The Act represents an accelerating trend among US states to attempt to pass comprehensive privacy legislation in the wake of the CCPA. By Jennifer C. Archie, Michael H. Rubin, Marissa R. Boynton, and Alexander L. Stout On March 2, 2021, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed comprehensive state privacy legislation titled the Consumer Data Protection Act … Continue Reading
Latham lawyers explain who the DIFC’s new law applies to and how it maps against the GDPR. By Brian A. Meenagh, Fiona M. Maclean, Alexander Hendry, and Avinash Balendran The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) recently issued a new data protection law and regulations: the Data Protection Law DIFC Law No. 5 of 2020 and … Continue Reading
By Gail Crawford, Ulrich Wuermeling, Calum Docherty The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR or Regulation) will become applicable in one year, as of May 25, 2018. A lot has happened since we set out the key provisions of the Regulation last year. As companies implement compliance programmes in efforts to protect data subjects and avoid … Continue Reading
