Technology & Intellectual Property Update

Connecticut Connecticut is on track to be the next state to pass major data privacy legislation. If enacted, the Connecticut Act Concerning Consumer Privacy (the “Act”) would join the existing patchwork of state privacy laws. The Act would establish a framework for controlling and processing personal data, and include the standard consumer […]

Virginia In the February edition of the Technology & Intellectual Property Update, we wrote about the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“CDPA”) being sent to Gov. Northam to sign into law.  He did just that on March 2, 2021.  Virginia is now the second state to adopt a comprehensive data […]

Last month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) released its annual report to Congress summarizing consumer complaints received by the CFPB in 2020. In its report, the CFPB noted that consumer complaints increased by 54 percent when compared with 2019. The CFPB attributes the increase in complaints to the impact […]

Blackbaud is a Software as a Service (“SaaS”) provider for more than 45,000 nonprofit organizations, foundations, universities, and health care providers worldwide.  Last year Blackbaud suffered a data breach and a subset of its databases were stolen. [1]  The data subset contained client information used for fundraisings, marketing, financial management, […]

Earlier this month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) rescinded a Trump-era statement of policy that sought to define an “abusive” act or practice for purposes of the Dodd-Frank Act’s UDAAP prohibition. The now rescinded policy statement defined an “abusive” act or practice as one in which the harm to […]