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In the June edition of IAPP’s Privacy Advisor, Divonne Smoyer and Roger Gibboni talk to Indiana State Attorney General Todd Rokita on the possibility of Congress passing a federal privacy law, Indiana’s different approaches to data privacy and protection, and its recent announcement that the state was joining Washington, Texas, and D.C. in an…

On March 2, 2020, Reed Smith and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) presented a panel discussion on 2020 privacy laws and trends featuring Attorney General Christopher Carr of Georgia; Linda Holleran Kopp of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); and Oriana Senatore, Senior Vice President of Policy & Research at the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR).

A clear theme from the discussion was that federal legislation is the best path for privacy reform in the United States.  The current “patchwork quilt” of federal and state data privacy laws and enforcement by the FTC (and other agencies) as well as by states – now complicated exponentially by enforcement actions by cities and counties and the presence of private rights of action increasingly proposed for state privacy legislation – is not the way to best balance privacy consumer protection and business compliance.  Indeed, the evolving privacy landscape is now approaching a “crazy quilt patchwork.”
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The International Association of Privacy Professionals and Reed Smith’s Washington, D.C. office co-hosted the Association’s KnowledgeNet Chapter meeting, “Key Federal and State Regulatory and Enforcement Trends in Privacy to Watch in 2018 – Direct from the Regulators” on February 27, 2018.

Reed Smith partner Divonne Smoyer moderated a panel discussion featuring Utah Attorney General Sean…

Attorney General Maura Healey of Massachusetts has held her office since January 2015. Massachusetts has established itself as being on the cutting edge of data privacy regulations that call for robust written information security program and computer system requirements, and the attorney general’s office continues to be on the forefront of enforcement since its security…

Reed Smith and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) have teamed up again for IAPP’s Privacy Advisor series highlighting state attorneys general and their interest in privacy and data security. In last week’s newsletter, the Privacy Advisor focused on the work of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who has been active in this…

The International Association of Privacy Professionals hosted its first KnowledgeNet in New Jersey December 6, 2012, at the Princeton offices of Reed Smith. Reed Smith attorneys Mark Melodia and Paul Bond presented a seminar on “Understanding and Defending Big Data” to the gathering of dozens of privacy attorneys and privacy compliance professionals from…

This post was written by Christopher G. Cwalina.

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