Jim Halpert and Samantha Kersul write: For the third straight year, the Washington State Legislature missed an opportunity to pass a multi-rights general data privacy bill before it adjourned Sunday. The failure illustrates the difficulty of passing broad privacy legislation in an environment where both business and privacy and trial lawyer groups are well organized and…
Category: Laws
Portuguese DPA Orders Suspension of U.S. Data Transfers by Agency That Relied on SCCs
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 27, 2021, the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados, the “CNPD”) ordered the National Institute of Statistics (the “INE”) to suspend, within 12 hours, any international transfers of personal data to the U.S. or other third countries that have not been recognized as providing an…
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul applauds Senate passage of bill to expand and strengthen address confidentiality program
April 22 – Attorney General Kwame Raoul applauded the Illinois Senate’s unanimous passage of his legislation to expand and strengthen Illinois’ Address Confidentiality Program (ACP) to include protections for survivors of human trafficking. The ACP is administered by the Attorney General’s office and currently provides survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, and members…
FERPA 101: Duties, Processes, and Issues to Keep in Mind During Litigation
Foley Hoag writes: As colleges and universities know, higher education institutions have a duty to protect the confidentiality of student records, codified in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g. When such documents are requested in the course of litigation, FERPA dictates the processes and standards a school must apply in…