The SmartEdgeLaw Group is happy to announce its participation in the upcoming Sept 29, 2015 IAPP KnowledgeNet to be held at the Hartford Convention Center in conjunction with the 2015 Information Governance Conference. Attendance at the KnowledgeNet is free of charge, but registration is required. IAPP members can received a 15% discount for the full InfoGovCon15 […]
Tag: Data Breach Legislation
Slew of State Data Breach Statutes in the Works
In the past two weeks we’ve reviewed proposed amendments or new data breach notification statutes from nearly a dozen states, including, Wyoming, Connecticut, Oregon, Hawaii, North Dakota, Montana, New York, and the data breach holdouts of New Mexico and Alabama. Stay tuned for our summaries. In short, though, AG notification is coming big time.
Then there were 47… Kentucky enacts data breach statute
Since 2010 the number of states with data breach notification statutes was stalled at 46. No longer. Kentucky is now the 47th state to enact a data breach notification statute, effective July 14, 2014. Kentucky’s new data breach notification statute, appearing in Ken. Rev. Stat. Chapter 365 (as amended by H.B. 232 on April 10, […]
Two Northeast States Update Breach Notification Statutes – CT & VT
While well known in information security circles that today 46 states, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have enacted data breach notification statutes these statutory regimes aren’t fixed in granite. Last year, to name a few, California, Illinois and Texas amended their respective breach notification statutes (with Texas purporting to extend its notification law […]
Blumenthal Bill Bumps Up Big Fines for Data Thefts and Security Breaches
Late last week Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced a one-hundred page bill, dubbed the Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act of 2011, S.1535, (the “PDPBA Act”), referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, that if ultimately passed would levy significant penalties for identify theft and other “violations of data privacy and security,” criminalize as felonies […]
