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The Privacy Oracle consolidates significant US legislative and regulatory developments at the state and federal level into a single publication. In this month’s issue, we offer:
- An analysis of bills introduced in the 116th...more
4/29/2019
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Joseph Simons Sworn in as Chairman of the FTC -
Joseph Simons was sworn in on May 1 as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. President Donald J. Trump named Simons, a Republican, to a term on the Commission that...more
Senators Introduce Bipartisan Internet Privacy Bill -
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) on Tuesday introduced a bipartisan internet privacy bill intended to give users more control over what websites...more
Democrats Propose Tough Opt-In Privacy Law -
Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal proposed on Wednesday a “privacy bill of rights” that would prevent social media sites and other websites from sharing or selling sensitive...more
FTC Names Former Official As New Acting GC -
As reported in Law360 earlier this week, “The Federal Trade Commission on Monday named Alden F. Abbott as its new acting general counsel, a former official for the agency who...more
Commerce Fighting Data Localization Efforts, Official Says -
“The U.S. Department of Commerce has increasingly been working to find common ground on privacy issues with foreign governments in order to clamp down on calls...more
Google Faces New Privacy Suits For Non-User Email Scanning -
Law360 reported this week, “A California law firm said Thursday it has filed the first of what it hopes will be thousands of individual state court damages...more
Why Is Health Care Cybersecurity So Bad? Blame the Insiders, New Verizon Report Says - As reported originally in Fortune, “a new cybersecurity report from Verizon outlines the stunning degree to which internal actors are...more
DOJ Will Form Cybersecurity Task Force - Law 360 reports, “In the wake of numerous high profile hacks, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will form a Cyber-Digital Task Force aimed at combating a global...more
Group Makes $50 Million by Phishing Bitcoin Users Using Google AdWords -
Bleepingcomputer.com reports that cybercriminals use traditional phishing techniques to steal Bitcoin, but drive traffic to their phishing sites...more
Exclusive: U.S. Consumer Protection Official Puts Equifax Probe on Ice – Sources -
On Monday, Reuters reported that, “Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe...more
US News reports: “A legislative panel has approved a bill that would require companies to inform South Dakota residents whose personal information was taken in a data breach,” and that “the state needs a fair reporting law...more
“Following an increase in reported state data breaches in 2017, North Carolina’s attorney general and a state representative introduced data breach legislation to better protect individuals,” HealthIT Security reports.
In...more
IAB Europe reported that it “presented a new technical standard to support the digital advertising ecosystem in meeting requirements relating to user consent under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).”
The...more
The Federal Communications Commission released the full text of its anticipated privacy rules for internet service providers (ISPs), telecommunications carriers, and interconnected VOIP providers.
Broadly speaking, these...more
Today, the FCC formally adopted on a 3-2 party-line vote an order that enacts a new privacy and security regime for Internet service providers (ISPs). While it may be several days before the official order and the text of...more