The last remaining provisions of the amendments to the New York Department of Financial Services’ (DFS) cybersecurity regulation called Part 500 came into effect Nov. 1, 2025.
Continue Reading NYDFS Final Cybersecurity Rules – MFA, Asset Inventory, and Third-Party Risk
On July 1, 2025, the California attorney general (AG) announced a $1.55 million settlement (pending court approval) with Healthline Media, LLC (Healthline), who publishes Healthline.com, a health information website. This settlement marks the regulator’s continued focus on online tracking technologies for targeted advertising and the effectiveness of consumer opt-out systems.
Continue Reading California CCPA Settlement: Health Website Penalized for Tracking Non-Compliance
Regulatory authorities globally are prioritizing data deletion rights, including legislation like California’s Delete Act and enforcement actions in Europe and Oregon. Businesses should consider enhancing their mechanisms for handling deletion requests to ensure compliance and build consumer trust.
Continue Reading Enforcement Update: Regulatory Attention Focused on Deletion Requests
On May 16, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission finalized amendments to Regulation S-P (the Amendments) that largely adopt the proposed amendments the SEC issued in 2023. As discussed in further detail below, the Amendments will require broker-dealers, investment companies, SEC-registered investment advisers, funding portals, and transfer agents registered with the SEC or other
On Oct. 19, 2023, the CFPB released a proposed rule that, if finalized in its present form, would require covered financial institutions to provide consumers and authorized third parties with access and portability options for their financial data. The CFPB’s proposed rule, called the “Personal Financial Data Rights” rule, would implement Section 1033 of Title
Not necessarily.
Under the GDPR, controllers are required to provide information relating to what personal data they process, and how that processing takes place.
If the personal data the organization includes in AI prompts has been collected directly from individuals, those individuals should be provided with a copy of the organization’s privacy notice “at the
Under the GDPR, controllers are required to provide individuals with information relating to what personal data is processed, and how that processing takes place. Some supervisory authorities have specifically taken the position that organizations which use personal data to train an artificial intelligence (AI) must draft and publish a privacy notice that provides “data subjects
Most modern U.S. state data privacy laws exempt from their definition of personal information “publicly available information.” What constitutes publicly available information differs between state privacy laws and may not correlate to the lay definition understood by many businesses and individuals. For example, while some businesses may consider information that is available on the internet
As of now, 12 states (CA, CO, CT, DE, IA, IN, MT, OR, TN, TX, UT, and VA) have passed comprehensive privacy laws that are in effect (CA, CT, CO, and VA), or are about to go into effect sometime soon (DE, IA, IN, MT, OR, TN, TX, and UT). If any of these laws