Lexology June 27, 2022
It’s been a blazing hot summer and privacy professionals have been sweating to keep up with all of the updates from the last few months. We all knew this was going to be a busy year with updating European data transfer mechanisms and reviewing the long-awaited regulations from the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”), but I’m not sure if many of us were prepared for a draft bipartisan federal privacy law that has privacy professionals buzzing with excitement and the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (“CCPA”) impending applicability to California employees. Further abroad, regulators in China and Hong Kong have been busy lately as well, issuing guidance and initiating enforcement actions. Meanwhile, our neighbors to the north are contemplating a major...