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2021 Environmental, Health, and Safety Outlook for Manufacturers

By Megan Baroni

January 14, 2021

This week, we continue with our 2021 outlook series with a focus on environmental, health, and safety. This year brings a new Presidential administration, and with it will come a host of new programs, as well as some new takes on established programs. The following are a few initiatives that could impact manufacturers in 2021. Focus on Environmental Justice The Biden/Harris team has made it clear that environmental justice issues will be a priority across…

Ubiquiti Notifies Customers of Breach

January 14, 2021

Ubiquiti, a manufacturer of products used for networks such as routers, webcams and mesh networks, announced this week that an unauthorized access to its systems hosted by a third-party cloud provider may have compromised customers’ name, email address and “the one-way encrypted password to your account” as well as address and telephone number if that also had been provided. Ubiquiti did not identify the name of the third-party cloud provider. It is urging customers to…

Activist Hackers Claim They Archived Parler Content Leading Up to Riots

January 14, 2021

Users of the Parler social media platform who participated in the riots last week at the U.S. Capitol are reportedly uneasy following the announcement that several activist hackers archived posts as they were happening in real time during the riots, and that they will release the posts publicly to assist law enforcement with investigations. Another activist hacker is reported to have said that she archived material as it was being posted to show how the…

FTC Warns of COVID-19 Scam Targeted at Small Businesses

January 14, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning small businesses that they are being targeted by scammers through a new coronavirus-related scam. The scam “starts with an email that claims to come from the ‘Small Business Administration Office of Disaster Assistance.’ It says you’re eligible for a loan of up to $250,000 and asks for personal information like birth date and Social Security number.” Unfortunately, many small businesses have been dramatically affected by the coronavirus and…

Privacy Tip #267 – Fertility Tracking App Settles with FTC

January 14, 2021

Flo Health, Inc., (Flo) which offers a fertility-tracking app (Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker) used by more than 100 million customers, has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to dismiss the FTC’s claims that Flo shared the health information of its users with data analytics firms despite promising users that it would keep the information private. According to the FTC’s press release, the FTC alleged that “Flo promised to keep users’ health…

SolarWinds Cyber-Attack Has Significant Implications for Developers and Contractors

By Guest Contributor

January 14, 2021

ICYMI, on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an update about what it termed “a major incident under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act”: the global SolarWinds cyberattack that had compromised its email system. (SolarWinds is a software provider. In December, 2020, SolarWinds revealed that cybercriminals had injected malware into its Orion® Platform software, a platform used for centralized IT monitoring and management. In doing so, the cybercriminals were…

SolarWinds Cyber-Attack Has Significant Implications for Developers and Contractors

By Virginia Trunkes

January 14, 2021

DBE Gross Receipts Cap Adjusted for Inflation

By Lisa Andrzejewski

January 13, 2021

In December 2020, the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) amended the small business size limit under the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program (section 1101(b) of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (Pub. L. 114-94, Dec. 4, 2015). The rule, which goes into effect on January 13, 2021, increases the DBE gross receipts cap (averaged over the firm’s previous three fiscal years) to $26,290,000 for Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration…

Everalbum Settles with FTC over Facial Recognition Technology in its Ever App

By Kathryn Rattigan

January 13, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its settlement with Everalbum Inc. (Everalbum) for its Ever app, a photo and video storage app, due to its alleged deception of consumers related to the app’s use of facial recognition technology and its retention practices around deactivated accounts. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, Everalbum must delete models and algorithms that it developed using users’ uploaded photos and videos and obtain express consent from its users prior to applying…