Seyfarth’s Social Media Practice Group has prepared an easy-to-use “Social Media Privacy Legislation Desktop Reference,” as a...
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Tennessee Joins the Growing List of States Limiting Employers’ Access to Personal Online Content
Legislation to restrict employers’ access to applicants’ and employees’ personal online content continues its rapid expansion in...
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Connecticut Enacts Employee Online Privacy Law
On May 19, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed into law Public Act No. 15-6, titled “An Act Concerning Employee Online Privacy.” The act...
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Privacy Industry Index (PII): Data Breach Vendors
Protecting data has value and you have to invest to make sure that data is properly protected. Businesses must work with a large collection of...
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Wisconsin Adopts Password Protection Law
Wisconsin has become the thirteenth state to enact a law limiting the circumstances under which employers may request or require access to the...
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Two Data Brokers Settle FTC Charges That They Sold Consumer Data Without Complying With Protections Required Under the FCRA
Two data brokers have agreed to settle FTC charges that they violated the FCRA by providing reports about consumers to users such as prospective...
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2014 Data Protection and Breach Readiness Guide 2014 Breach Report Highlights:
89% of breaches and data loss incidents could have been prevented 740 million records disclosed 31% of insiders were due to insider threats or...
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U.S. Congress Ready to Enact Data Security and Breach Notification Rules After Recent Consumer Data Breaches
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...
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Is FCRA’s Prohibition on CRAs from Disclosing Truthful Public Information Constitutional?
The Southern District of California has granted the United States’ motion to intervene in Dowell v. General Information Services, Inc...
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Ex-NSA Chief Details Snowden’s Hiring at Agency, Booz Allen
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked information about the agency’s surveillance program, targeted Booz Allen Hamilton Inc...
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FTC Reaches Settlement With Accretive Health on Inadequate Data Security
On December 31, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Accretive Health, Inc. (“Accretive”) has agreed to settle charges...
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Workplace Privacy 2014: What’s New and What Employers May Expect
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...
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