Labor Day is passed, and the Privacy & Security Matters blog is back after a bit of a hiatus. The California State Legislature was busy up to the last day of the session working on privacy legislation
With
Brian Lam
June 28, 2018 will be a watershed day in the history of U.S. data privacy legislation.
With
Christopher Harvie,
Laura A. Stefani
Manufacturers of wireless devices used for IoT applications should take heed of new Trump Administration proposals aimed at reducing the cybersecurity threats from botnets and other automated and distributed attacks.
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Brian Lam
The Colorado Attorney General's office led part of the effort to pass the new law, making enforcement a likely priority.
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Susan Foster
If you glance at the "countdown clock" in the left hand sidebar of our blog, you'll see that it has reached 00:00:00. GDPR Day is here.
We are now in the 10-day countdown to the GDPR enforcement date that we've been talking about since 2015. If you are a charter member of Procrastinators Anonymous ...
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Elana Safner
Answering the centuries' old question, it appears it is the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") that watches the watchmen.
Managing the differing requirements remains a challenge, and points to the need for updated incident response plans.
With
Elana Safner
Uber Technologies, Inc. has agreed to an expansion of its initial August 2017 proposed consent agreement with the FTC, in light of revelations of an additional security breach in October 2016...
Alabama has joined the "crazy quilt" of state data breach notification laws with the governor's signature of the Alabama Data Breach Notification Act of 2018.
Only one U.S. state without a data breach notification law, that is.
Beware of March Madness! Scammers and phishers take advantage of increased web traffic by impersonating popular March Madness websites, including bracket sites and game live streams.
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Joanne Dynak,
Brian Lam
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") released expansive interpretive guidance ("2018 Guidance"), posted February 21, 2018, further building upon its far-reaching cybersecurity guidance ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in United States v. Microsoft Corp., in which the court will decide whether a US technology service provider ...
If your company is one of the broad group of businesses licensed by the New York Department of Financial Services (NY DFS), a very important deadline is bearing down on February 15.
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