Last week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its anticipated 122-page staff report on Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers (the “Report”), which we covered in brief here immediately following its release. In this part of our review, and in following parts, we dig into […]
Category: Data Security
New York’s Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act
Little covered other than by environmental and waste industry trade journals, New York’s legislature earlier this year passed the NYS Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act (the “Act”), which was signed into law by Governor Paterson. The Act amended various provisions of the NY Tax Law as well as adding Article 27, Title 26, Electronic […]
FAQ on the New Indiana “Abandoned Health Records” Act
Recently the Indiana legislature passed, and Indiana’s governor signed into law, Senate Enrolled Act No. 356 (a/k/a Public Law 84 of Second Regular Session 116th General Assembly 2010), a wide-ranging 71-page bill that, in addition to setting out practices and requirements for barbers, cosmetologists, well pump installers, mental health counselors and numerous other state licensed […]
Adobe eSignatures “beta” – Part 2 of 2
In Part 1 of our Adobe eSignatures review, available here, we sketched the background against which Adobe has placed its eSignatures product in the digital/electronic signature landscape. However, as currently structured, eSignatures’ beta remains very much a work in progress that will ultimately have only limited appeal unless Adobe makes significant changes to its operation, […]
Adobe eSignatures “beta” – Part 1 of 2
Like the annual return of the swallows to San Juan Capistrano, the topic of digital and other electronic forms of signatures mysteriously recurs like clockwork each year. Adobe, the makers of popular graphics and other software, including the common PDF-based family of Acrobat products, recently flew in with its own entry to the field: eSignatures […]
