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Hudson Cook, LLP

CFPB Bites of the Month - April 2024 - Won't Get Fooled Again, CFPB

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In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the April 2024 webinar....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB Forecasts New Rule Cracking Down on Consumer Data Sales

On August 15, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra announced plans for new CFPB rules that would strictly limit the types of consumer data that can be sold by businesses and ensure that data brokers comply with the Fair Credit...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

4th Circuit remands privacy suit to state court

On February 21, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a proposed class action over website login procedures belongs in state court. Plaintiff alleged that after a nonparty credit reporting agency...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #276 – Free Weekly Credit Reports Offered by Credit Reporting Agencies

The best way to find out if you have been the victim of identity theft and to determine what accounts may have been opened in your name by criminals is to get a copy of your credit report....more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

New York Expands Data Privacy Protections

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New York continued its active legislative session last week, this time by expanding its data breach notification law. The SHIELD Act (Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security), signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on July...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

Equifax Will Pay Minimum of $575 Million, up to $700 Million, in Settlement Over 2017 Data Breach

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Today, the FTC announced that Equifax, Inc. will pay at least $575 million (and potentially up to $700 million) as part of a proposed global settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Consumer Financial...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

North Carolina Amendments to Data Breach Law Finally Introduced

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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. § 75-61 et seq.. We first wrote about...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - March 2019

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine new cybersecurity legislation in California and Massachusetts, the British government's updates to its cybersecurity laws in anticipation of Brexit and...more

Bracewell LLP

New York Cyber Enforcement Steps Into the Breach

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Last month, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) proclaimed, “In an era of weakened federal government oversight, strong state regulation is essential in order to safeguard our markets, ensure strong...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Credit Reporting Agencies Now Must Register with NY DFS and Comply with Cybersecurity Regulations

The New York Department of Financial Services issued new regulations requiring every consumer credit reporting agency that “assembles, evaluates, or maintains a consumer credit report on any consumers located in New York...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Predicts $1 Billion Settlement in Data Breach Case – But Where’s the “Harm”?

This week, a high profile plaintiffs’ firm (Edelson) stated that “if done right,” the data breach class actions against Equifax should yield more than $1 billion in cash going directly to more than 143 million consumers...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Memo to Congress: Five Key Questions for Upcoming Equifax Hearings

Richard F. Smith – who presided over Equifax Inc. as CEO during one of the largest data breaches in a generation – will testify before two congressional committees this week....more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Massive Equifax Data Breach Raises Notification Questions

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It wasn’t a good week for credit reporting agency Equifax, which admitted to a major data breach affecting more than 143 million people. Consumers’ data was exposed over three months via a vulnerability in a web...more

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Court Applies Work Product Protection to Breach Investigation Reports

One of the most significant questions in data security law is whether reports created by forensic firms investigating data breaches at the direction of counsel are protected from discovery in civil class action lawsuits. ...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Alphabet Soup and Data Security

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In the span of two days, mobile device users learned of two data breaches that could compromise their personal data. In one, Experian (a credit reporting agency) reported that it was hacked, potentially putting 15 million...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Privacy Changes Coming to China

Originally published in Privacy & Security Law on 03/18/2013. There is continued focus in China on privacy and data security issues. China still has no omnibus law, but it has promulgated some sector-specific...more

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