Privacy & Security Matters

Recently, a new bill was signed by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, creating far reaching new requirements for entities that collect or maintain personal identifying information of Colorado r...

https://www.privacyandsecuritymatters.com/2018/06/colorado-passes-far-reaching-new-privacy-and-cybersecurity-law/

If you glance at the “countdown clock” in the left hand sidebar of our blog, you’ll see that it has reached 00:00:00.  GDPR Day is here.   But, unlike Y2K (for those of you old enough to...

https://www.privacyandsecuritymatters.com/2018/05/happy-gdpr-day/

We are now in the 10-day countdown to the GDPR enforcement date that we’ve been talking about since 2015.   If you are a charter member of Procrastinators Anonymous, or just secretly hoped th...

https://www.privacyandsecuritymatters.com/2018/05/still-thinking-about-gdpr/

Answering the centuries’ old question, it appears it is the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) that watches the watchmen. The FTC sent warning letters to a pair of foreign app developers caut...

https://www.privacyandsecuritymatters.com/2018/05/ftc-puts-kids-smart-watch-companies-in-time-out-for-coppa-violation/

A challenge to the use of a cy pres charitable donations to settle privacy claims against Google will be heard by the Supreme Court.  In Frank v. Gaos, petitioners seek reversal of lower court d...

https://www.privacyandsecuritymatters.com/2018/05/supreme-court-to-review-use-of-charitable-donation-to-settle-privacy-claims-against-google/

With the recent enactment of data breach notification laws in South Dakota and Alabama, all 50 US states now have laws regulating data breach notification.   We’ve updated the Mintz Matrix (m...

https://www.privacyandsecuritymatters.com/2018/04/mintz-matrix-updated-data-breach-laws-in-all-50-states/

Uber Technologies, Inc. (“Uber”) has agreed to an expansion of its initial August 2017 proposed consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), in light of revelations of an ...

https://www.privacyandsecuritymatters.com/2018/04/failure-to-signal-uber-forced-to-accept-expanded-settlement-after-concealing-security-breach-from-ftc/

Facebook has recently chosen to no longer fund opposition to the California Consumer Privacy Act, which could appear on the California State Ballot as an initiated state statute on November 6, 20...

https://www.privacyandsecuritymatters.com/2018/04/facebook-stops-funding-opposition-to-california-privacy-focused-ballot-act/

As the clock ticks down to May 25, 2018, when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) becomes fully enforceable throughout the EU, the Internet and airwaves have be...

https://www.privacyandsecuritymatters.com/2018/04/will-the-gdpr-ease-cross-border-data-transfers-for-purposes-of-e-discovery/

Alabama has joined the “crazy quilt” of state data breach notification laws with the governor’s signature of the Alabama Data Breach Notification Act of 2018. Things to take note of under t...

https://www.privacyandsecuritymatters.com/2018/04/alabama-becomes-50th-state-to-enact-data-breach-notification-law/