Andrew Wyrich reports: Several lawmakers are calling for Congress to pass federal data privacy legislation in the wake of Amazon reportedly killing or undermining bills in 25 states over the past several years. Last week, Reuters reported that confidential documents showed that the retail giant pushed to kill privacy bills in several states by increasing political donations, or lobbying to…
Category: Laws
New State Privacy Laws Impose Higher Restrictions on Processing Sensitive Personal Data
Robinson + Cole LLP write: With the passage of the Colorado Privacy Act, Colorado joins Virginia and California as early adopters of state-level privacy legislation. These laws impose higher restrictions on companies processing specific sensitive categories of data that reveal information such as sexual orientation and ethnic origin. However, the law remains unclear on what…
The Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections
Jeffrey Dastin, Chris Kirkham, and Aditya Kalra of Reuters report: In recent years, Amazon has killed or undermined privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 states, as the e-commerce giant amassed a lucrative trove of personal data on millions of American consumers. Amazon executives and staffers detail these lobbying victories in confidential documents reviewed by…
Privacy legislation reform: Bill 64 has now been passed
Jérémie Wyatt, Véronique Barry, and Imran Ahmad of Norton Rose Fulbright write: In recent updates (available here and here), we announced the tabling of Bill 64 (Bill), which purports to implement an ambitious reform of the privacy legislation framework. More than one year after being tabled, the Act to modernize legislative provisions as regard the protection of personal information has…