On February 8, 2021, the New York Privacy Act (the “Act” or “NY Privacy Act”) was approved by the New York Senate Consumer Protection Committee. A similar bill was also introduced before the New York State Assembly. The Act, introduced by Senator Kevin Thomas in May 2021, aims to “strengthen consumer privacy rights by requiring companies to disclose their […]
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Consumer inboxes have been flooded lately with privacy policy update notices. This is, in large measure, the result of the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) that was implemented by the European Union (“EU”). The GDPR went into effect on May 25, 2018. Any person or entity, that holds or uses the personal data of EU residents,
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October 4, 2019 On October 1, 2019, the Court of Justice for the European Union (“CJEU”) issued an important opinion regarding the scope of consent in the context of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Specifically, the Court determined that a company cannot validly obtain a user’s consent to install cookies on his/her computer device
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November 28, 2018 On November 23, 2018, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted new draft guidelines intended to provide clarity with respect to the territorial scope of the Europe Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The highly-anticipated GDPR guidelines provide needed clarification on several key issues, including how the GDPR will be applied to
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October 15, 2018 On June 28, 2018, California passed the most comprehensive and consumer-friendly privacy law in the United States: the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). In many respects, the framework of the CCPA is similar to the Europe Union’s recently enacted General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). While many businesses took measures to comply with
June 21, 2018 On May 25, 2018, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) went into effect to provide a set of standardized data protection laws across all of the European member countries. That same day, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) filed an injunction against EPAG Domaineservices GmbH (“EPAG”), a Tucows-owned registrar
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May 31, 2018 On May 25, 2018, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) went into effect with the aim of standardizing data protection laws for businesses that, among other things, collect, retain and/or use the personal data of European Union (“EU”) residents. Businesses across the world are trying to determine what impact the GDPR data
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April 17, 2018 On May 25, 2018, a new data protection regulation entitled General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), Regulation (EU) 2016/689, will come into force in the European Union (“EU”) and its 28 Member States. The GDPR provides significant new data privacy protections for individuals (“data subjects”), with corresponding requirements that must be implemented by
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