Covers laws and regulations governing the collection, use, sharing, storage, and security of personal data, including consent, transparency, data subject rights, and cross-border transfers. Topics often include compliance programs, breach notification, vendor management, online tracking, and enforcement under regimes such as GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, and other privacy and cybersecurity rules.
You can file a California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) complaint without a lawyer by submitting your complaint to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) online and documenting the business’s failure to honor your privacy rights. The CPPA investigates violations involving access, deletion, correction, opt-out, and related consumer requests under California privacy law. This article explains […]
Student privacy law (FERPA) is a 1974 federal law that protects the privacy of student education records at schools receiving U.S. Department of Education funding. It grants parents rights to access and request corrections, which transfer to students at age 18 or when attending postsecondary school. This article explains FERPA basics, covered records, disclosures, and […]
Digital privacy law is the set of rules that governs how organizations collect, use, share, secure, and delete personal data. In the U.S., it comes from a patchwork of federal and state statutes—such as the CCPA/CPRA in California—along with sector-specific regulations and enforcement by agencies and courts. This article explains what counts as personal data, […]
