Fox16 reports: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge today sent an advisory letter to medical licensees throughout Arkansas about their duty to report a data breach under the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). The PIPA reporting guidelines, amended in July 2019, mandate that individuals, agencies and businesses notify the Attorney General’s Office at the same time as affected…
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Texas Updates Data Breach Notification Requirements
Gregory Bautista and William Douglas Sanders of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP write: Effective January 1, 2020, the Texas legislature will impose new notification requirements on businesses that maintain personal information of customers. House Bill 4390 amends the Texas Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act by requiring that Texas residents be notified of…
Massachusetts Senator Introduces Legislation Imposing Obligations on Data Brokers
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., has introduced a bill (S. 2577) imposing considerable obligations on data brokers regarding their handling of personal information. Key provisions: […] Upon a verified request, disclose to the requesting individual information about the information collected, time of collection, who it was shared with and how…
California Amends Breach Notification Law
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On October 11, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 1130, which expands the types of personal information covered by California’s breach notification law to include, when compromised in combination with an individual’s name: (1) additional government identifiers, such as tax identification number, passport number, military identification number, or other…
South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which was Funded by Bitcoin
From the Department of Justice: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, October 16, 2019 South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which was Funded by Bitcoin Dozens of Minor Victims Who Were Being Actively Abused by the Users of the Site Rescued Jong Woo Son,…
California Passes Several Amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act
Dorian Simmons of Alston & Bird writes: The California legislature passed several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100 to 1798.190) (the “CCPA”) on September 13, 2019. (See our previous blog posts here: Which CCPA Amendments Made the Cut? and Potential Changes to the CCPA; California Senate Considers…