On September 27, 2013, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law an amendment to California’s breach notification law (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.82). Effective January 1, 2014, under the amended law, the definition of “Personal Information” will be expanded to include “a user name or email address, in combination with a password or security question … Continue Reading
In a draft research paper titled "Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation", three prominent scholars have collected and analyzed a sample of over 230 federal data breach lawsuits in order to deduce just what makes them tick. Romanosky, Hoffman and Acquisti examined, for example, what factual and legal characteristics made a company more likely to … Continue Reading
Cloud computing is already revolutionizing the way companies operate their businesses, in particular in the way they store and process information. But before you jump into the cloud, you may want to pause to consider your options.
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the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act preempted an identity exposure plaintiff's state law claims for, among other things, negligence, breach of contract, and violation of the New York Deceptive Trade Practices Act
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S.B. 227, which becomes effective on January 1, 2010, will require encryption of all personal information leaving the "logical or physical controls of the data collector," including electronic data on a "data storage device."
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On Saturday, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 779, legislation that would have amended California's landmark data security breach legislation. The bill would have been the first to follow law enacted by Minnesota earlier this year and effective August 1, 2007, that amended Minnesota's security breach notification law by, among other things, prohibiting businesses from retaining certain payment card data after authorization of a transaction.
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