Recently, four U.S. Senators introduced the COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act to provide “transparency, choice, and control” over the collection and use of American’s data. Without a nationwide federal privacy law, companies have been left to speculate how to handle…
Federal Law
The Consumer Rights Under the CCPA The CCPA guarantees a number of consumer rights, and businesses need to take steps to ensure compliance. Most of the rights are explicitly enumerated within the text of the CCPA. However, some are implicitly…
UPDATE: On November 18, 2021, the FDIC issued a new final rule (“The Computer-Security Incident Notification Final Rule”) altering the obligations discussed below. Notably, all financial institutions subject to OCC, FDIC or Federal Reserve jurisdiction must now notify their primary…
Unlike the European Union’s GDPR, there is no one overarching federal privacy protection law in the United States. Instead, there are numerous federal data privacy laws that target narrow and specific information. Most regulate data collection and misuse by the…