Month: April 2025
Virginia Enacts New Broad Consent Requirement for Collection of Reproductive and Sexual Health Information
On March 24, 2025, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed into law SB 754, amending the state’s Consumer Protection Act to prohibit businesses from “[o]btaining, disclosing, selling, or disseminating any personally identifiable reproductive or sexual health information without the consent of the consumer.” The amendment, which takes effect on July 1, […]
UK Data Privacy Litigation: What’s New?
In honour of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) London 2025 conference , we hosted a webinar on European privacy litigation. This post summarises some of the key UK privacy cases we covered in that webinar. Over the past six months, the UK High Court has handed down a number of decisions with important implications for businesses, data controllers and individuals.
The DOJ’s Bulk Sensitive Personal Data Rule’s Imminent Relevance to Life Sciences Companies
A new US Department of Justice (DOJ) rule on “Preventing Access to US Sensitive Personal Data and Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern (including China) or Covered Persons” (rule) prohibits and restricts certain covered data transactions that result in the transfer or access to bulk US sensitive personal data by […]