Brazil’s Data Protection Agency clarifies what sanctions look like for violations of the country’s General Data Protection Law.[1]

On Feb. 27, 2023, Brazil’s Data Protection Agency (ANPD) issued the Regulation of Dosimetry and Application of Administrative Sanction (Regulation), which details fines and other sanctions for violations of Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD) by

The CCPA states that a service provider must be contractually prohibited from “retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information [provided to it by a business] for any purpose other than for the business purposes specified in the contract for the business . . . .”[1] That prohibition, however, may not apply to information once

Greenberg Traurig Shareholders Jena M. Valdetero, David A. Zetoony, and Diane D. Reynolds presented the Thomson Reuters West LegalEdcenter and Celesq webinar, “Litigation and International Data Privacy: Is a Company Permitted To Transfer Personal Data From Europe to the US in Litigation?” Thursday, Feb. 23 at 12:00 pm EST. The webinar

Bill 25 Requires Immediate Action and a Compliance Plan for This Year

In September 2021, Quebec’s Parliament enacted Law 25 (formerly Bill 64) (the “Law”), which updated Quebec’s data protection laws and added requirements for enterprises that do business within the province. Specifically, as of September 2022 companies should have 1) appointed a data protection

Given recent Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights guidance, HIPAA-regulated entities should consider immediately taking the steps discussed in this GT blog post to reduce the risk associated with their use of tracking technologies.
Continue Reading Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies May Violate HIPAA

Modern data privacy statutes require that organizations inform individuals about the organization’s privacy practices by creating a privacy notice (sometimes referred to as a privacy policy or a notice at collection). Some data privacy statutes provide specific directions regarding how the privacy notice must be distributed. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act and the

All contracts that used the traditional Standard Contractual Clauses must be updated and repapered by 27 December 2022. To help companies comply with the deadline, Greenberg Traurig’s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Group has compiled a 90-page guide explaining how to apply the new Standard Contractual Clauses in over 40 different transfer scenarios – ranging from