Author Archives: John DiGiacomo

With respect to consumer and personal data collected by online businesses, sites, and sales platforms, the European Union (“EU”) and the United States have different statutory and regulatory regimes. There are many similarities, but there are also significant differences. However, given that so much business is global and cross-border, enormous flows of personal and consumer […]

On April 4, 2024, Kentucky became the sixteenth State to enact a consumer data privacy statute — the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (“KCDPA”). Since then, both Maryland and Nebraska have enacted data privacy statutes (and New Hampshire enacted a similar statute earlier in 2024). Eighteen States now have enacted some version of a consumer […]

In 2018, California became the first State in the United States to enact a consumer data privacy statute. The statute became effective on June 1, 2020. The California statute has been amended and expanded a couple of times since being passed and is deemed one of the strongest and most protective consumer data privacy statutes. […]

The legal debate concerning website and app accessibility for those who are visually and hearing impaired has been ongoing for at least a decade. Accessibility is accomplished with software coding embedded in the base structure of a website/app providing an audio description of visual content and a visual explanation of audio content. The software and […]

It can be wonderful and fun to be a social media influencer. But, the bottom line is that social media influencers are engaged in advertising and, as such, must comply with federal and State laws with respect to disclosure. Failure to disclose that you are being paid to endorse a product or service is considered […]

In 2023, Oregon enacted the Oregon Consumer Data Privacy Act (“OCDPA”). The OCDPA is similar to other consumer data protection acts that have been enacted in the U.S. In Part One of this series, the Consumer Data Privacy and Compliance Lawyers at Revision Legal discussed many of the obligations imposed by the OCDPA on businesses […]

In mid-summer 2023, Oregon joined the list of U.S. states that have enacted consumer data protection statutes. The Oregon version is called the Oregon Consumer Data Privacy Act (“OCDPA”). The OCDPA is similar to every other consumer data protection act that has been enacted in the U.S. The basic framework identifies “controllers” and “processors” of […]

As stated in Part One of this article, on April 4, 2023, Kentucky became the latest state to enact a consumer data privacy statute called the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (“KCDPA”). In Part One, the Consumer Data Privacy and Compliance Lawyers at Revision Legal discussed how the KCDPA resolved current policy debates and what […]

On April 4, 2024, Kentucky’s Governor Beshear signed the recently enacted Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (“KCDPA”). The KCDPA will become effective on January 1, 2026. Kentucky is the most recent state to pass a consumer data privacy statute. The various statutes have now converged and are quite similar in their framework, scope, and coverage. […]

In 2022, Utah enacted its version of an Act to protect the privacy of consumer’s personal and private data called the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”). Utah Code § 13-61-101, et seq. The UCPA is now fully operational, having taken effect at the end of 2023. The UCPA has the same structure and aspects as […]