By Jennifer K. Wagner While the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, which gave us excitement in June 2022 (as we discussed on this blog) did not make it across the finish line, this year much excitement has been generated by the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA). The APRA is a bicameral and bipartisan
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By Jennifer K. Wagner, J.D., Ph.D. As 2023 winds down, it is important to review the many changes to data privacy laws that have occurred in the United States. While federal privacy law reform has not come to fruition, by all other accounts this year has been a busy one. The changes have taken
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By Jennifer K. Wagner, J.D., Ph.D. While people tend to think of California as the state leading the nation on comprehensive data privacy law protections (with CCPA and CPRA) and Illinois as the state leading the way on biometric-specific data protections (with BIPA), Washington is worthy of similar attention for its adoption of meaningful
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By Jennifer K. Wagner, J.D., Ph.D. At the open commission meeting held on May 18, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously (3-0) to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to make modifications to the Health Breach Notification (HBN) Rule (16 CFR Part 318). Proposed changes to the FTC HBN Rule
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By Krishna A. Jani, CIPP/US, Flaster Greenberg PC The Technology Businesses with consumer-facing websites face a bit of a legal “Wild West” with regard to the collection of data at the moment. Most businesses collect some degree of consumer or site visitor data using cookies, web beacons, and/or session replay software. That data
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