Chris Achatz

As businesses prepare for the rollout of new state privacy laws and the update to California’s comprehensive consumer privacy law that will all take effect in 2023, KO’s data privacy and security team has launched a four-part educational video series to help businesses prepare to operate under the evolving patchwork…

Five new U.S. state privacy laws go into effect in 2023. Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah have followed California in enacting CCPA-like comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. Additionally, California’s comprehensive consumer privacy law will receive a major overhaul on January 1, 2023. In the absence of a federal privacy law, businesses…

State legislatures across the country have been proposing and enacting comprehensive privacy bills that will begin to take effect on January 1, 2023. Without a doubt, 2023 is guaranteed to be a foundational year for privacy compliance. On September 15, 2022, KO’s data privacy experts Chris Achatz, Erin Locker, Malia Rogers, and…

KO Client AMPLY Power, an EV charging and energy management provider, has been acquired by America’s largest energy investor bp. The KO team, led by partners Charles Ciaccio and Dan Fredrickson, represented AMPLY Power. This acquisition marks bp’s first major step into electrification in the U.S. AMPLY Power is working…

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which clarifies and expands the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), was passed by ballot initiative in the Nov. 3 General Election. The CPRA will amend the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”). Because of its significant expansion of the CCPA obligations, the…

KO client Brandfolder, a leader in digital asset management, was recently acquired by Smartsheet, the leading collaborative work management platform, for $155 million. The acquisition will combine Brandfolder’s and Smartsheet’s capabilities to create a dynamic solution that enables enterprise-wide content workflows, allowing organizations to work more efficiently and effectively. Since…

On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) released its opinion in the “Schrems II” case and invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as a method for transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States. In the same opinion, the CJEU upheld…

On June 24, 2020, it was announced that the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”) garnered enough signatures to appear on the November 3, 2020 California ballot. The CPRA would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”). Because of its significant expansion of the CCPA obligations, the…