On April 4, 2024, the CFPB issued a report titled “Banking in Video Games and Virtual Worlds” that examines the financial and privacy risks to consumers in online video gaming marketplaces.
The CFPB’s report explains that gaming platforms facilitate the storage and exchange of valuable assets while collecting large amounts of data from their users.
Some 18 months on from the failed American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), there is another proposed federal privacy law. House and Senate committee leads released a new proposal for the bipartisan American Privacy Records Act (APRA) on April 7. There is a lot of discussion around this bill, which is subject to change
Greenberg Traurig is a sponsor of ALM’s General Counsel Conference Midwest taking place April 16-17, 2024, at the Swissotel in Chicago. The conference will offer key insights and practical strategies that today’s general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, handle a litigation crisis, and do more with fewer resources.
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On April 2, 2024, Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Ian C. Ballon, co-chair of the Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice, will lead the workshop, “The Changing Nature of State Court Data Privacy Litigation and Mass Arbitration.” The session will analyze the nature of state claims, how to mitigate the substantive risks of litigation
Greenberg Traurig Data Privacy & Cybersecurity attorneys Tyler Thompson and Talia Boiangin will present the CLE webinar, “Privacy Program Management: How to Actually “DO” Privacy: Implementing a Practical Privacy Compliance Program at Any Company,” on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
The companies with the most successful privacy compliance programs are not the ones with the
In a potentially significant development for companies subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (CCPA), on Feb. 9, California’s Third District Court of Appeal overturned a Superior Court decision issued in June 2023 that had stayed the enforcement of new CCPA regulations finalized by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), first-in-the-nation privacy regulator
Greenberg Traurig Data Privacy & Cybersecurity attorneys Gretchen Ramos, Darren Abernethy, and Zachary Schapiro will present the CLE webinar, “U.S. Consumer Health Data Privacy Laws in 2024: Washington’s My Health My Data Act and Related State and Federal Developments,” Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. State legislatures and the Federal Trade Commission have begun
On Dec. 26, 2023, DoD published a proposed rule implementing the CMMC Program (the Proposed Rule). The regulations come more than three years after the release of the initial CMMC regulations (November 2020) and two years after the Biden administration announced the revised “CMMC 2.0” program (January 2021). The Proposed Rule largely reflects the CMMC
The risks associated with data collection and processing are at an all-time high. Data protection is a high-stakes game that is difficult to track since there is no universal legal requirement to disclose information related to data breaches. Newly released research from IBM shows that the average global cost of a single data breach in
In conjunction with Minnesota CLE’s 2023 Midwest IP Institute, Greenberg Traurig Shareholders David Zetoony and Steve Baird will present the webinar “Demystifying AdTech – How to Stay Compliant with Ever Changing Privacy Laws and Technology Limitations” Tuesday, Nov. 28 at 2:00 p.m. CST. AdTech, or Advertising Technology, encompasses all the technologies associated