Currently, twenty states have enacted legislation to protect the collection and distribution of consumer data by third parties. However, at the moment, there are no privacy protections in place for consumers in Ohio. On July 12, 2021, Rick Carfagna and Thomas Hall...
A Brief History of the Fair Credit Reporting Act One of the earliest “privacy” laws in the United States is, surprisingly, the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Back during the Nixon Administration, Congress passed a law that gave people the right to see what was on their...
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) requires, among other things, that places of “public accommodation” be reasonably accessible to the disabled. For “physical” locations, this can mean things like braille menus, wheelchair ramps, or wider doors. But when the...
In the wake of the highly publicized attacks on both gasoline and food infrastructures by Russian-based ransomware attackers, the Biden administration on June 3 issued an advisory to business leaders directing them to take action to harden their systems against...
For more than 30 years, the federal computer hacking statute has been used by companies to sue employees (and former employees), competitors and even customers and users who violate their rules on the use of computers, computer databases and data gleaned from...
Like the Kubler-Ross stages of grief, there are multiple stages of data breach. Anger, denial, blame, investigation, litigation, regulation and, ultimately, resignation. This includes possible class action litigation by consumers, banks, vendors, suppliers or others...
One of the more common forms of cyber-attack is that of a Business E-Mail Compromise - when the email account of either a buyer or seller (or both) is compromised by a hacker who then spoofs one or both of the parties to demand or redirect payments intended to occur...
On March 15, 2021, the California Attorney General finalized modified regulations to the California Consumer Protection Act (the “CCPA”) that strengthen consumers’ ability to “opt out” of having their personal data collected, sold, or otherwise used. The California...
KJK's Mark Rasch speaks with Bank Info Security regarding recently introduced legislation that would allow Americans to sue foreign hackers. Bill Would Allow Americans to Sue Foreign Hackers By Scott Ferguson | Bank Info Security Legislation introduced in the House...
On March 2, 2021, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed the Commonwealth's first comprehensive data privacy law, the Consumer Data Protection Act. This makes Virginia the second state, after California, to do so. California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) amended by...