The FTC staff published today a “Six-Step Compliance Plan” for businesses to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
The guidance, which provides a useful framework for businesses, states explicitly that COPPA applies to connected toys and other devices that collect personal information from children over the Internet. The FTC’s 2013 revisions to the COPPA Rule…
On May 16, 2017, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee of China released for public comment a draft of the National Intelligence Law (“the Draft Law”). The Draft Law, if enacted as drafted, would be the first Chinese statute to systematically address national intelligence related issues, including institutional structures,…
On Thursday, the FEC will return to the question of foreign nationals’ involvement in United States elections. This is an important question that deserves appropriate attention from our government. Be it the role of Chinese government-linked funds in the 1996 presidential campaign or the Russian government-linked cyber intrusion in the 2016 presidential race, Congress and…
On June 9, 2017, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”), together with three other agencies, released a Catalog of Critical Network Equipment and Network Security Products (First Batch) (“the Catalog,” original Chinese version available here). It specifies network products that must be certified before they can be marketed in China.
China’s Cybersecurity Law (see…
Part 3 of this three-part entry discusses a separate, but equally important, legal development in China’s data protection environment.
On May 8, 2017, the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued an interpretation of criminal law regarding infringement of citizens’ personal information (the “Interpretation”). The Interpretation examines the provision in China’s Criminal Law,…
Part 1 of this post clarified which parts of China’s latest Cybersecurity Law (the “Law”) are currently ready to be enforced and which parts are awaiting clarification in the form of implementing regulations or standards. In this post, we will discuss latest landscape of implementing regulations and national standards that supplement the Law.
Implementing…
On June 1, 2017, China’s new Cybersecurity Law (the “Law”) finally went into effect. It is the first Chinese law that systematically lays out the regulatory requirements on data privacy and cybersecurity, subjecting to government scrutiny many activities in cyberspace that were previously unregulated or addressed in a sector-by-sector fashion.
Three weeks after the Law…
The Trump administration’s efforts to curtail congressional oversight of executive branch agencies by individual Members of Congress, including ranking Democratic Members of Committees, ran into significant opposition from an unlikely source: Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Grassley’s strong reaction is consistent with his role as perhaps Congress’s…
The Section 809 Panel recently released an interim report and supplement (the “Interim Report”) advocating in broad strokes for a host of improvements to the Department of Defense’s (“DoD”) acquisition system to better streamline the process and increase industry offerings to the government. The NDAA for FY 2016 established the Section 809 Panel to address…
Majority party coalitions can be hard to manage, but a functioning congressional majority requires both wings of the Republican Party to come together on tough votes to produce at least 218 votes in the House and (most often) 60 votes in the Senate. The conservative House Freedom Caucus has a reputation for “refusing to get…
