In a potentially significant development for companies subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (CCPA), on Feb. 9, California’s Third District Court of Appeal overturned a Superior Court decision issued in June 2023 that had stayed the enforcement of new CCPA regulations finalized by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), first-in-the-nation privacy regulator

Greenberg Traurig is a sponsor of the 2023 Privacy + Security Forum Fall Academy at the George Washington University Nov. 8-10, 2023. The conference will break down the silos of privacy and security and bring together seasoned thought leaders for in-depth sessions and workshops designed to deliver practical takeaways for conference participants.

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On Aug. 9, 2023, a tutoring company agreed to pay $365,000 to settle an artificial intelligence (AI) lawsuit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The settlement comes on the heels of multiple EEOC warnings to employers about potential discrimination associated with the use of AI for hiring and workplace decisions.

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On July 26, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted the long-awaited final rule requiring that public companies disclose information about cybersecurity incidents within four business days of determining the incident is material. GT wrote about the proposed rule shortly after it was released in March 2022. For context, Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw noted, in

On April 27, 2023, Washington enacted the “My Health My Data Act” (WMHMDA or the Act). Unlike other modern state privacy laws that purport to regulate any collection of “personal data,” WMHMDA confers privacy protections only upon “Consumer Health Data.” While the Act was promoted as a measure to help protect reproductive and gender affirming

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

Rebekah S. Guyon, a shareholder in GT’s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, is quoted in a Corporate Counsel article titled “Big-Dollar Biometric Settlements Emboldening Plaintiffs Attorneys to Bring More Cases.”

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GT Shareholders Ian C. Ballon and Jena M. Valdetero will present at PLI’s Advanced Data Privacy, Cybersecurity and TCPA Class Action Litigation 2023 event Jan. 26, 2023. The program will cover forensic tutorial guides; major new cases and trends from the past year in the law of data privacy and security breach; the latest

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as state procedural rules, permit parties to a lawsuit to conduct discovery, in search of information and documents that may be relevant to the litigation. Parties can issue requests for documents, information (called interrogatories), and admissions of fact to other parties to the lawsuit; parties may use

Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Ian C. Ballon, Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice, will present the Strafford webinar “Mitigating Cybersecurity Class Action Litigation Risks: Policies, Procedures, Service Providers, Notification, Damages” on Thursday, Nov. 10, 1:00-2:30 p.m. EST.

The panel will discuss how businesses can implement policies, procedures, and