Legislative Status: The California Senate passed SB 790 and it is now before the California Assembly Committee on Health (next hearing is June 27, 2017), having been amended by the Assembly on June 13, 2017. If adopted by the Assembly with amendments from the version passed by the Senate, the Senate will then have to…
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Safeway to Pay $9.87 Million Settlement Over Alleged Privacy and Environmental Violations
On December 31, 2014, the second-largest U.S. grocery chain, Safeway, was ordered to pay a $9.87 million penalty as a part of a settlement with California prosecutors related to the improper dumping of hazardous waste, and the improper disposal of confidential pharmacy records containing protected health information in violation of California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information…
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California Attorney General Issues Guidance on Complying with Do-Not-Track
By: Aaron Krowne In 2013, the California Legislature passed AB 370, an addition to California’s path-blazing online consumer privacy protection law in 2003, the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”). AB 370 took effect January 1, 2014, and adds new requirements to CalOPPA pertaining to consumers’ use of Do-Not-Track (DNT) signals in their web browsers…
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California Requires Websites to Permit Children To Erase Postings to Protect Their Privacy and Restricts Permitted Advertising To Children
JK! LOL! I Did Not Mean to Post That – California Now Requires That Children Be Provided With a “Cyber Eraser” By Angelina Bruno-Metzger Of the new cyber laws signed by California Governor Jerry Brown, by far the most publicized and debated has been bill SB568, which provides minors with greater cyber privacy rights. There…
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