Has it been a year already? Many businesses diligently made sure they did their best to hit the moving CCPA target as they welcomed 2020 and the effective date of the statute last year. A year ago, all we had were draft regulations and a statute, and businesses had to do their best to comply.

Steve Snyder
Steve Snyder combines his engineering education and prior industry experience in information technology with 15 years of practicing as an attorney on matters involving complex legal challenges arising from emerging technology for clients across the country and beyond. Steve is also a North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Privacy and Data Security Law. Steve is a thought leader in privacy and data security and routinely writes and speaks on CCPA and privacy topics. He advises on all aspects of clients’ privacy and data security programs and regularly works with technical, legal, and business stakeholders to mitigate security and privacy risk. He helps clients implement robust cybersecurity programs and has developed training and educational materials.
FTC Eyes Vendor Oversight in Safeguards Rule Settlement
On December 15, 2020, the FTC announced a proposed settlement with Ascension Data & Analytics, LLC, a mortgage industry analytics company, related to alleged violations of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act’s (GLBA) Safeguards Rule. In particular, the FTC claimed that Ascension Data & Analytics’ vendor, OpticsML, left “tens of thousands of consumers[’]” sensitive personal information exposed “to…
Introducing… the Global Privacy Control
One of the most reoccurring questions we’ve gotten from companies subject to CCPA that have a “Do Not Sell” link has been “What the heck do we do about this global privacy control?” Up until now, there wasn’t a clear, or even semi-helpful, answer to that question that didn’t involve a fair amount of guesswork.…
A New Privacy Headache: Virginia’s COVID-19 Workplace Safety Rule is Poised to Impact Privacy
On July 15, 2020, the state of Virginia adopted the first of its kind COVID-19 workplace safety mandate. Propelled by months of inaction from a federal agency tasked with nationwide enforcement of workplace safety relating to COVID-19, Virginia’s Safety and Health Codes Board adopted an emergency regulation designed to establish requirements for employers to control,…