Mark your calendars: Upcoming events with Mintz Levin privacy attorneys Boston, Thursday, May 2, 2013, New England Legal Foundation – Cyber Security: Advising Corporate Leaders on Critical Risk Issues Everywhere, Thursday, May 2, 2013, CBIZ MHM/Mintz Levin Webinar, Outsourcing Services to a Third Party: Privacy Impacts and Service Organization Control Reporting Seattle, WA, Friday, May 10,… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: April 2013
About California’s Right to Know Act of 2013 – What, Me Worry?
Posted in Privacy RegulationWritten by Jake Romero If you got Google, Facebook and Microsoft into a room and asked them to compile a list of things that they are most afraid of, that list would probably look something like this: Bees Getting into a Twitter fight with a Justin Bieber fan California’s Right to Know Act of 2013… Continue Reading
Data Breach at Gunpoint
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Identity TheftWritten by Amy Malone You might think that if you lock your backup tapes in a safe they are protected from a data breach, but Kmart’s recent data breach proves that’s not the case. Last month, a person held a Kmart employee in Little Rock, Arkansas at gun point and ordered him to open the… Continue Reading
War of Words Regarding Implementation of Amendments to COPPA – UPDATE
Posted in Children, Federal Trade Commission, Privacy RegulationUPDATE — The Federal Trade Commission has published its promised COPPA FAQs here. Volley #1 – Trade Associations to FTC: Please Delay! The long-awaited amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) have been the subject of much discussion and debate. Last week, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Edith Ramirez received letters… Continue Reading
EU Data Protection Regulation: Looming closer . . .
Posted in European Union, LegislationWritten by Susan Foster, Solicitor England & Wales/Admitted in California (LONDON) The draft of the new Data Protection Regulation, the first EU privacy law with highly serious teeth in the form of fines based on global turnover, continues to wend its way through various committees of the European Parliament (EP). The European Parliament recently pushed… Continue Reading
A heartfelt “thank you”
Posted in UncategorizedMintz Levin was founded in 1933 in Boston, and our largest office is located here. Since Monday evening, we have received countless expressions of concern and support from clients, colleagues and friends around the world. For that, we thank you. We also want to take this opportunity to cross-post from our Health Law Policy Matters blog… Continue Reading
“Red Flag” Compliance Requirements Come to Investment Advisors, Broker-Dealers – UPDATE
Posted in Data Compliance & Security, Identity Theft, Privacy RegulationUPDATE: We have prepared a detailed Client Alert as a guide to getting started with these new Red Flag Rules and compliance obligations. You can read it here. It has been several years since the Federal Trade Commission’s Red Flag Rule took effect; and the banking regulators have had the Red Flag… Continue Reading
D.C. Developments on the Cybersecurity Front – UPDATE
Posted in CybersecurityWritten by Cynthia Larose and Heidi Lawson UPDATE: The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) this afternoon. The vote was 18 in favor and two (Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)) against. For more information, read The Hill. The last 24 hours have seen… Continue Reading
Yet Another Zip Code Class Action Filed in Massachusetts
Posted in Class Action Litigation, Privacy LitigationWritten by Amy Malone Earlier this month, we reported on the privacy case against craft giant Michaels Stores (see our blog post here, as well as our client alert here) in which the plaintiff alleged that Michaels illegally collected zip codes during credit card transactions. The case was ultimately dismissed by the federal district court,… Continue Reading
Cybersecurity Disclosure: A Panel Discussion with the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance
Posted in Cybersecurity, Data BreachLast week in Washington, D.C., this author had the opportunity to sit in on a panel discussion by the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (“CorpFin”) discussing, among other things, recent developments in cybersecurity disclosure in public company filings. The panel included CorpFin’s Acting Director Lona Nallengara, Deputy Director of Disclosure Operations Shelley Parratt and others from CorpFin…. Continue Reading
EU versus Google: A test case for the viability of a global data protection policy?
Posted in European Union, Privacy RegulationWritten by Susan Foster, Solicitor England & Wales/Admitted in California (LONDON) The EU has escalated its existing investigation of Google’s global privacy policy, a policy covering all of Google’s services that was introduced by Google last year. Up until April 3, the French data protection authority, CNIL, had effectively been tasked with engaging with Google… Continue Reading
Hannaford Data Breach Class Action Certification: Denied
Posted in Class Action Litigation, Data Breach, Privacy LitigationWritten by Kevin McGinty Damages issues continue to bedevil would-be data breach class action plaintiffs. A long and growing line of cases holds that consumers cannot maintain claims arising from theft of their personal or financial data without alleging that the theft resulted in financial injury. One notable exception to this trend was the First… Continue Reading
