While the primary focus of this article is on "businesses" (as discussed below) that are responsible for collecting personal information (and who bear the brunt of the CCPA’s obligations), it is important for those entities that are service providers or recipients of data from businesses to understand how the CCPA impacts their customers and counterparties, and why new obligations are being imposed on them.

Attorney General Maura Healey is warning state businesses not to unfairly discriminate against job applicants with criminal records.

Consistent with the cliché that “everything’s bigger in Texas,” the Texas legislature has introduced not one, but two separate bills relating to the privacy of personal information. Although still in their nascent stages, both bills are following California’s lead in creating enhanced and stringent privacy protections for individual consumers.

While some of the first federal prison reform measures in decades were enacted under President Donald Trump early this year, the White House declared April 2019 as the “Second Chance Month,” highlighting several prison reform initiatives.

If you already have a compliance program for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a lot of this may sound familiar. While the CCPA borrows a number of GDPR concepts and definitions, and your GDPR program will give you a head start on CCPA compliance, the CCPA does require some additional steps.

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) recently released its report on Uber’s driver background check process in Pennsylvania as well as Uber’s implementation plan and directed the company to proceed with several recommendations to strengthen its background check process.

If nothing else, 20 years spent behind bars taught Cozie Welch that an education is the only thing given that cannot be taken away.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee won’t schedule a hearing for a “ban the box” bill that would restrict employers from asking about job applicants’ criminal histories, dealing a death blow to the proposal.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect January 1, 2020, is considered the most expansive state privacy law in the United States.

A bill that would remove criminal history questions from initial job applications in the private sector is headed to the governor’s desk.