On March 21, 2017, the Attorney General (“AG”) of New York, Eric T. Schneiderman, announced that his office received a record number of data breach notices in 2016. The total number of breach notifications received by the...more
Pizza Hut and several franchise owners are currently defending a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Southern District of Florida based on claims that their 2011 promotional text-message campaign violated the...more
Adobe Systems, Inc. (“Adobe”) agreed to settle an investigation by 15 states related to an incident in 2013 in which Adobe was the victim of a data security breach that exposed the user name, account information, and credit...more
Security breach notification obligations vary by state, including how a security breach is defined, the method for providing notice of the breach, and any requirements to notify state regulators. The following summarizes...more
On June 29, 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Loretta Lynch in her official capacity as the United States Attorney General to challenge the constitutionality of a provision of the Computer Fraud...more
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At the midyear conference of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (“NASCIO”) held on May 2, 2016, representatives from Georgia and Washington reported about their efforts to unify the different state...more