Amy Howe reports: Nearly 24 hours after a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state went into effect, the Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed what it had previously only implied through its failure to act the night before: The court rejected a request to block enforcement of the law, which abortion providers…
Category: Laws
Illinois’ Protecting Household Privacy Act Was Signed Into Law. Now What?
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: On August 27, 2021, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Protecting Household Privacy Act into law. It goes into effect Jan. 1, 2022. House Bill 2553 prohibits Illinois law enforcement agencies from obtaining household electronic data or direct the acquisition of household electronic data from a private third party….
Ohio Introduces CCPA-like Consumer Privacy Bill
Delonie A. Plummer of JacksonLewis writes: Consumer privacy issues are as a hot as ever, and on the radar of the state and federal legislature alike. Following in the footsteps of California, and most recently Virginia and Colorado, Ohio introduced a comprehensive consumer privacy bill, the Ohio Personal Privacy Act (the “Act”). By introducing the Act, Ohio…
Official Guidelines issued for Japan’s upcoming data privacy law amendments
Hiroto Imai and Mizue Kakiuchi of Hogan Lovells write: On 3 August 2021, Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission (“PPC”) published its long-awaited Guidelines on amendments enacted in 2020 (the “2020 amendments”) to Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (the “APPI”). While many of the 2020 amendments do not take effect until 1 April 2022,…