Inside Privacy

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Note that the data localization prohibition in this Regulation applies to individual EU Member States’ laws; it does not preclude the EU from implementing data localization requirements. The restrictions on transfers of non-personal data appear to serve two main purposes.

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Data Strategy and Security team at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has authored the 2022 edition of the Privacy Law Answer Book (Practising Law Institute, 2021), a user-friendly guide to the laws and regulations that govern how companies collect, use, store and transfer the personal information of their consumers and employees.

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Percipient

MAY 8, 2025

Are confidentiality and data protection covered? Contracts often involve sensitive information. If that data isnt properly protected, it opens the door to potential risks that could hurt your reputation or lead to legal trouble. Also, check which states laws apply and what venue or court disputes will be heard.

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Debevoise Data Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”) and amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)—enshrined in the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”)—take effect on January 1, 2023. These developments have companies understandably concerned about complying with a patchwork of state laws.

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Debevoise Data Blog

APRIL 29, 2022

In prior posts, we have written about the evolving state privacy law landscape, including how to prepare for state privacy laws coming into effect in 2023 here ; various aspects of the CCPA and CPRA, including here and here ; and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”) here.

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

These laws do not target facial recognition in particular but regulate the use of biometric information (which includes many forms of facial data) among the many types of personal data that they cover. Jurisdictions vary on whether photographs are covered as a form of biometric data.

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Debevoise Data Blog

MAY 23, 2022

Like other state privacy laws, the CTPA contains a number of entity-based and data-based exemptions, including financial institutions covered by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, national securities associations that are registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and data regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, among other exemptions.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JULY 11, 2023

Ellington explains that the impetus for creating SessionGuardian came from working with a law firm to secure their work with eDiscovery vendors and contract attorney staffing agencies. Ellington realized the technology could provide secure access to sensitive information from anywhere.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 12, 2022

Even if not enacted, its provisions are likely to influence a future federal privacy law. And, in many ways, the ADPPA may set a new minimum standard that will shape any state laws passed to fill the void left by the lack of a federal privacy law. We’ve previously written about the development of U.S. ADPPA § 2(8).

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Debevoise Data Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Federal and State Legislation There is currently no federal law that specifically regulates biometric privacy. Among other proposed federal legislation, the National Biometric Information Privacy Act of 2020 died in Congress last year. It would also prohibit disclosure of such data, with limited exceptions.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JULY 9, 2021

further in the direction of European-style privacy law. Colorado and Nevada join California and Virginia in adding to the growing patchwork of disparate state laws — making it that much harder for any business seeking to have a single privacy program that is compliant everywhere.

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Debevoise Data Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

These new measures include public reporting on the FTC’s criminal referral efforts on a regular basis, the development of guidelines for referrals and regular meetings with federal, state, and local criminal authorities to facilitate coordination. Although the FTC and U.S.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

MARCH 7, 2025

California , mandating that law enforcement obtain a warrant before searching digital information and underscoring the critical need for privacy protections in the digital age. [1] 15, 2025), [link] [18] The Associated Press, Utah’s new social media law means children will need approval from parents , NPR (Mar.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 26, 2025

Pornhub also challenged Judge Coogler’s distinction between disseminating “information,” which is protected by 230, and possessing “contraband,” which is not. (“Judge Coogler reasoned that CSAM is itself a violent crime, a record of that crime, and contraband not information.”)

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