Late last Friday afternoon, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released updated regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The updates contain a number of material modifications to the initial CCPA regulations that AG Becerra’s office released in October 2019. Alston & Bird has compiled a privacy briefing summarizing the 30 key modifications to […]
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Wim Nauwelaerts Authors Summary of EDPB’s Guidelines of the GDPR
Wim Nauwelaerts, Brussels partner and leader of the firm’s EU Privacy and Data Protection practice, has authored a summary of the European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) guidelines on the territorial scope of the GDPR. On November 12, 2019, the EDPB adopted the final version of its guidelines – almost one year after they had been […]
Critical Audit Matters Disclosure Implicates Information Technology and Security
As independent auditors to public companies and business development companies begin to make required disclosure of Critical Audit Matters (CAMs) to the audit committee, such reports are beginning to include discussion of information security programs and information technology controls. Independent auditors have treated material weaknesses in certain information technology controls as material weaknesses in internal […]
Alston & Bird Details 21 Potentially Significant Impacts from Draft CCPA Regulations
Late last week, the Californa Attorney General published much-anticipated proposed Regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). The Regulations are extensive and contain a number of potentially material business impacts. To help companies work through the Regulations, Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security team published a client advisory outlining “21 Potentially Significant […]
California Releases Proposed CCPA Regulations
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released today a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Action and Proposed Regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act. The Attorney General will hold four public hearings to address these regulations on December 2, 3, 4, and 5, 2019. The written comment period will then end on December 6, 2019. These regulations […]