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In December, The Defense Department, the General Services Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space administration has made it a requirement for those contract employees who handle personally identifiable information to work with a system of records to…
The Oregon House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted for House Bill 2090, which makes it an unlawful trade practice, enforceable by the Attorney General, if a company or a person uses, discloses, collects, maintains, deletes or disposes of consumer information in…
In the IAPP 2017 Privacy Tech Vendor Report, the IAPP has identified companies offering privacy technology solutions and loosely categorized the types of solutions they offer — from assessment managers to data discovery tools. The report also includes insight from a…
In an effort to advance wage equality, the Philadelphia Fair Practices Ordinance is being amended to make the city the first to ban employers from asking about the wage history of job applicants. The law also prohibits reliance on wage history in determining the wages…
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) council has issued a final rule that broadly requires specific privacy training and annual re-training for contractor or subcontractor personnel dealing with “personally identifiable information (PII). The provisions have no…
A Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago recently issued a final approval for a $1.5 million settlement between L.A. Tan Enterprises Inc. and a class of the franchise’s customers who claim it failed to properly handle their biometric information. This is the first…
New Jersey’s Valley National Bank is facing a putative class action in federal court after violating the federal fair credit reporting law when the company obtained consumer reports on job applicants without first informing the candidates. The suits seek damages…
Neiman Marcus was found guilty of violating the Illinois Employee Credit Privacy Act when a conditional offer of employment for an entry level sales associate was rescinded after the store ran a credit check that revealed judgments against her. The store argued for…
IBM and Ponemon Institute are pleased to present the 2016 Cost of Data Breach Study: United States, our 11th annual benchmark study on the cost of data breach incidents for companies located in the United States. The average cost for each lost or stolen record…
A California judge recently dismissed a putative class action filed against Bank of America Inc. and others after J. Robert Berrellez alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies and the Consumer Credit Reporting…