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D.C. Amends Data Breach Notification Law, Adds Security Requirements

At the end of March, Washington, D.C. signed the Security Breach Protection Amendment Act of 2019, which adds some significant changes to D.C.’s existing data breach law, first enacted in 2007. The law is projected to take...more

Cozen O'Connor

Eight Data Security Best Practices Revealed by Recent AG and FTC Enforcement Actions

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Although there is no standard set of measures that a company can implement to guarantee that it will be safe from data breaches – or from regulatory enforcement action should a data breach occur – recent multistate...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

California AG Releases Proposed CCPA Regulations

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The California Attorney General’s Office released its long-awaited proposed CCPA Regulations yesterday.  The proposed Regulations are 24 pages long, and address a number of important technical compliance issues including...more

BakerHostetler

Settlement Reached Between Neiman Marcus and State Attorneys General for $1.5 Million for 2013 Payment Card Breach

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Last week, the attorneys general (AGs) of 43 states and the District of Columbia announced they reached a $1.5 million settlement with Neiman Marcus Group LLC to resolve an investigation of a 2013 data breach that involved...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

California Passes Landmark Consumer Privacy CCPA—What it Means for Businesses

• California recently passed the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act that goes into effect in 2020, which grants California residents new privacy rights. • The CCPA creates a private right of action for California...more

Fisher Phillips

California Lawmakers Pass Sweeping New Data Privacy Law - Last-Minute Legislative Compromise Opens Door To Liability And...

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Due to some last-minute bargaining between state lawmakers and proponents of a controversial data privacy initiative, California businesses will soon need to prepare to comply with a new state measure designed to protect...more

Jackson Walker

All 50 States Have Breach Notification Laws

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Alabama and South Dakota have now enacted data breach notification laws. They were the last two states in the United States without a notification law. Both laws cover the usual topics, defining what categories of information...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Alabama Becomes 50th State to Enact Data Breach Notification Law

Alabama has joined the “crazy quilt” of state data breach notification laws with the governor’s signature of the Alabama Data Breach Notification Act of 2018. Things to take note of under the Alabama law...more

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New York Introduces New Data Protection Legislation

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Citing a sixty percent increase in data breach notifications from 2015 to 2016, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman recently introduced the Stop Hacks and Improve Data Electronic Security Act (SHIELD) bill. The...more

Troutman Pepper

California Attorney General 'Crowdsources' Reporting of Privacy Policy Violations

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This initiative by the Attorney General is effective immediately and is just the latest example of California’s effort to increase enforcement of laws aimed at protecting the privacy and data security of individual consumers....more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Summer Round-Up: Four States Bolster Data Breach Notification Laws and More Changes on the Way

As has become typical in the data security space, there was quite a bit of activity in state legislatures over the previous year concerning data breach notification statutes. Lawmakers are keenly aware of the high profile...more

Locke Lord LLP

Rhode Island Amends Identity Theft Protection Act

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Rhode Island recently amended its 10-year-old Identity Theft Protection Act effective June 26, 2016, further defining and refining existing data security and breach notification requirements, and adding a requirement to...more

Snell & Wilmer

Nearly 50 Million Records Breached in California Since 2012

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Earlier this month, the California Attorney General’s Office released the 2016 Data Breach Report covering years 2012 through 2015 for the State of California (the “AG’s Report”). The AG’s Report reveals that 557 data...more

Littler

Recent Amendments to Security Breach Notification Laws Further Complicate Breach Notification for Employers

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It is not a matter of "if" but "when" an employer will be required to notify employees of a security breach.  Forty-seven states require employers to notify employees when defined categories of personal information, including...more

Alston & Bird

California Attorney General’s Open Data Initiative – The Latest in State and Federal Government Efforts to Harness the Power of...

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Early this month, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced a unique data initiative to expand the public’s access to key criminal justice information that has been, to date, largely blocked from public...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - August 2015

Internet Cafes Lose a Bet With the California Supreme Court - In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court upheld an injunction against the operators of Internet cafes that offered “sweepstakes” games the Court...more

King & Spalding

State Attorneys General Ask Congress Not To Preempt Breach Notification Laws

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In the wake of recent, large-scale data breaches, several pieces of legislation have been introduced in Congress to establish a national data breach notification law, including a House bill that would preempt the current...more

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Connecticut Updates its Data Security Laws, Imposing Stringent New Requirements

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On June 30, 2015, the Governor of Connecticut signed into law S.B. 949, “An Act Improving Data Security and Agency Effectiveness." The new law updates Connecticut’s data security laws, including by adding a 90-day hard...more

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