There’s a lot of coverage out there in the past few days about the CCPA. Here’s one by y Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian and Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis: Lots of action for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the last few days! After much anticipation, on October 10th, 2019, California Attorney General Xavier…
Category: Laws
New Draft ePrivacy Regulation Released
Kristof Van Quathem of Covington & Burling writes: The Council of EU Member States – one of the two main EU lawmaking bodies – recently released a new draft version of the ePrivacy Regulation (“EPR”). Negotiations on the regulation have been deadlocked for a while, but seem to be gathering new momentum under the Finnish Presidency. Below…
NY State Law Prohibits Ambulances and First Responders From Selling Patient Data
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: “New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation that will effectively prohibit ambulance and first response service providers from disclosing or selling patient data to third parties for marketing purposes. The bill was signed into law on October 7. The new law bans the sale of patient data, or…
Understand the Internet’s Most Important Law Before Changing It
Jeff Kosseff, who has a book about Section 230 that more people need to read, writes: When I started writing a book about an arcane internet law more than three years ago, I never could have predicted the controversy that I would encounter. My book, The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet, tells the history of Section 230 of the…