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The Data Accountability and Trust Act (DATA Act), (H.R. 580), has been introduced in the House of Representatives. The bill would provide a nationwide data security standard, backed by FTC enforcement and civil penalties, as well as provisions requiring notification…
A recent SailPoint survey conducted by Vanson Bourne results amplified concerns of companies around the world about the use of cloud applications to share mission-critical information. In fact, 20% of employees, as in, 1 in 5 employees, has uploaded proprietary…
California and Delaware legislators have recently passed bills that impose new data security and privacy requirements on companies nationwide. The laws include new data breach notification requirements, marketing restrictions, and data destruction rules. Read an…
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), reports that there have been over 700 data breaches recorded in the U.S. so far this year, a 26 percent increase over the same time period in 2013. The Target breach that occurred late last year appears to have been a…
Is California’s Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (“ICRAA”) constitutional? The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is poised to hear oral argument on the question on February 2, 2015. California created two separate laws when enacting a…
The New Hampshire Legislature passedHB 1407 which will prohib it employers from obtaining an employee’s personal social media account user name and password. The bill passed both the House and the Senate. The governor is expected to sign it into law. This bill…
At the heart of EU data protection law is the passionate belief in the right to privacy. Indeed, the Treaty of Lisbon has now recognised both privacy and data protection as fundamental rights under EU law. Yet, like any other law, it must be clear when and where EU…
Delaware recently adopted a new law that will add requirements related to the destruction of records containing “personal identifying information.” With that law, Delaware joined a number of other states that place restrictions on the ways in which…
The FTC is responsible for ensuring fair trade practices. One of the mandates in the law that created the agency is ensuring companies don’t do “unfair and deceptive” things to consumers. “We’re one of the only cops on the beat when it…
Although it is called “social” media, individuals using online services such as Facebook or Twitter should not be required to divulge information they wish to keep private, said Senate Majority Leader Dominick J. Ruggerio and Rep. Brian Patrick Kennedy….