With the Governor of Louisiana’s signature on Senate Bill 386, Louisiana becomes one of the latest states to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law, joining more than twenty states that have adopted similar frameworks in recent years. Like laws in Texas, Virginia, Colorado, and other states, the Louisiana Data Privacy Act (LDPA) adopts a
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Louisiana Updates its Data Breach Notification Law
And now it’s Louisiana’s turn! After several states recently enacted or strengthened existing data breach notification laws (Colorado, Arizona, South Dakota and Alabama just to name a few…), on May 20th , Louisiana Governor John Edwards signed an amendment to the state’s Database Security Breach Notification Law (Act 382)…
Louisiana Follows Wisconsin and Tennessee in Protecting Employee and Student Personal Online Account Access Information
Following the enactment of similar laws in Wisconsin and Tennessee earlier this year, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed HB 340, the Personal Online Account Privacy Protection Act, into law prohibiting employers and schools in Louisiana from demanding access to personal email, social media and other types of online accounts. The Act applies to…