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About David Keating

David Keating focuses his practice on matters involving technology and data and co-leads the Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team. He has advised clients on privacy and security issues arising along the entire data lifecycle for more than 20 years. He assists clients with compliance strategies, policy development and implementation, data monetization and data use analyses, new product development, privacy and security issues in transactions, and privacy enforcement matters.

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California Attorney General Targets Location Data in New Investigative Sweep

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This week California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a new investigative sweep under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We have anticipated this sweep for some time based on the focus and the direction of a number of inquiries, investigations, and enforcement proceedings initiated by Attorney General Bonta’s office over the past 12-24 months. The […]

CPPA Board Advances CCPA Regulations to Formal Rulemaking; Adopts New Data Broker Regulations

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On November 8, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (the “CPPA”) Board advanced to formal rulemaking the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) draft regulations on cybersecurity audits, risk assessments, automated decisionmaking technology (ADMT) and insurance. The CPPA Board also adopted the California Delete Act proposed regulations, which clarify data broker registration requirements and provide definitions […]

More Guidance from HHS on Online Tracking Technologies but Questions Remain

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Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released updated guidance yesterday on the use of online tracking technologies (like cookies, pixels, software development kits (SDKs), etc.) by HIPAA Covered Entities (the “Updated Guidance”). The Updated Guidance amends and supersedes HHS’s original guidance on the use of digital tracking technologies published on December 1, 2022 (the “Prior Guidance”).  […]

White House Executive Order to Regulate Transactions Involving Sensitive Personal Data of Americans

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Today, the White House announced that President Biden will sign an executive order designed to protect sensitive data of U.S. persons from exploitation by identified countries of concern.  This executive order is expected to be published later today, and to direct the Department of Justice (DOJ) to issue regulations designed to address transactions that involve […]

CBDF Research Fellow Theodore Christakis Publishes Study on Cross-Border Data Transfers and the EU’s “Zero Risk” Approach

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Theodore Christakis, Professor of International Law at the University Grenoble Alpes and Senior Fellow and Director of Research for Europe at the Cross-Border Data Forum, has published a new comprehensive analysis on cross-border transfers of personal data and the EU’s data protection authorities’ “Zero Risk” theory developed since the CJEU Schrems II Judgment. Prof. Christakis looks […]