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One-Month Countdown to Pass CCPA Amendments Begins

Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightOn August 12, the California legislature returns after its summer recess. Starting with the Senate Appropriations Committee Hearing today, the legislature will now have approximately a month to continue the markups and send California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) amendments to the Governor’s desk for signature before the September 13 deadline.  As previously reported, any amendment … Continue reading

Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds common law duty for employers extends to protecting sensitive employee information

Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightOn November 21, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court broke new ground by holding that employers have a legal duty to take reasonable care to safeguard its employees’ sensitive personal information from cyberattacks. … Continue reading

CCPA extends “right to deletion” to California residents

Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightThis is the Data Protection Report’s fifth post in a series of CCPA blog posts that will break down the major elements of the CCPA, which will culminate in a webinar on the CCPA in October. This blog focuses on covered entities. Stay tuned for additional blogs and information about our upcoming webinar on the … Continue reading

California Consumer Privacy Act blog series: Covered entities

Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightThis is the Data Protection Report’s second post in a series of blog posts that will break down the major elements of the CCPA which will culminate in a webinar on the CCPA in October. This blog focuses on covered entities. Stay tuned for additional posts and information about our upcoming webinar on the CCPA. … Continue reading

German DPAs publish templates and guidance on records of processing activities pursuant to Art. 30 GDPR

Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightThe German Data Protection Authorities (DPAs, acting as the German Data Privacy Conference, Konferenz der unabhängigen Datenschutzbehörden des Bundes und der Länder) recently published templates for the records of processing activities for controllers (Art. 30 para. 1 GDPR) and processors (Art. 30 para. 2 GDPR) together with a corresponding guidance document. This guidance was expected to be released earlier … Continue reading

Russia’s data localization requirements delayed for Facebook, Google and Twitter

Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightThe Russian data protection authority, Roscomnadzor, has given major U.S. technology companies extra time to comply with the Russian data localization law. The law, which went into effect on September 1, 2015, requires companies to store and process all personal data of Russian citizens using databases located in Russia.  The law imposes a variety of penalties … Continue reading
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