Since its passage almost three years ago, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) has offered California-based consumers certain rights over the personal information companies collect and process about them.
While...more
6/15/2021
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Data Requests ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Multinationals ,
Personal Data ,
Proprietary Information ,
Trade Secrets
In early March, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) announced a consent order that required Maine-based mortgage servicer Residential Mortgage Services, Inc. (“Residential”) to pay a $1.5 million...more
3/23/2021
/ Banking Sector ,
Business E-Mail Compromise (BEC) ,
Consent Order ,
Covered Entities ,
Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Failure to Report ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Non-Public Information ,
NYDFS ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Sensitive Personal Information
The recent flurry of Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) activity in California and elsewhere has called into question the effectiveness of an increasingly common defense to BIPA litigation in Illinois: that federal...more