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Data Breach
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Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
North Carolina AG Proposes Stronger Breach Notification and Personal Information Safeguard Requirements
Citing to estimates in 2017 “more than 5.3 million North Carolinians were … affected by a data breach,” Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine announced on January 8…
Financial Services Perspectives
Will Congress Upend Credit Reporting Agencies’ Cybersecurity Regulation in Light of Recent Data Breach?
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) introduced the Data Breach Prevention and Compensation Act on January 10, 2018 in an effort to increase accountability of large Credit Reporting Agencies…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Why Companies in Mexico Should Reassess Their Compliance with Data Privacy Protocols—and Their Risk of a Data Breach
According to the Constitution of Mexico, the protection of personal data is a fundamental right of all Mexican citizens. Under federal law, individuals also have a right to access, change,…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Ancestry.com Server Exposes 300,000 Email Addresses and Passwords
Ancestry.com has confirmed that RootsWeb, its free website for individuals to search genealogy, recently had a security vulnerability on its server that exposed a file containing the usernames, email addresses…
Information Bytes
12 reasons to govern your information in 2018
By Peter Sloan
[caption id="attachment_2485" align="alignright" width="320"] "This is your information, ungoverned."[/caption] 2017 was rife with data dangers. Nary a day passed without headlines of massive data breaches and ransomware attacks; Russian election-meddling through WikiLeaks and…
Editorial Team
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Nuclear Power, Data Breaches and the Impact of Whistleblowers
Welcome back to another week of LexBlog's Top 10 in Law Blogs! This week's assortment features a post from Hogan Lovells' Amy Roma & Sachin Desai John Mansfield on state…
Tech Law Blog
UK High Court rules on class action claim for data breach
The UK High Court recently found supermarket chain Morrisons vicariously liable for the actions of an ex-employee who leaked payroll data of almost 100,000 employees. The claim was brought by…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
Massachusetts Attorney General Settles For Data Breach Over Stolen Laptop—Sign of Increased Enforcement Scrutiny?
By Jonathan S. Kolodner, Rahul Mukhi, Richard Cipolla
A recent enforcement action by the Massachusetts’s Attorney General Office (“Mass. AG”) serves as a stark reminder of how important it is to have robust data security policies and practices…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Reflections on Technology-Related Legal Issues: Looking Back at 2017; Will 2018 Be a Quantum Leap Forward?
As we approach the end of 2017, it is a time to reflect on the dizzying pace of technology evolution this year, and the amazing array of legal issues it…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Cancer Center Settles with HHS for $2.3 Million over Data Breach
On December 6, 2017, health care provider 21st Century Oncology agreed to pay 2.3 million dollars to settle charges by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil…