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California may likely soon join the growing list of states to require data breach notifications to be required within a certain amount of time – in this case, 30 calendar days. In recent years, many states have moved to...more
A flurry of legislative activity over the past year has brought meaningful changes to a variety of privacy and security provisions in state and federal law. At the state level, as in 2022, we have seen a handful of changes to...more
I’ve written quite a bit during the past year about cybersecurity, urging lawyers to take seriously their obligations to protect client confidential information and to be judicious when acquiring technology and services that...more
As more and larger data breaches come to light, states continue to update and expand their breach notification statutes, adding to the patchwork of notification obligations that now exists in every state. Generally speaking,...more
As Congress continues to wrestle with federal privacy legislation, the states have been lining up alternative proposals. North Carolina has introduced its own bipartisan bill. The bill, H.B 904, will not pass this year. Even...more
New York’s state legislature is considering a new data privacy law that would set the standard for data privacy in the U.S. The New York Privacy Act (the “NYPA” or the “Act”), which is currently being considered by the state...more
Early last year, I posted about tougher, bi-partisan privacy and data security legislation in the works in North Carolina. North Carolina State Representative Jason Saine (R), Senior Appropriations Chair, teamed-up with North...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
On the heels of the ransomware that had the City of Atlanta scrambling last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the launch of “NYC Secure,” a free mobile app that will alert New York City residents of...more
On March 1, 2018, the Alabama Senate unanimously passed the Alabama Data Breach Notification Act of 2018 (SB 318). On March 22, 2018, the House of Representatives, following an amendment by the Technology and Research...more
The last two states which have not passed data breach notification laws are Alabama and South Dakota. Sometimes we make jokes about these states as they are so late to the data breach notification table (California was the...more
What would companies need to do to comply with the law? The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act imposes requirements in two areas: cybersecurity and data breach notification. The cybersecurity...more
Any entity that does business in these states or maintains confidential information of their residents should monitor the proposed data breach legislation discussed below: Oregon, New York, Alabama, and Rhode Island....more
The year was 2005. The iPhone was still two years away. Facebook was still a niche product. Tweeting was a birds-only activity. And North Carolina was one of the first states in the union to enact a data breach notification...more
In a post-Equifax environment, state-level data security regulation is on the rise. And in many instances, state regulatory regimes are getting tougher....more
A bipartisan group of Colorado legislators proposed legislation that, if enacted, would significantly change the requirements for how Colorado entities protect, transfer, secure, and dispose of documents containing “personal...more
A North Carolina bill designed to strengthen the state’s data breach notification statute could radically change incident response. Through the Act to Strengthen Identity Theft Protections, North Carolina could quickly become...more
Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring notice of a data breach to potentially affected individuals. Alabama may soon join the crowd. Bills creating the Alabama Information Protection Act of...more