Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On May 4, 2020, Californians for Consumer Privacy (the group behind the ballot initiative that inspired the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”)) announced that it had collected over 900,000 signatures to qualify the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) for the November 2020 ballot. The group announced that it was taking steps to submit…
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Republicans Poised To Introduce COVID-19 Privacy Bill
Libbie Canter of Covington & Burling summarizes key features of a new bill being introduced in Congress. Read her write-up on InsidePrivacy. The following is the senator’s press release about the bill: April 30, 2020 U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, John Thune, R-S.D, chairman of…
Texas Still Won’t Say Which Nursing Homes Have COVID-19 Cases. Families Are Demanding Answers.
by Lomi Kriel, Vianna Davila, ProPublica, and Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune. This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. As elderly and vulnerable citizens continue to die from COVID-19 in closed-off long-term…
Microsoft can’t get its privacy bill passed in its home state. It’s trying its luck elsewhere.
Issie Lapowsky reports: Microsoft’s multiyear effort to get privacy legislation passed in its home state of Washington came up short for a second time last month when state legislators couldn’t agree on a compromise version of what would have become the Washington Privacy Act. But the losses at home haven’t stopped Microsoft from trying elsewhere….