News: February 13, 2025 SACRAMENTO — On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal introduced Assembly Bill (AB) 566, sponsored by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA). The bill requires browsers and mobile operating systems to give consumers a one-step option to limit the sharing of their information with opt-out preference signals. “I firmly believe in the…
Family’s claims that San Diego County secretly filmed child in hospital room survive, judge rules
Michael Gennaro recently reported: A federal judge declined to dismiss invasion of privacy claims from a family who say San Diego County officials used cameras to spy on a minor patient for over a month in a San Diego children’s hospital. In their 2021 complaint, Madison Meyer and her family said that they didn’t find out about the…
Are Employees Receiving Regular Data Protection Training? Are They AI Literate?
Mary Costigan of JacksonLewis writes: Employee security awareness training is a best practice and a “reasonable safeguard” for protecting the privacy and security of an organization’s sensitive data. The list of data privacy and cybersecurity laws mandating employee data protection training continues to grow and now includes the EU AI Act. The following list is…
Data Broker Privacy Compliance: Our Top 5 List
Kenny Gutierrez and John Pavolotsky of Stoel Rives LLP write: With the current patchwork of data privacy laws, compliance can be challenging for any business. The compliance landscape may be even more fraught with risk for data brokers, given various data broker registration requirements, the panoply of general state privacy laws, and the specter of…