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Data Breach
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Data Counsel
California Data Breach Notification Laws Expand to Include Login Information
Authored by: Charles K. Shih On Friday, September 27, California governor Jerry Brown signed a bill, S.B. 46, which increases the online protection of potential identity theft for Californians by…
Proskauer on Privacy
California Amends Data Breach Notification Law
On September 27, 2013, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law an amendment to California’s breach notification law (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.82). Effective January 1, 2014, under the amended…
Data Counsel
Vermont Grocery Store Agrees to Settlement with Attorney General for Alleged Violation of State Data Breach Response Laws
Co-authored by: Charles K. Shih Natural Provisions, Inc., a Vermont health foods grocery chain, agreed to pay $30,000 to settle claims brought by the Vermont attorney general that it failed…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
LexisNexis' Privacy Litigation, Security Breach, and Breaking Bad Commercial
By Greg Lambert
"Better Call Saul!" I'm watching the Breaking Bad marathon last night when a commercial comes on mentioning a familiar company. Although I couldn't find the 30 second spot telling me…
Data Counsel
Disposal of IT Equipment Presents Hidden Data Breach Risks
By Judy Selby
As reported here last summer, many types of IT equipment have the capacity to store data that may have to be purged before the equipment can be recycled, remarketed or…
Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Online Privacy Is Getting Interestinger and Interestinger!
In case you haven’t heard, online privacy is getting very complicated and Internet users are worried. It’s no wonder given all the activity in the industry, with daily stories on…
La Revue
Notification des violations de données personnelles : nouvelles procédure et précisions
Contexte La révision des directives « Paquet télécom » en 2009 a conduit le législateur européen à imposer aux fournisseurs de services de communications électroniques l'obligation de notifier les violations de données…
Data Counsel
District Court rejects supervisor liability for state employee’s motor vehicle record data breach
Editor’s Note: This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog and was authored by Matthew Moody and Sammatha Clegg In a recent decision, the Federal District Court…
Class Action Lawsuit Defense
District Court rejects supervisor liability for state employee’s motor vehicle record data breach
Co-authored by: Sammatha Clegg Editor’s Note: This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor blog. In a recent decision, the Federal District Court of Minnesota found that state agencies…
Health Law Rx
It’s Never too Late to Give Guidance: OCR Starts Releasing HIPAA Omnibus Rule Guidance in Anticipation of September 23 Compliance Deadline
By Adam R. Maingot, Richard T. Jones, Elizabeth F. Hodge
This has been a busy week for the Department of Health and Human Services / Office for Civil Rights (HHS/OCR). It has started releasing guidance on various provisions of the…