With the enactment of the Colorado Privacy Act, Colorado now joins Virginia in transforming the first major state privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, from an outlier into what now appears to be the beginning of an inevitable trend.
At long last, the European Commission, on June 4, 2021, adopted new Standard Contractual Clauses (“new SCCs”) to permit lawful transfers of personal data from the European Union (EU) to third countries such as the United States.
A little over six months after the Brazilian Data Protection Law (LGPD) became effective, there seems to be real progress in its implementation. The LGPD is an all-encompassing data protection law similar to the European Union’s GDPR.
Canada’s federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry has introduced Bill C-11, which seeks to reform federal private sector privacy legislation.
In the first case of its kind, the High Court of England & Wales has considered the limits on the extraterritorial reach of the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
A primary goal of this Report is to highlight the myriad and overlapping labor and employment issues that arise as the workplace transforms, and the imperative that successful solutions will require significant cross-disciplinary collaboration.
The Illinois General Assembly is currently considering House Bill 559, which seeks to materially revise BIPA’s rigid compliance obligations and limit an individual’s ability to file a class action lawsuit against a non-compliant entity.
Littler’s latest survey of more than 1,800 in-house counsel, HR professionals and C-suite executives finds most employers unlikely to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for a variety of reasons.
