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Oregon Joins the Comprehensive State Privacy Law Elite 11
Update: In the 2024 legislative session, a fix was made to change “employees of the Attorney General” to “persons employed by the Attorney General.” See SB 1576.
For the latest on the OCPA, read: “Countdown to Compliance: Preparing for the Oregon Con...
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The FTC Is INFORMing Businesses That It Plans to Enforce This E-commerce Act
You may have missed it, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hasn’t. On June 27, 2023, the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act (the INFORM Consumers Act) is live and enforceable. The FTC has been pu...
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This Is Not a Test: The Significant Impacts of the Ireland Data Protection Commission’s Meta Decision
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), through Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), issued another fine against a large US technology company. What may come as a surprise is the scope of the Meta (fka F...
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My Health My Data: Washington’s Limited but Comprehensive Privacy Law
If you work at a HIPAA-regulated entity, you can stop reading right now. Washington’s My Health My Data Act (MHMD) aims to cover all of the health-related information that consumers believe are protected by some federal law but are not, such as...
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California Privacy Rights Act: Are You Keeping Up With The Golden State?
In November of 2020, California enacted the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which modified and expanded upon the already far-reaching California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Most of the CPRA takes effect on January 1, 2023, which may sound like...
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Washington Likely Adopting New Privacy Law in the Likeness of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation
Another state may join the movement towards adopting General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-like privacy protections. A new privacy bill was introduced in the Washington Legislature on January 17, 2019, called the Washington Privacy Act (SB 5376)....
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