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The federal government may be completely unable to pass laws, but that certainly isn’t the case with the State of California, which has just completed a data privacy hat trick by passing three significant laws addressing a broad subset of data privacy issues.

On Wednesday, the House Homeland Security Committee passed a substitute bill for H.R. 3696, the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013.

The FTC has announced that it has unanimously approved the knowledge-based authentication method proposed by Imperium, LLC as a COPPA-compliant method of obtaining verifiable parental consent.

Cynthia Larose discusses the steps companies can take to prepare and protect themselves from a potential data breach.

Cynthia Larose takes companies through responding to a data breach.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ attempt to bring an enforcement action against Delta Air Lines, Inc. won’t be leaving the runway.

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

Following up on our post yesterday on the disturbing practice of employers requesting — and sometimes requiring — both employees and prospective employees to hand over social networking passwords — Facebook has something to say about this.

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An employee — former employee — of the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services found out the hard way after transferring the information of more than 228,000 Medicaid beneficiaries to his personal email account.

Despite some courts' evident confusion about the impact of payment card theft on consumer cardholders, other courts are getting it right. Just this week, a judge in the Northern District of Illinois issued...

After a brief hiatus for the holidays and our "12 Days of Privacy" series, we are back.

If you haven't already got December 27th on your calendar, it's the deadline for updating your documentation for transfers of personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to...

(LONDON) As widely expected, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) voted today in favor of a revised, even tougher draft of the Data Protection Regulation that will (if finally adopted) replace the EU’s current laws regarding the collection and use of personal data of EU residents.

Nearly as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning, the recent theft of 6.5 million LinkedIn user passwords has resulted in the filing of a class action lawsuit in a California federal court.

Navigant recently published the latest update of its comprehensive Information Security and Data Breach Report, which adds yet another analytic view of the data breach picture.

As previewed in Mintz's earlier post, New York City's Biometric Identifier Information Law (the "NYC Law") is now in force, effective Friday, July 9th.

As we've written here and here, New York City's Biometric Identifier Information Law (the "NYC Law") is now in force, effective Friday, July 9th.