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Earlier this year, Governor Josh Shapiro signed amendments to Pennsylvania’s Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (BPINA) into law, which go into effect on September 26. As part of the implementation of these...more
Over the last several months, a minority of states amended their data breach notification statutes or enacted sector-specific breach notification requirements. ...more
In mid-March, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law the Cybersecurity Affirmative Defense Act (HB80) (“the Act”), an amendment to Utah’s data breach notification law, creating several affirmative defenses for persons...more
Keypoint: New Utah law creates incentive for businesses to develop and implement a written cybersecurity program to protect themselves against data breach lawsuits. On March 11, 2021, Utah governor Spencer Cox signed the...more
Privacy and security continue to be at the forefront for legislatures across the nation, despite (or perhaps because of) the COVID-19 pandemic. In late May, with back-to-back amendments, Washington D.C. and Vermont...more
Effective as of March 21, 2020, New York State’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act)requires that nearly all businesses, regardless of where they are based, take affirmative steps to protect...more
States continue to enhance and expand their breach notification requirements, increasing the scope of breaches that require notice as well as the complexity of compliance. Four jurisdictions—Vermont, the District of Columbia,...more
Vermont recently amended its data breach notification law. The changes will go into effect July 1, 2020. As amended, the definition of “personal information” now includes the following when combined with a consumer’s first...more
Certain provisions of the New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) recently took effect in the state of New York. The act was signed into law by the governor in July 2019, and its data breach...more
The new data security requirements provision of New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act went into full force as of March 21, 2020, and all people and businesses, regardless of the state in...more
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic when more condo and coop board business is being conducted electronically than ever before, the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) will go into effect on...more
One of the major changes introduced by the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act, which was signed into New York law last year, is scheduled to take effect this week. ...more
As discussed in an earlier blog post, the New York state Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (or “SHIELD Act”), was signed into law on July 25, 2019....more
Time is running out. The effective date of New York’s cybersecurity law mandating that organizations implement an information security program to protect “private information” of New York State residents, including employee...more
New data retention limitations and disposal requirements on some types of businesses in New York will go into effect on March 21, 2020, under the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD Act) that was signed...more
From late June 2019 through mid-October 2019, a handful of states amended their data breach notification statutes. Specifically, six states amended their states to (1) require notice to the State Attorney General, (2) broaden...more
As we’ve previously reported, the New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act Act (the “SHIELD Act”) goes into effect on March 21, 2020. The SHIELD Act, which amends the State’s current data breach...more
In response to trends, heightened public awareness, and a string of large-scale data breaches, states continue to enhance their data breach notification laws. In 2017 Maryland amended its Personal Information Protection Act...more
On October 23, 2019, the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (the SHIELD Act) went into effect. The New York law imposes data breach notification requirements on any business that owns or licenses certain...more
Passed this summer, the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (“SHIELD”) Act introduces new requirements on all businesses that own or license the “private information” of any New York resident....more
With the January 1, 2020 effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) rapidly approaching, all eyes have been on the California legislature’s consideration of a robust suite of amendments that would...more
On February 21, 2019, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Assemblymember Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) announced Assembly Bill 1130 which intended to strengthen and expand California’s existing data breach...more
As the risk of data breach events—both from malicious outsiders and negligent insiders—continues to rise with no end in sight, New York recently enacted the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Handling (“SHIELD”)...more
New York’s latest attempt to strengthen its breach notification requirements to protect New York residents’ private information—the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act, commonly referred to as the SHIELD Act...more
As mentioned in my last blog post, there are data breach notification laws on the books in 48 states, including New York. On July 25, Governor Cuomo signed into law Senate Bill 5575, the “Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic...more