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Jan 17, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Lucas Schaetzel |Michael Stovsky
The Net Neutrality rules were introduced and implemented in 2015 and were designed to ensure that Internet service providers acted as neutral gateways and promoted a more open Internet. The 2015 Net Neutrality rules required Internet service providers to treat all Internet traffic equally—in terms of pricing, bandwidth, availability, etc. However, in 2017, under a new administration, the FCC voted to repeal and roll back the 2015 Net Neutrality rules.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Lucas Schaetzel
On August 2, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill amending the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). The amendments address what many businesses viewed as excessively harsh financial penalties wrought by previous court precedent. Under recent Illinois court precedent, a business was viewed to have violated the act each time a biometric information data point was collected.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Lucas Schaetzel
The Colorado state legislature recently passed an amendment to the Colorado Privacy Act. The Colorado Privacy Act previously established the third broad data protection law in the U.S., after California and Virginia.
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May 14, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Megan Parker |Lucas Schaetzel
Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) recently introduced the bipartisan Secure Artificial Intelligence Act of 2024 (the “Bill”) aimed at improving the tracking and processing of security and safety incidents and risks associated with artificial intelligence (“AI”).
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May 8, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Lucas Schaetzel
Florida, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas will join the ranks of the existing five U.S. state data protection laws that are in effect. Between 2025 and 2026, an additional eight U.S. states will have their data protection laws take effect as well, for a grant total of 17 effective state data protection laws.
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May 3, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Lucas Schaetzel
May 3, 2024
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Like Texas’s data protection law, Nebraska’s does not contain a minimum revenue threshold or a minimum number of consumers whose personal data needs to be processed prior to the law applying.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Lucas Schaetzel
Last year proved to be a huge year in U.S. state data protection law, ending with 13 U.S. states with comprehensive data protection laws on the books. And 2024 shows no sign of stopping or slowing that trend. New Hampshire and New Jersey became the first two states in 2024 to pass omnibus data protection laws. Kentucky now joins the exponentially growing ranks of U.S. states with omnibus data protection laws in place, which a handful of other states poised to quickly add to the list as well.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Lucas Schaetzel
The days of minimal enforcement action under U.S. state data protection laws may soon be over. And the California Privacy Protection Agency’s (the “CPPA”) first enforcement advisory—Applying Data Minimization to Consumer Requests—may be a harbinger for things to come.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Lucas Schaetzel
Over the weekend, House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) unveiled the American Privacy Rights Act (the “APRA”). The development is a surprise in light of the upcoming election cycle and past, failed attempts by members of congress to put forth a national, omnibus data protection law.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Lucas Schaetzel
March 31, 2024 saw two US state consumer health data protection laws take effect. Nevada’s consumer health data law is one of them. For our coverage of Washington’s My Health My Data Act, which is also in effect, please see our previous coverage here. The consumer health data specific bills are unlike recent omnibus US state data protection laws, which broadly regulate the collection and processing of any type of personal data.
