There is no shortage of proposed privacy legislation at the Federal level (see the chart below), but nothing is moving from committee. Why?

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect in a little over six months, and similar to the GDPR, it has many businesses wondering how difficult compliance will be. However unlike the GDPR, the CCPA is not yet a fully-fleshed out law.

Last year, the EU enacted the GDPR, an expansive data privacy regulation, which dramatically impacted businesses worldwide. Recently, on April 12, 2019, Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) introduced the latest in a string of federal privacy laws, entitled the “Privacy Bill of Rights” Act

If your company is considering a contract with a third-party vendor that needs to secure your data (and most do), ask yourself: if this vendor gets hacked and the client gets sued, what happens?

Clients often ask me about setting up a ‘simple’ multi-member LLC. Some multi-member LLCs may function just fine with simple operating agreements, but the typical multi-member Operating Agreement is complex.