From Hunton & Williams: Haim Ravia and Dotan Hammer of Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz recently published an article outlining Israel’s new Protection of Privacy Regulations (“Regulations”), passed by the Knesset on March 21, 2017. The Regulations will impose mandatory comprehensive data security and breach notification requirements on anyone who owns, manages or maintains a…
Category: Breach Laws
Virginia Adds Notification Requirements for Payroll Incidents to Breach Law
Liisa M. Thomas, Robert H. Newman, and Eric J. Shinabarger of Winston Strawn LLP write: With little fanfare, Virginia recently amended its data breach notification law, requiring employers and payroll service providers to notify the Virginia Attorney General if they are subject to a W2 phishing scam. More specifically, the law requires that they notify…
Companies Now Face Israel Data Security, Breach Notice Rules
Jenny David reports: Companies doing business in Israel will soon face mandatory data security and data breach notification requirements under regulations recently cleared by lawmakers. The data security and breach notice had been governed by voluntary guidelines issued in 2012 by the country’s privacy regulator, the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority (ILITA). Companies that didn’t implement…
NM: Data Breach Notification Passes Senate Committee
Carol A. Clark writes: This afternoon, the Senate Public Affairs Committee unanimously passed House Bill 15, known as the Data Breach Notification Act. The legislation is sponsored by Republican Rep. Bill Rehm of Bernalillo. House Bill 15 would require businesses and other entities to implement reasonable procedures to protect the personal information of consumers. The…
Missouri proposal requires schools to tell you when child’s information stolen
Stephanie Garland reports: Right now the state auditor said hackers can steal your sensitive information and school districts do not have to tell you. That could change this August before some schools start. […] If passed, a new bill would change that and require school districts to report data breaches to parents and the government….
Will a Pending OCR Rule Impact Breach Class-Action Suits?
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee A pending federal regulation – called for under the HITECH Act – that would allow regulators to share with breach victims money collected in HIPAA violation cases eventually could have implications in class-action breach lawsuits, says privacy attorney Adam Greene. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights “is working on a new…