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California Privacy Update: What We Heard at Friday’s CCPA Hearing

As we noted previously, the California Attorney General is holding a series of public forums on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to provide the public with an initial opportunity to comment on CCPA…

C’est la vie? French Regulator Fines Google Nearly $57 million for GDPR Non-compliance

On Monday, France’s Data Protection Agency announced that it levied a €50 million ($56.8 million) fine against Google for violating the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The precedent-setting fine by…

Massachusetts Imposes Additional Data Breach Notification Requirements

On January 10, 2019, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed into law the Massachusetts’s Data Breach Notification Act, which amends Massachusetts data breach reporting laws. The new law, available here, amends…

Multistate Settles with Neiman Marcus Over 2013 Data Breach

43 State Attorneys General and the District of Columbia announced yesterday a settlement with Neiman Marcus Group LLC resolving the states’ investigation into the company’s 2013 data breach and its security…

California Privacy Update: Attorney General Seeks Comments and Announces Public Forum on CCPA

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced yesterday that the California Department of Justice will hold a series of six public forums on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The hearings will take…