A new Mississippi law, known as the Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act, has prompted several companies to block Mississippi IP addresses from accessing their platforms. In fact, social media company Bluesky posted a response to the enactment of the law on its website. Bluesky explained the decision to make their app unavailable to Mississippi
July 1 marked the official enforcement date of the Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA), the state’s comprehensive consumer privacy law. Signed into law in 2023, TIPA grants consumers specific rights concerning their personal information and regulates covered businesses and service providers that collect, use, share, or otherwise process consumers’ personal information. With all TIPA
In this week’s installment of our blog series on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) HIPAA Security Rule updates in its January 6 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), we are exploring the proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule’s administrative safeguards requirement (45 C.F.R. § 164.308). Last week’s post on the updated
In this installment of our blog series on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) HIPAA Security Rule updates in its January 6 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), we will explore the impact the NPRM
The final text of the amended Negative Option Rule, featuring the new “Click to Cancel” program, goes into effect this week on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, and should become enforceable approximately four months later on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. The FTC believes that this rule will help the FTC get money back