Buying products overseas and importing them to the U.S. is no easy task. Companies have to worry about compliance with foreign laws and regulations (often with a language barrier and in a very different legal system) and strict and complex U.S. import rules. It is easy for companies to lose sight of the many U.S.
California’s New Data Privacy Laws (CCPA) Could Crush China-Focused Businesses
It’s been a while since I’ve written about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) on this blog, but now’s as good a time as any. CCPA is a consumer privacy law that took effect earlier this year, applies to businesses across the globe, and has some unique ramifications for companies that do business
Pay Close Attention to California’s New IoT Law
A few days ago, California passed the first U.S. information security law specifically targeting the Internet of Things (or IoT). We wrote about the law, SB-327, about a year ago when it first passed. SB-327 has gotten relatively little press compared to California’s other pioneering data protection statute, the California Consumer Privacy Act
New California Data Privacy Law Will Affect Businesses Across the Globe
This isn’t the first time I’ve written on the China Law Blog (see here) about the California Consumer Privacy Act (or “CCPA”), California’s massive new privacy law that many compare to EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (or “GDPR”), but it’s certainly becoming more important now as CCPA takes effect in about six weeks. If
GDPR Meets its Match . . . in China
Most established European and American companies that do business in or with China have already done a good deal to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and maybe even the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). They have likely drafted new privacy policies, re-designed their websites, and adopted more internal controls to be
European Privacy Rules Spell Big Changes for International Companies
I recently wrote about a series of incoming and existing California privacy laws that will require massive compliance shifts for companies across the globe. California has the most robust privacy law of any jurisdiction in the United States and second in scope only to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), a groundbreaking EU
California Laws Spell Big Changes for International Companies
Many of our China clients sell their products and services to the United States. And because nearly all these companies sell to California, the China Law Blog editors asked me to write about how California’s rapidly advancing privacy and data security laws impact foreign companies that do business with California. I have been tasked with
The Internet of Things and California Proposition 65
Most IoT products are made in China and most of those IoT products are then sold in the United States, including California. It therefore bears mentioning that California Governor Jerry Brown last week approved SB-327, the first information security law in the U.S. specifically targeting the IoT.
SB-327 will take effect on January 1,