Privacy and Data Protection, a leading UK journal on practical data protection compliance issues, has featured in its latest edition an article by Robert Maddox and Stephanie Thomas on the…
We have written several times about the need for companies to reduce the amount of data that they collect and to get rid of old data. Data minimization lowers the…
On 23 February 2023, the UK ICO hosted its latest privacy forum in a series aimed at helping product designers and managers incorporate “privacy by design” or “data protection by…
On February 1, 2023, the Colorado Attorney General (“COAG”) held a public hearing as part of its rulemaking process for the Colorado Privacy Act (“ColoPA”). Ahead of the hearing, the…
The Data Strategy and Security team at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has authored the Practising Law Institute’s 2023 edition of the Privacy Law Answer Book, a user-friendly guide to the laws and…
2023 has arrived, and with it comes a novel patchwork of privacy requirements arising out of comprehensive state privacy laws that have been adopted (or amended) by legislatures in California,…
As we approach the end of the year, here are the Top 10 Privacy posts on the Debevoise Data Blog in 2022 by page views. If you are not already…
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (the “GDPR”) changed the global privacy landscape, and has been called the “gold standard” for data protection regulation. Recently, a number of U.S.…
On October 7, 2022, U.S. President Biden signed Executive Order 14086 on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities (the “Order”). The administrative Order creates new protections applicable to…
There has been significant regulatory attention recently to “dark patterns,” including FTC guidance, state privacy laws, and state and federal enforcement actions. Some of this activity involves new regulations, and…