In first-of-its-kind legislation, under SB 54, California will require venture capital companies to collect and report diversity data from portfolio company founders as soon as 1 March 2025. The new Fair Investment Practices by Investment Advisers law intends to increase transparency regarding the diversity of founding teams receiving venture funds from covered entities in California.
On 8 October 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law amending the California Consumer Privacy Act. AB 947 classifies citizenship and immigration status as “sensitive personal information” subject to special protections under the CCPA, while AB 1194 strengthens reproductive privacy rights. Both bills carried the unanimous endorsement of the California Privacy Protection Agency. Details for each bill are described below followed by actionable guidance businesses can take to prepare now before these laws go into effect on 1 January 2024.
If you are a data broker or a business that relies on data brokers for targeted advertising, you should be aware that the California Data Broker Law will be significantly changed under the California Delete Act, which was signed into law by California Governor Newsom on 10 October 2023. Under the act, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is required to set up, by 1 January 2026, an accessible deletion mechanism where consumers can request deletion via the CPPA that all data brokers then have to honor.
According to Article 40.1 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the national supervisory authorities in the European Economic Area shall “encourage the drawing up of codes of conduct intended to contribute to the proper application” of the GDPR. A prerequisite for codes of conduct to be prepared by Swedish associations and bodies, which represent categories of personal data controllers or processors, is that the Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY), pursuant to Art. 41 GDPR, has to establish the requirements that will apply to their accreditation bodies, the so-called supervisory bodies, which will be responsible in monitoring compliance with the code of conduct by the controllers or processors that undertake to apply it.
Following a five-year legislative process, India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP) received presidential assent on 11 August 2023. Practically speaking, the DPDP is not yet enforceable as the government still needs to establish the Data Protection Board of India (Board), which will serve as the enforcement authority for the law. The Board, in turn, must implement certain legally binding rules before the DPDP becomes fully operational.
Beyond the statutory text of the new Washington state My Health My Data Act, the Washington Attorney General has published Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and will update such FAQs periodically. Some of the FAQs provide insight into possible interpretations of the law’s provisions that are summarized in this article.
Through The Employer Report blog, our lawyers provide legal updates and practical insights to help clients understand, prepare for and respond to the latest domestic and cross-border Labor and Employment issues affecting US and multinational employers.
If you are a data broker or a business that relies on data brokers for targeted advertising, you should be aware that the California Data Broker Law may be significantly changed under a proposed bill. Under Senate Bill 362, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) would be required to set up, by 1 January 2026, an accessible deletion mechanism where consumers could request deletion via the CPPA that all data brokers then have to honor. Data brokers would have to check the CPPA mechanism to process all deletion requests every 31 days, as well as delete personal information about every California resident who ever made a request through the mechanism every 31 days.
Just a few weeks after California Attorney General Bonta announced an investigative sweep through inquiry letters sent to California employers, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) review of data privacy practices by connected vehicle manufacturers and related technologies, focusing on embedded features including “location sharing, web-based entertainment, smartphone integration, and cameras,” because “vehicles often automatically gather consumers’ locations, personal preferences, and details about their daily lives.”
Just a few weeks after California Attorney General Bonta announced an investigative sweep through inquiry letters sent to California employers, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced a California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) review of data privacy practices by connected vehicle manufacturers and related technologies, focusing on embedded features including “location sharing, web-based entertainment, smartphone integration, and cameras,” because “vehicles often automatically gather consumers’ locations, personal preferences, and details about their daily lives.”