Craig Hoffman and Charlie Shih write: One of the first questions companies ask us when we are hired to help them respond to a new security incident is how fast they have to notify if the investigation shows that a “breach” occurred. Except for a couple of states that require notification to occur no later…
Category: Breach Laws
Wyndham submits new data security and breach bills to support motion to dismiss FTC complaint
Will Judge Ester Salas ever get to rule in FTC v. Wyndham? I had hoped the court would issue a ruling on Wyndham’s motion to dismiss shortly after the November oral argument on the motion, but here we are three months later, and both sides are still introducing supplemental authorities to bolster their respective positions….
Senators Blumenthal, Markey Introduce Bill To Protect Consumer Information From Hackers
On February 4, Senators Markey and Blumenthal issued this press release about legislation they’re introducing: Today, ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on a recent spate of data breaches, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced the Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act, a bill that would help protect consumers’…
Senators Introduce Bill to Protect Against Data Breaches
Press release issued by Sen. Dianne Feinstein yesterday: Four senior senators today introduced legislation that would, for the first time, provide a federal standard for companies to safeguard consumers’ personal information throughout their systems and to quickly notify consumers if those systems are breached. The Data Security and Breach Notification Act was introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein…
U.S. companies allowed to delay disclosure of data breaches
There’s really nothing new in here that regular readers of this blog won’t know already, but Karen Freifeld reports: A decade of lawmaking by U.S. states to ensure consumers are told when their data has been hacked still lets companies such as Target Corp wait weeks or even months to disclose security breaches. Forty-six of…
Data Theft? Fox Rothschild Launches Data Breach 411 iPhone/iPAD App
A law firm has created an app to help counsel comply with the myriad state data breach notification requirements. From their press release: Features of the Fox data breach app include: State Security Breach Statutes: An alphabetical listing of the 46 states that have data breach laws in place and links to all the relevant notification…