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White House Posts Preliminary Cybersecurity Incentives 22 Aug 2013 | 08:37 am
Jessica Goldenberg In February of 2013, President Obama signed an executive order with the purpose of creating a cybersecurity framework (or set of voluntary standards and procedures) to encourage p....
A $1.2 Million Photocopier Mistake: Health Plan Settles with HHS in HIPAA Breach Case 20 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
Ryan Blaney We have heard the well-publicized stories of stolen laptops and resulting violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and we generally recognize...
Honoring Do-Not-Track Browser Signals 15 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
Carly Ziegler We’re all familiar with the ads that pop up on the side of our browsers, personalized to highlight things we might be interested in based on our web browsing activity. Marketers and ad...
CNIL Cracks Down on Employee Video Monitoring and Password Strength 6 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
Cecile Martin In a recent decision (deliberation CNIL May 30, 2013 n°2013-139), the French Data Protection Agency (CNIL) sanctioned a company for implementing a CCTV system without informing employee...
Texas Says You’re All on Notice by Amending its Data Breach Notification Law 31 Jul 2013 | 08:04 pm
Charley Lozada Texas recently amended its data breach notification law, Tex BC. Code Ann. § 521.053, to clarify that if a data subject is a resident of a state other than Texas that has its own breac...
IN FRANCE, ARE EMPLOYERS ENTITLED TO ACCESS THEIR EMPLOYEES’ PERSONAL EMAILS? 24 Jul 2013 | 07:29 pm
Cecile Martin In France, the guiding principle is that emails received or sent by an employee through the employer’s company email account are considered “professional”, which means that the employer...
NY Court of Appeals Permits Warrantless GPS Tracking of Government Employees 10 Jul 2013 | 08:59 pm
Kevin Khurana On June 27, 2013, the NY Court of Appeals held that the state can use GPS tracking to monitor its employees during working hours without a warrant. Click here to read Proskauer’s Emplo...
California Court of Appeal Says Chevron Can Collect ZIP Code Information for Pay-at-the-Pump Transactions 2 Jul 2013 | 07:46 am
Mira Serrill-Robins On June 20, 2013, the California Court of Appeal affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action which alleged that Chevron violated California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (“...
Rise of the Genome 14 Jun 2013 | 07:39 pm
David Munkittrick We pack tons of personal and sensitive information in our DNA. While the human genome has been mapped for a decade, legal issues of genetic privacy are just beginning to rise. Ear...
Massachusetts Jury Finds Violation of Stored Communications Act and Massachusetts Privacy Laws 11 Jun 2013 | 09:40 pm
Amy Crafts In January 2011, David Cheng (Plaintiff) filed a lawsuit against his former co-worker and fellow radiologist, Laura Romo (Defendant), alleging a violation of the Stored Communications Act ...
