Data protection authorities worldwide, including France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the California attorney general (CAG), and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), recently have indicated their intention to increase privacy enforcement efforts against mobile apps. As the digital landscape continues to evolve, data protection and privacy concerns remain
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
In order to help businesses understand and benchmark industry practice, Greenberg Traurig attorneys analyzed the publicly available privacy policies of companies within the Fortune 500.[1] As of October 2022 – nearly two years after the CCPA took effect – 71% of companies had updated their privacy policies to account for the CCPA.[2] It
One of the provisions in the ISO 29100 privacy framework is that the top management of an organization should “establish a privacy policy” that, among other things:
The privacy policy envisioned under
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In order to help businesses, understand and benchmark industry practice, Greenberg Traurig LLP analyzed the privacy policies of companies within the Fortune 500. As of December 2020, there was significant divergence between the rates at which companies in different industry sectors had updated their privacy policies to account for the CCPA. While all of
In order to help businesses understand and benchmark industry practice, Greenberg Traurig, LLP analyzed the privacy policies of companies within the Fortune 500. As of December 2020 – 12 months after the CCPA had gone into effect and six months after the CCPA became enforceable – 71.8% of the companies within the Fortune 500 had
The CCPA requires that a business include 15 specific disclosures in its privacy policy. These include, for example, disclosures relating to the enumerated categories of personal information that the business collects, the categories of personal information that are shared with service providers or other third parties, and consumers’ ability to request access to and deletion
The regulations implementing the CCPA require that “[e]very business . . . shall provide a privacy policy in accordance with the CCPA and the [regulations].”1 The regulations clarify that a business meets its obligation to “provide” a privacy policy by posting the policy online or, if it does not operate a website, “mak[ing] the
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A privacy policy typically discloses the following information to the public: