On April 16, 2019, Representatives Saine, Jones and Reives introduced House Bill 904, the long anticipated amendments to the North Carolina Identity Theft Protection Act, N.C. Gen. Stat. ยง 75-61 et seq.. We first wrote about...more
4/17/2019
/ Amended Legislation ,
Consumer Reporting Agencies ,
Credit Reporting Agencies ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Protection ,
Identity Theft ,
Notification Requirements ,
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State Data Breach Notification Statutes ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
With major consumer data breaches making headlines on a semi-regular basis, legislators around the country are starting to hold businesses more accountable for cybersecurity compliance. Industry-specific laws such as HIPAA...more
2/7/2018
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
FTC Act ,
Gramm-Leach-Blilely Act ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Proposed Legislation ,
State and Local Government ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
The Federal Trade Commission, continuing its quest to be the enforcer of consumer privacy rights, has come down hard this month on ASUSTeK and LabMD for their failure to have adequate data security standards. Because the FTC...more