- at least 100,000 consumers;
Tennessee Enacts Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Bill
On May 11, 2023, Tennessee’s Governor signed Senate Bill 0073, the Tennessee Information Protection Act, making the state the eighth state to pass consumer privacy legislation. Tennessee joins California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Utah, and Virginia which have previously passed consumer privacy statutes.
Tennessee’s law will take…
California Adopts Law that Seeks to Protect Children’s Online Privacy
California’s Governor signed Assembly Bill (AB) 2273, the first of its kind state legislation that requires businesses that provide online services, products, or features likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified standards.
Building on federal protections for children online under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), AB 2273 enacts the…
California Governor Newsom Signs into Law Extension to CCPA Employee Personal Information Exemption, Vetoes Another Privacy Bill
On September 29th, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 1281, an amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) that would extend the current exemption on employee personal information from most of the CCPA’s protections, until January 1 2022. The exemption on employee personal information was slated to sunset on December…
New Jersey Settles Alleged COPPA Violation
In a recent consent order, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs settled an investigation involving Dokogeo, Inc., a California based mobile application developer.
Under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) websites and online services which collect information from children younger than 13 are subject to certain parental notice and consent requirements.
In…
How Do I Track Thee? Let Me Count The Ways.
California law soon may require commercial websites that collect personal data to disclose how they respond to “Do Not Track” signals from Web browsers. AB 370, an amendment to the California Online Privacy Protection Act (Act), which was sponsored by Attorney General Kamala Harris, passed the California Senate and Assembly at the end of…