Greenberg Traurig Shareholders Breton H. Permesly and Tyler J. Thompson will present the CLE webinar, “Personal Information in the Franchise Relationship,” on Wednesday, June 28 at 12:30 pm EDT. As privacy laws proliferate around the world while the value of customer personal information simultaneously increases, data has never been riskier or had
All modern privacy statutes regulate when personal information can be shared with third parties, whether those third parties are service providers, vendors, contractors, or business partners. Most modern privacy statutes recognize, however, that privacy risks are reduced when the third party is related to the organization from which the data originates. As the following chart
In September 2021, Quebec’s Parliament updated its data privacy regime by passing the Act to Modernize Legislative Provisions as Regards the Protection of Personal Information, 2021 (“Law 25”). It is critical to determine whether an organization is subject to Law 25, as there are potential fines of up to 4% of an organization’s worldwide turnover.
Most of the modern state data privacy laws have attempted to exclude from their jurisdictional reach organizations that process de minimis amounts of personal information. The state statutes create different thresholds for what constitute de minimis processing base those thresholds largely on whether the organization sells personal information. The net result is that most states
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
Three modern privacy statutes incorporate the concept that individuals should be able to broadcast a signal from their browser or device that directs an organization to cease providing their personal information to third parties for the purposes of targeted advertising.
The regulations implementing the CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, require organizations to process “opt-out
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.
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A review of the Fortune 500 conducted approximately one year after the CCPA went into effect showed that 21 percent of websites included a “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link; 78.6 percent of websites did not include a link to opt out of the sale of personal information.[1] Over the past year, that
A “cookie banner” refers to a pop-up notice on a website that discusses the site’s use of cookies. There is little standardization concerning how cookie banners are deployed. For example, websites can position them in different places on the screen (e.g., across the top of the screen, across the bottom of the screen, in a
The CCPA requires businesses that sell personal information to explain that consumers have a right to opt-out of the sale[1] and provide a clear and conspicuous link on their homepage titled “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” that takes the consumer to a mechanism that permits them to exercise their opt-out right.[2] If