Client Portals
In view of the recent spate of cyber attacks on retailers and the patchwork of existing laws that greatly complicate a company’s data breach response, Congress appears ready to create a national data protection and breach notification law that, in theory, would…
The Southern District of California has granted the United States’ motion to intervene in Dowell v. General Information Services, Inc. (GIS), to defend the constitutionality of 15 U.S.C. § 1681c, a provision of the FCRA. GIS contends that subsections (a)(2) and…
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked information about the agency’s surveillance program, targeted Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. for employment because of its access to national security contracts, said company vice chairman, Mike McConnell. McConnell…
On December 31, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Accretive Health, Inc. (“Accretive”) has agreed to settle charges that the company’s inadequate data security measures unfairly exposed sensitive consumer information to the risk of…
New laws that went into effect on January 1, 2014, are a harbinger of what employers may expect to see in the coming year regarding workplace privacy: more restrictions on access to applicants’ and employees’ criminal history, credit information, and…