Tag: Privacy
Navigating Privacy and Cybersecurity Challenges in the Automotive and Mobility Sector
In this first installment of our series on the automotive and mobility sector, Cooley cyber/data/privacy lawyers introduce the key data privacy legal issues facing the automotive and mobility sector and provide an overview of the US state and federal regulatory enforcement environment. US Regulators Target Automotive Sector The wave of […]
Balancing Act: Navigating Privacy Challenges Under UK’s Online Safety Act 2023
The UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) 2023, which became law on 26 October 2023, imposes extensive new obligations on certain types of online service providers, requiring them to protect their users by identifying, mitigating, and managing risks relating to illegal and harmful content. Due to its extraterritorial reach, the OSA […]
CFPB Announces Plans to Extend FCRA to Data Brokers through Rulemaking
At an August 15, 2023, White House roundtable, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra announced plans to issue rules that would extend the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to certain “data broker practices.” This announcement and a concurrently issued fact sheet come on the heels of a March […]
California Supreme Court Boosts Policyholders Seeking Coverage for Privacy Class Actions
Key takeaways In a recent opinion, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of California-based tech giant Yahoo in a multiyear legal battle with the National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The insurer had refused to defend Yahoo against five class action lawsuits alleging Yahoo violated provisions of […]
California Legislature Passes Children’s Privacy Bills
Update: Governor Newsom signed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act into law on September 14, 2022 and signed the Student Test Taker Privacy Protection Act into law on September 28, 2022. California’s legislature adjourned for the year on August 31, 2022, after passing two notable children’s privacy bills: the California […]
US Legislative Developments in Children’s Privacy
“It’s time to strengthen privacy protections, ban targeted advertising to children, [and] demand tech companies stop collecting personal data on our children.” – President Joe Biden, State of the Union, March 1, 2022 On May 19, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission publicly renewed its focus on children’s privacy . In […]
‘Inbox Advertising’: Direct Marketing Rules Apply to Ads in Email Inboxes
On November 25, 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held in the case C-102/20 that the display of advertising messages in a form similar to an actual email among others in an inbox constitutes an electronic mail for direct marketing purposes. Hence, rules on direct marketing […]
US Guidance on Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information to Combat COVID-19
Companies are working hard to balance the privacy of their employees and the need to keep employees informed and safe. Many have encouraged employees and visitors to report if they experience COVID-19 symptoms or have otherwise been exposed to the virus through travel or their communities. They have collected this […]
Brazil’s New Data Protection Law: The LGPD
Updated September 3, 2019 Our post on key updates to the LGPD can be found here The global data protection landscape continues to evolve, and Brazil is the latest country to enact an omnibus law governing how organizations collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal data. Beginning on August 16, […]