Parental Control Software Developer to Pay $100,000 for Children’s Privacy...
On September 15, 2010, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a $100,000 settlement with EchoMetrix, a developer of parental control software that monitors children’s online activity....
View ArticleStates Attempt to Address Privacy Risks Associated with Digital Copiers and...
As reported in BNA’s Privacy Law Watch, on April 1, 2011, a New York law went in effect requiring manufacturers of certain electronic equipment, including devices that have hard drives capable of...
View ArticleOnline Tracking Practices Face Increasing Scrutiny
Over the past several weeks, online tracking practices involving the use of Flash cookies and ETags have been the subject of new research studies, class action lawsuits and significant media attention....
View ArticlePrivacy Attorneys Receive New York Super Lawyers Honors
Hunton & Williams LLP is pleased to announce that several privacy attorneys were named to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list for 2012. For the seventh consecutive year, Lisa J. Sotto, partner...
View ArticleParental Control Software Developer to Pay $100,000 for Children’s Privacy...
On September 15, 2010, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a $100,000 settlement with EchoMetrix, a developer of parental control software that monitors children’s online activity....
View ArticleStates Attempt to Address Privacy Risks Associated with Digital Copiers and...
As reported in BNA’s Privacy Law Watch, on April 1, 2011, a New York law went in effect requiring manufacturers of certain electronic equipment, including devices that have hard drives capable of...
View ArticleOnline Tracking Practices Face Increasing Scrutiny
Over the past several weeks, online tracking practices involving the use of Flash cookies and ETags have been the subject of new research studies, class action lawsuits and significant media attention....
View ArticleU.S. Court Rules Microsoft Must Release User Data Stored Overseas
On April 25, 2014, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Microsoft must release user data to U.S. law enforcement when issued a search warrant, even if the...
View ArticleNew York Banking Regulator Announces New Cybersecurity Assessment Process
On December 10, 2014, the New York State Department of Financial Services (the “Department”) announced that it issued an industry guidance letter to all Department-regulated banking institutions that...
View ArticlePlaintiffs File Class Action Lawsuit Against Nielsen Over Alleged False and...
On August 28, 2018, plaintiffs filed a class action lawsuit against Nielsen Holdings PLC (“Nielsen”) and some of its officers and directors for making allegedly materially false and misleading...
View ArticleAOL Successor Agrees to Pay $4.95 Million in COPPA Enforcement Action
On December 4, 2018, the New York Attorney General (“NY AG”) announced that Oath Inc., which was known as AOL Inc. (“AOL”) until June 2017 and is a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc., agreed to...
View ArticleFTC Proposes Changes to GLB Privacy and Safeguards Rules
On March 5, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is seeking comment on proposed changes to the FTC’s Safeguards Rule and Privacy Rule under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”). The...
View ArticleNew York Amends Breach Notification Law
On July 25, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law Senate Bill S5575B (the “Bill”), an amendment to New York’s breach notification law (the “Act”). The Bill expands the Act’s definition...
View ArticleNew York City Considers Prohibition on Sharing Location Data
On July 23, 2019, New York City Council members introduced Int. 1632-2019 (the “Bill”), an amendment to the administrative code of New York City that would prohibit telecommunications carriers and...
View ArticleSenator Gillibrand Proposes Bill to Establish Federal Data Protection Agency
On February 12, 2020, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced a plan to create a Data Protection Agency through her proposed legislation, the Data Protection Act of 2020. According to Senator Gillibrand,...
View ArticleNew York SHIELD Act Requires Safeguards to Protect Private Information
On March 21, 2020, the data security provisions of New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (“SHIELD Act”) went into effect. The SHIELD Act requires any person or business owning...
View ArticleNY Department of Financial Services Issues Guidance to Regulated Entities...
On April 13, 2020, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) issued guidance (“April guidance”) to all New York State entities covered under NYDFS’s cybersecurity regulation regarding...
View ArticleFTC Postpones Safeguards Rule Workshop until July
As part of its regulatory review of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”) Safeguards Rule, the Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop, Information Security and Financial Institutions: An FTC...
View ArticleNYDFS Files First Cybersecurity Enforcement Action
On Wednesday, July 22, the New York Department of Financial Services (the “NYDFS”) announced that it had filed administrative charges against First American Title Insurance Co. under the NYDFS...
View ArticleHome Depot Agrees to Pay $17.5 Million in Multistate Settlement Following...
On November 24, 2020, a multistate coalition of Attorneys General announced that The Home Depot, Inc. (“Home Depot”) agreed to pay $17.5 million and implement a series of data security practices in...
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