The New York Attorney General recently entered into an assurance of discontinuance with Root Insurance Company following a 2021 data incident. According to the AG, the threat actors obtained people’s drivers’ license numbers...more
At the end of 2024 the Italian Data Protection Authority issued a 15 million euro fine in the first generative AI-related case brought under GDPR. According to Garante (the Italian authority), OpenAI trained ChatGPT with...more
1/29/2025
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Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
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Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Italy ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Regulatory Requirements
As 2024 came to a close, New York Gov. Hochul signed two bills (A8872A and S2376B) amending New York’s data breach law. The modifications change both what constitutes personal information under the law, as well as modifying...more
The New York Attorney General’s Office recently settled with Albany ENT & Allergy Services over claims that the healthcare provider failed to protect over 200,000 consumers’ private health information. The claims stem from...more
Pennsylvania AG Michelle Henry announced yesterday the launch of an online portal for businesses to report data breaches to the AG’s office. The portal launch comes before Pennsylvania’s new breach amendments take effect on...more
TracFone, the pre-paid phone company, recently settled with the FCC over allegations that the company failed to protect customer information during three different data incidents. According to the FCC, in each of the...more
8/2/2024
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Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Enforcement Actions ,
FCC ,
Information Security ,
Privacy Laws ,
Settlement ,
Telecommunications ,
TracFone Wireless ,
Wireless Devices ,
Wireless Industry
Indiana recently amended its breach notification law to include as personal information age verification information collected by adult websites. At the same time, the state passed a new law for adult websites...more
In what may become an annual tradition, Pennsylvania has amended its breach notification law. The new provisions will take effect on September 26, 2024. As a reminder, Pennsylvania changed its law last year to expand the...more