From Hunton Andrews Kurth: On August 3, 2018, California-based Unixiz Inc.(“Unixiz”) agreed to shut downits “i-Dressup” website pursuant to a consent order with the New Jersey Attorney General, which the company entered into to settle charges that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act. The consent orderalso…
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Vietnam’s New Cybersecurity Law and Push for Internet Sovereignty Reduces Freedom
Scott Ikeda reports: On June 12th the Vietnamese National Assembly voted in a new cybersecurity law. The legislation did not come easily having gone through more than 12 drafts and much debate in government and the business sector. The claimed purposes of the legislation are to increase Vietnam’s Internet sovereignty, that is the data of…
France: New “Data Security Kit” Published by the ANSSI
Denise Lebeau-Marianna and Caroline Chancé of DLA Piper write: …. In order to help organizations perform secure personal data processing and improve the overall digital security in France, the ANSSI has made available on its website (in French), a practical tool supplementing the French data protection supervisory authority’s (CNIL) own guidelines and recommendations on how…
Covington IoT Update: U.S. Legislative Roundup on IoT
Katharine Goodloe writes: As policymakers weigh the many policy implications associated with the Internet of Things (“IoT”), U.S. lawmakers have put forward a variety of proposals for studying—and regulating—IoT devices. Although the likelihood of current proposals becoming law this term remain uncertain at best, existing legislative proposals provide important context and insight into the ways…
A covered entity’s responsibility to monitor a business associate is…. what?
There is yet another really informative post by Jeff Drummond of Jackson Walker. This one is about a CE’s responsibility to actively monitor a BA’s compliance. Jeff writes, in part: Lexology today led me to this article by Adam Green’s crew at Davis Wright Tremaine. It turns out, there is specific language in the December…
32 state Attorneys General to Congress: Don’t replace our stronger privacy laws!
Mike Litt writes: A bipartisan group of 32 state Attorneys General, led by Illinois AG Lisa Madigan, sent a joint letter last week to the House Financial Services Committee leadership against the draft (link includes opposition testimony of Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office) “Data Acquisition and Technology Accountability and Security Act” that PIRG has also been opposing. The bill…