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Biden’s Executive Order Links Data Collection to Competition

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President Joe Biden‘s push for Federal Trade Commission rules protecting consumer data privacy highlights ties between tech companies’ power and the personal information they collect. The commission laid the groundwork for launching a data privacy proposal when it recently streamlined its process for writing rules. tech giants.

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Colorado Latest State to Enact Privacy Law

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Colorado has become the third state in the country to enact a comprehensive privacy law, which follows the model set for by the laws in California and Virginia, while possessing its own quirks and nuances. The law is scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2023.

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3rd Circuit Ruling On Bar Codes Has Implications For Debt Collectors

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Robins which held that intangible harms, such as privacy harms, can be concrete. The court referenced its reasoning in DiNaples that “[t]he injury was concrete – and ‘closely related to’ common law privacy torts – because the QR code made protected information accessible to the public.”

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services COVID-19 Newsletter

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Activities. Privacy and Cybersecurity Activities: On July 7, The New York Times reported that amid the alarming spread of COVID-19’s Delta variant, New York City is “scaling back its efforts to monitor the spread of the coronavirus.” State Activities. Federal Activities: On July 9, the U.S.

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Lawmakers Aim to Limit Ransomware Response Options

Troutman Sanders

Organizations worldwide were busy this weekend after Keyasa, a software provider servicing more than 40,000 organizations, disclosed that it was the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack that is believed to have been orchestrated by REvil, a cybercriminal acting out of Russia.