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Posted By Cynthia Larose on Posted in Data Breach

Our Friday afternoon feature — Virginia Adds Medical Information Breach Law - The Commonwealth of Virginia has amended its data breach notification law to include breaches of medical information. For the text of the amendment, link here. Even if the data is encrypted, the law requires notice if the breach involved a person with access… Continue Reading

Tracking the cookie crumbs

Posted By Cynthia Larose on Posted in Data Compliance & Security

Disabling cookies may not be the answer to controlling your online identity. Regardless of whether you have cookies enabled or not, Web sites collect certain amounts of operational information about your browser. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has detailed how companies can use browser-configuration information to identify users, and also launched a new project, Panopticlick, aimed… Continue Reading