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Mary T. Costigan is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. and a core member of the firm’s Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity practice group. She holds a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (iapp).

Mary advises regional, national and multinational clients across various industries on data privacy and cybersecurity laws and best practices including employee monitoring, internet privacy, biometric data collection, artificial intelligence, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), HIPAA, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

Mary has extensive experience helping clients respond to cybersecurity incidents including ransomware attacks.

1. What’s changing?

Under the current version of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), an employer’s obligations related to the personal information it collects from employees, applicants, and contractors residing in California (collectively, “Employment Information”) are relatively limited.  Specifically, it needs to (1) provide those individuals a “notice at collection” that discloses the categories of

The California Privacy Protection Act (CPRA) amended the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and has an operative date of January 1, 2023. The CPRA introduces new compliance obligations including a requirement that businesses conduct risk assessments. While many U.S. companies currently conduct risk assessments for compliance with state “reasonable safeguards” statutes (e.g., FloridaTexas

The CCPA has reached the one-year mark. This is a good time for businesses to review the success of their compliance programs and recalibrate for the CCPA’s second year. Here are a few suggestions to kick off that review:

  1. Privacy Policies. The CCPA requires a business to update the information in its privacy policy

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), considered the most expansive U.S. privacy laws to date, is set to take effect January 1, 2020. In short, the CCPA places limitations on the collection and sale of a consumer’s personal information and provides consumers certain rights with respect to their personal information. Wondering whether they will

Data privacy and security regulation is growing rapidly around the world, including in the United States. In addition to strengthening the requirements to secure personal data, individuals are being given an increasing array of rights concerning the collection, use, disclosure, sale, and processing of their personal information. Meanwhile, organizations’ growing appetite for more data, and