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Hunton Privacy Chair Lisa Sotto and MLaw Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent Mike Swift led a webinar on Everything You Need to Know About the California Privacy Rights Act. This post includes a link to watch the full program.…
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On April 1, 2021, California’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state’s prohibition on recording calls without consent applies to parties on the call and not just third-party eavesdroppers. Writing for the Court, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye wrote that California’s penal code “prohibits parties as well as nonparties from intentionally recording a communication transmitted between a cellular or cordless phone and another device without the consent of all parties to the communication.”…
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The California Attorney General has approved additional CCPA Regulations that impact certain sections of the initial CCPA Regulations that went into effect on August 14, 2020. These amendments, which were the subject of the third and fourth sets of proposed modifications, went into effect on March 15, 2021.…
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The New York Department of Financial Services, which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No. 2 (2021) regarding “Cyber Insurance Risk Framework”, calling on insurers to take more stringent measures in underwriting cyber risks. In the Guidelines, NYDFS cites the 2020 SolarWinds attack as an example of how managing growing cyber risk is “an urgent challenge for insurers.”…
Continue Reading New York Regulators Call on Insurers to Strengthen the Cyber Underwriting Process

The New York Department of Financial Services has issued a Cyber Fraud Alert to regulated entities in light of a growing campaign to steal Nonpublic Information, as defined under New York law, from public-facing websites that provide instant quotes for products like auto insurance.…
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As we previously reported, significant data privacy bills, titled the Consumer Data Protection Act, are working their way through the Virginia legislature. If enacted, Virginia would be the second state to enact major data privacy legislation of general applicability. …
Continue Reading Virginia Moves Closer to Be the Second State to Enact Major Privacy Legislation