Mark Quist

Firm/Organization: Reed Smith LLP

Blogs: AdLaw By Request®, Technology Law Dispatch

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Equifax agrees to enhanced security and privacy measures and will pay states and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at least $575 million to resolve multistate investigation of 2017 data breach.

July 24, 2019

The recently announced multistate settlement between credit reporting company Equifax Inc. and the Attorneys General of 48 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia (the AGs) demonstrates the increasingly active role of state regulators in policing the privacy and security practices of businesses that handle consumers’ personal information. The multistate settlement is part of a comprehensive agreement between Equifax, the AGs, and other state and federal regulators, under which Equifax will pay at…

AdLaw By Request®

FTC and state law enforcement officials announce initiative targeting illegal telemarketing

By Gerard Stegmaier & Mark Quist

June 28, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a joint state-and-federal initiative, “Operation Call It Quits,” which targets illegal telemarketing practices that violate the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The TSR, which applies to interstate telephonic marketing communications intended to “induce the purchase of goods or services or a charitable contribution,” makes it illegal to engage in “abusive” acts and practices like failing to transmit caller identification information, calling telephone numbers listed on the National Do Not…

Technology Law Dispatch

FTC and state law enforcement officials step up efforts against illegal telemarketing

By Gerard Stegmaier & Mark Quist

June 27, 2019

Technology Law Dispatch

FTC settlement and warning letters over cross-border personal data transfers

By Mark Quist & Gerard Stegmaier

June 17, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recently announced settlement with background check provider SecurTest, Inc. shows the agency remains vigilant regarding businesses’ claims that they comply with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield). Privacy Shield provides U.S. businesses with a legally recognized mechanism for receiving personal data in the United States from the EU. In its complaint against SecurTest, the FTC alleges that for several months SecurTest falsely claimed on its website that it complied…

Technology Law Dispatch

What businesses should know about the upcoming CCPA rulemaking

By Gerard Stegmaier & Mark Quist

May 5, 2019

With barely half a year until the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect in January 2020, the landmark privacy law is in a state of flux. The already-amended landmark law is likely to face further rounds of revision, and the California Attorney General is required to hammer out many key compliance requirements through an administrative rulemaking. Gerry Stegmaier and Mark Quist recently co-authored an article for the Washington Legal Foundation examining the key issues…

Technology Law Dispatch

California Attorney General proposes expanded CCPA Private Right of Action following State Assembly Hearing on possible 2019 amendments to the landmark privacy law

By Gerard Stegmaier & Mark Quist

February 26, 2019

BREAKING: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (AG) announced a proposed series of amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that would: Expand consumers’ private right of action to include all alleged violations of their rights under the CCPA; Eliminate businesses’ 30-day opportunity to “cure” alleged violations prior to being subject to civil enforcement by the AG (cure provision); and Eliminate businesses’ right to ask the AG’s opinion on how to comply with the CCPA.…

Technology Law Dispatch

Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act violation does not require an allegation of actual harm

By Michael Galibois, Wendell Bartnick, Mark Quist & Erica Spilde

February 25, 2019

Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS 14/1 et seq. (BIPA) stands out among state biometrics statutes nationwide in that it includes a private right of action for anyone “aggrieved” by a private entity’s failure to comply with BIPA’s compliance requirements. The Illinois Supreme Court recently ruled that a plaintiff may assert that they are “aggrieved” for purposes of pleading a claim under BIPA without alleging any “actual harm.” The new ruling may increase class…

Technology Law Dispatch

Comprehensive data privacy legislation introduced in Massachusetts – includes private right of action without a need to prove harm

By Mark Quist

February 10, 2019

Massachusetts state Senator Cynthia Creem has introduced a consumer data privacy bill, SD 341, that would give Massachusetts consumers the right to sue in the event their personal information or biometric data is improperly collected or distributed or for any other potential violation of the new law. Under SD 341, and similar to Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), consumers may not be required to demonstrate or have suffered monetary or property losses in…

Mark Quist

Equifax agrees to enhanced security and privacy measures and will pay states and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at least $575 million to resolve multistate investigation of 2017 data breach.

FTC and state law enforcement officials announce initiative targeting illegal telemarketing

FTC and state law enforcement officials step up efforts against illegal telemarketing

FTC settlement and warning letters over cross-border personal data transfers

What businesses should know about the upcoming CCPA rulemaking

California Attorney General proposes expanded CCPA Private Right of Action following State Assembly Hearing on possible 2019 amendments to the landmark privacy law

Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act violation does not require an allegation of actual harm

Comprehensive data privacy legislation introduced in Massachusetts – includes private right of action without a need to prove harm

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