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State Watch: Consumer Protection Enforcement Update - August 2025

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The Massachusetts AG enforces the state's mortgage servicing, debt collection, and data breach notification laws, while Texas takes aim at junk fees....more

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Amendments Align Pennsylvania’s Breach Notification Law With Majority of States

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Earlier this year, Governor Josh Shapiro signed amendments to Pennsylvania’s Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (BPINA) into law, which go into effect on September 26. As part of the implementation of these...more

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Data Breach Notification Law Update: Texas

Texas amended its data breach notification law to significantly tighten the deadline for notifying the state attorney general (AG) of a data breach affecting 250 or more state residents. Senate Bill 768, which amended Section...more

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Texas Joins Other States With New Texas Data Breach Notification Requirement: Is This A New Trend?

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The Texas Legislature, which meets every other year, pushed a change to its data breach notification law at the end of the session in late May, and yesterday Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill into law...more

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NYAG Reaches Settlement with Dunkin’ Over Cyberattacks

On September 15, 2020, the New York Attorney General (NYAG) reached a Consent and Stipulation Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Dunkin’ Brand’s Inc. a year after filing a lawsuit over the company’s response to cyberattacks in...more

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New York's Deadline to Comply With New Data Privacy Law Fast Approaching

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The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (known as the SHIELD Act), signed into law by Governor Cuomo last year, comes into full effect on March 21, 2020. The Act’s expansive reach requires businesses in New...more

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States’ Data Breach Notification Statute Amendments in Quarters 3-4 of 2019

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From late June 2019 through mid-October 2019, a handful of states amended their data breach notification statutes. Specifically, six states amended their states to (1) require notice to the State Attorney General, (2) broaden...more

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New York Increases Breach Notification and Security Responsibilities

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New York State has enacted S5575, the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (“SHIELD Act”). This new law amends New York General Business Code 899-aa and adds Section 899-bb to significantly expand consumer...more

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CCPA Security FAQs: Do businesses have to report data breaches to the state of California?

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Sometimes. While the CCPA does not require that companies report data breaches to the state of California, California’s data breach notification statute, enacted in 2003, requires that some data breaches that involve...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Illinois Joins States Requiring Breach Notice to AG

Illinois has updated its breach notice law to require, effective January 1, 2020, notice to the Illinois Attorney General of a data breach involving more than 500 Illinois residents. The law contains specific requirements...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Texas Amends State Breach Notification Law and Creates Advisor Council to Study Privacy Laws

Businesses in Texas that own or license computerized data will expect a shortened data breach notification deadline for any breach of sensitive personal information after January 1, 2020. Meanwhile, reporting to state...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Texas Breach Law Will Change in 2020, To Require Attorney General Notification

New requirements to the Texas data breach statute, including a requirement to notify the Texas attorney general of a breach, are set to go into effect January 1, 2020. The legislation, signed by Texas Governor, Greg Abbot, on...more

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CCPA: Consumers and the Right to Sue

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) is a California privacy law that gives consumers, defined as natural persons residing in California, affirmative rights with respect to their data privacy. Namely, the CCPA...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

US State Breach Law Modifications Begin in 2019 with Massachusetts

Massachusetts’ breach notice law has been amended, requiring companies who suffer a data breach to provide more information to the Attorney General about the incident. The law will go into effect in a month, on April 11,...more

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States Taking Actions Against Health IT Companies Over Data Breaches

Twelve state attorneys general have brought suit against two medical Information Technology companies. The AGs allege that the companies, Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC, had poor...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

US Breach Laws Are Coming: Iowa

As we approach 2019, companies will want to keep in mind the changes that are coming to various US states’ breach notice laws. On January 1, 2019 Iowa’s law, which has already been amended twice since it was passed in 2008,...more

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