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
3/30/2021
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
DSS ,
GLBA Privacy ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
PCI ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
State and Local Government ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes
Keypoint: Maryland lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow Maryland residents to opt-out of certain types of personal information transfers but that would stop far short of creating CCPA-like rights for Maryland...more
Key Point: The SHIELD Act increases the statutory penalties for knowing and reckless violations of the State’s data breach notification law. It also authorizes the NY Attorney General to pursue injunctive relief and monetary...more
Given the near ubiquitous coverage of proposed CCPA amendments, it may be hard to believe that any bill could fly under the radar, but that appears to be the case with AB 1035, which would amend the CCPA’s private right of...more
A surprise legislative storm ripped through Olympia, Washington last week, and the proposed Washington Privacy Act (SB-5376) took the brunt of the damage. The bill sailed through the Democrat-controlled Washington State...more
As we move into the second month of 2019, we’d like to give an overview of the trends we see developing in the cybersecurity and data privacy area for the year. We’ll be sure to elaborate on these areas with more details as...more
2/5/2019
/ Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
CNIL ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Retention ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware
Colorado’s Protections for Consumer Data Privacy law (“new law”) takes effect on September 1, 2018 and requires that businesses holding personal information for Colorado residents destroy the data they don’t need, protect the...more