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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) State Data Breach Notification Statutes

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2024 Breach Notification Law Update: Unique New State Obligations and Widespread New Federal Obligations

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Amid intense focus on AI and a flurry of consumer privacy law updates, legislative activity has continued to change data breach notification requirements in a variety of ways. Similar to 2023, a handful of changes to...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Looking Down the Road: Data Privacy Priorities in 2024

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2023 brought a surge of data privacy developments, with a large expansion of state comprehensive privacy laws, litigation of new claims based on older laws (e.g. wiretapping and VPPA cases), increased scrutiny on data...more

The Volkov Law Group

Data Privacy Update — Keeping Up with Developments

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When it comes to data privacy and regulation of personal information, United States companies face a number of major challenges.  Compliance is not easy when you have fast-moving targets.  The single biggest cause of this...more

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Data Breach Notice Requirement Added to Safeguards Rule for Non-bank Financial Institutions

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Non-bank financial institutions will have a new data breach disclosure requirement effective May 13, 2024. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently updated the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Safeguards Rule (“Safeguards Rule”), adding...more

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2023 Breach Notification Law Update: Changes to Notification and Security Requirements Continue at State and Federal Levels

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A flurry of legislative activity over the past year has brought meaningful changes to a variety of privacy and security provisions in state and federal law. At the state level, as in 2022, we have seen a handful of changes to...more

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Dechert Cyber Bits - Special Edition: 2023 Predictions

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What is in store for Privacy and Cybersecurity in 2023 - As the year ends, we offer this special edition with predictions for 2023 from each member of the Cyber Bits Partner Committee. Regardless of what happens in 2023, we...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

2022 Hindsight: Breach Notification Year in Review

While new comprehensive state privacy laws took most of the headlines this year, security threats and incident response remain key risk factors for privacy compliance programs and the subject of important legal developments....more

Hudson Cook, LLP

A Failure to Plan Is a Plan to Fail: Developing a Written Incident Response Plan

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On October 27, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission finalized its long-awaited updates to the Safeguards Rule. The changes require financial institutions, including auto dealers and finance companies, to dust off their existing...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Update: Following Breach Notification Laws Not Enough; Must Notify Consumers and Others to Mitigate...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced its position on breach notification:  “Regardless of whether a breach notification law applies, a breached entity that fails to disclose information to help parties...more

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FTC Settles with CafePress Over Data Security Breaches

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The FTC has reached a settlement with Residual Pumpkin Entity, LLC and PlanetArt, LLC—the former and current owners of online merchandise platform CafePress (collectively, “CafePress”)—to resolve allegations that CafePress...more

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Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 5, Issue 11

US Senator Urges Treasury Secretary Yellen to Take Action on Cryptocurrency Scams to Protect Investors “'This is an unregulated industry, and the alarming amount of criminal activity surrounding cryptocurrency demands...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Uber Criminal Complaint Raises the Stakes for Breach Response

On August 20, 2020, a criminal complaint was filed charging Joseph Sullivan, Uber’s former chief security officer, with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony in connection with an alleged attempted cover-up of a...more

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Let's Be Reasonable: Clearer Guidance for Minimum Information Security Standards

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“Reasonable” and “adequate” seem like benign terms — until you have to litigate using them as a standard for adequate data security. Over the coming years, the definition of “reasonable security” (and the alleged failure of...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Congressional Privacy Action – Part 2: The House

The House Bill. The House is taking a different approach to drafting a federal privacy bill. On December 18, Democratic and Republican staff for the House Energy & Commerce Committee released a bipartisan staff draft for...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Congressional Privacy Action – Part 1: The Senate

As 2020 gets underway, Congress will continue to deliberate on federal privacy legislation in the second session of the 116th Congress. The California Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, and...more

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Retail and Consumer Goods Team Alert: 2020 VISION

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With the turn of the calendar, the beginning of the new year, and the collective making of resolutions, it is also a good idea to understand the biggest legal risks that companies may confront in the near- and long-term....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Sweeping Privacy Proposals Unveiled in the Senate

On Tuesday, November 26, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, introduced the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act. The bill notably contains a private right...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Can Hackers be Ethical, not Evil?

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We are increasingly seeing situations in which a client’s information systems are breached by an ethical hacker. Typically, they take a screen shot or two of data to prove their accomplishment, carefully redact any...more

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Privacy and Data Security Alert | August 2019

French Data Protection Authority Issues Guidelines on Cookie Use - CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has released new rulesfor obtaining consumer consent under the GDPR for companies using cookies and other tracking...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - May 2019

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine expanded data breach notification laws in New Jersey and Washington state, as well as the SEC's risk alert regarding cloud-based storage solutions. We...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

Fenwick & West LLP

Deregulation is the New Buzzword in Washington — Except in the Tech Industry

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The past year has been a volatile one, from trade wars to the government shutdown to a stock market dive. One constant that U.S. businesses have become accustomed to, however, is deregulation across a wide variety of...more

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Did 2018 Set In Motion Privacy Regulation in the U.S. Landscape? Let's Review

Privacy and data security is constantly evolving and 2018 presented no exception. Let’s take a look back at some of the highlights of this year. Cambridge Analytica (March 2018): Facebook announced that Cambridge Analytica...more

Alston & Bird

The Digital Download – Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Newsletter – October 2018

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Features - International Updates (Excluding the EU) - India’s Draft Data Protection Bill: Another GDPR Around the Corner? India recently introduced the Personal Data Protection Bill 2018. ...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - June 2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the Eleventh Circuit's decision to vacate an order against LabMD regarding FTC cease-and-desist orders, new data breach notification laws in three U.S....more

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