Data Privacy Laws

On the heels of the California Attorney General’s largest California Consumer Privacy Act-related settlement yet, the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General has announced its first public enforcement action under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA).
Continue Reading Connecticut AG Fines Ticket Marketplace in State’s First CTDPA Privacy Law Enforcement Action

The UK’s Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (the Act) officially came into law on June 19. The Act seeks to modernize the UK’s data protection and e-privacy regimes.

Continue Reading UK Data (Access and Use) Act 2025: Key Changes Seek to Streamline Privacy Compliance

Greenberg Traurig Shareholders Chris Dodrill and Mikaela Shaw Masoudpour will present the CLE webinar, “Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) Essentials: Compliance Strategies and Litigation Insights,” on Wednesday, April 23 at 1:00 p.m. EDT.
Continue Reading April 23 EVENT | Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) Essentials: Compliance Strategies and Litigation Insights

  1. Full Steam Ahead: The European Union’s (EU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act in Action — As the EU’s landmark AI Act officially takes effect, 2025 will be a year of implementation challenges and enforcement. Companies deploying AI across the EU will likely navigate strict rules on data usage, transparency, and risk management, especially for high-risk AI

GT Shareholder Darren Abernethy is featured on an episode of The Privacy Advisor Podcast, hosted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). 

Amid the rapidly evolving landscape of U.S. state privacy laws, Darren discusses privacy litigation trends, shedding light on novel theories emerging from the plaintiff’s bar including issues related to pen registers, chatbots

The risks associated with data collection and processing are at an all-time high. Data protection is a high-stakes game that is difficult to track since there is no universal legal requirement to disclose information related to data breaches. Newly released research from IBM shows that the average global cost of a single data breach in

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Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the use of computer science to create models for the performance of functions generally associated with human intelligence.[1] It is possible for data privacy laws to be implicated either during the development of an AI or as part of its use.

As part of developing an artificial intelligence

On Feb. 22, 2023, Greenberg Traurig hosted Israeli privacy lawyers for a Roundtable discussion at the firm’s Tel Aviv office. Berlin Local Partner Carsten Kociok presented updates about the GDPR during the informative session, which offered an in-depth look at trends in European data privacy as well as practical takeaways for Israeli attorneys, followed by

Some modern data privacy statutes require organizations to consider and document privacy-related risks regarding certain types of processing activities. These assessments are sometimes referred to as “data protection assessments” or “data protection impact assessments” (generically a DPIA). DPIAs are intended to make an organization identify and weigh the benefits that may flow from processing personal