Back in January, 2018, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein and state Rep. Jason Saine (R) introduced legislation called “Act to Strengthen Identity Theft Protections.” In January, 2019, they’ve reintroduced it. A press release from the Attorney General explains: Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine today unveiled legislation to strengthen North Carolina’s laws to prevent…
Category: State/Local
Massachusetts Enacts Significant Changes to Its Data Breach Notification Law
David M. Brown of Baker Hostetler writes: On Jan. 10, 2019, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed legislation that will significantly amend the state’s data breach notification law. The amendments become effective on April 11, 2019. One of the significant changes includes a new requirement to provide an offer of complimentary credit monitoring for “a period…
Ohio Moves on Insurance Cybersecurity
Josephine Cicchetti of Carlton Fields writes: Ohio has joined South Carolina in becoming the next state to adopt a variation of the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law (“MDL-668”). This legislation makes a number of changes to Ohio’s insurance law, including the addition of a new Chapter 3965, which establishes “standards for data security and…
State Data Breach Notification Laws: 2018 in Review
Caleb Skeath and Brooke Kahn of Covington & Burling provide a useful recap of changes in 2018 that will impact us in 2019: …. Following up on our global year-end review of major privacy and cybersecurity developments, we’ve summarized the major developments and trends observed with regards to state data breach notification laws over the past…
US Breach Laws Are Coming: South Carolina
Liisa M. Thomas and Shanna M. Pearce of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP write: In another change to US state breach notice laws in 2019, South Carolina will have new breach notice requirements for insurance companies. The requirements follow the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Insurance Data Security Model Law. South Carolina was the first to…
US Breach Laws Are Coming: Vermont
Liisa M. Thomas and Shanna M. Pearce of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP write: On January 1, 2019 Vermont’s breach notice law will include obligations specific to data brokers. A “data broker” is defined as a business that “knowingly collects and sells or licenses to third parties the brokered personal information of a consumer with whom…