Privacy law

Businesses operating in Vermont have roughly 18 months to prepare for one of the nation's most expansive state privacy laws, a statute that legal analysts say departs from the increasingly...

California’s dedicated privacy regulator is intensifying its campaign against federal legislation that could override the state’s landmark consumer privacy regime, setting up a new flashpoint in the broader battle between...

Alabama has become the latest state to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy regime, adding further complexity to an already fragmented U.S. regulatory landscape and raising new compliance imperatives for businesses...

A new audit of website behavior conducted by privacy research firm webXray is raising fresh questions about the effectiveness of California’s landmark data privacy regime, suggesting that noncompliance with key...

Denmark’s Data Protection Agency has received a complaint about Alphabet’s Google. A Danish consumer watchdog claims it is breaking privacy laws by not capping the amount of time personal data is stored on Google’s servers. As reported by the Reuters news agency, web companies such as Google and Facebook face increased scrutiny over how and […]