A year ago, we wrote about Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. A year later, little has come to fruition as under-resourced European regulators are still struggling to comprehensively define their mission as they simultaneously attempt to pursue investigations they know will end up in front of the courts.
Email Laws – A Summary of Legislation in the United States and Canada
California Dreaming of Privacy
California has long been a leader in privacy protections. The state legislature began paving the way with their 2002 data security breach notification law and followed that with the 2004 law addressing privacy policies. Their latest effort is the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) that was signed into law on June 28, 2018, and will take effect January 1, 2020.