, the Elephant in the room just got a LOT bigger…)

Cyberattacks a Growing Concern for Commercial Real Estate Executives

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: What Businesses Need to Know Now

The CA Consumer Privacy Act: The NEW Elephant in the Room

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