Recently released data from the FBI shows that Pennsylvania led the country in ransomware losses for 2020 — more than $5 million in losses. Across the nation, the number of cyberattacks has risen and all businesses have been impacted by these crimes. There could be a direct correlation between the apparent gap in data
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Issue Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine sued Google on January 24 for its deceptive location tracking practices in violation of D.C.’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act. AG Racine opened an investigation into this issue after a 2018 Associated Press article exposed Google’s data practice of tracking users even after the “location history” setting was toggled
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By Krishna Jani, Flaster Greenberg On Nov. 30, 2021, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the resolution of five investigations in its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of Access Initiative. This brings the total number of this type of
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By Krishna Jani, Flaster Greenberg In July 2021, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) voted to approve the Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (UPDPA). The UPDPA is a model data privacy bill designed to provide a template for states to introduce to their own legislatures, and ultimately, adopt as binding law. The UPDPA The
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By Joshua A. Mooney, Kennedys The Colorado Privacy Act (“ColoPA” or “Act”) has been sent to Governor Jared Polis’s office to be signed into law, making Colorado the third state to enact comprehensive privacy legislation (coming behind California and Virginia). Once signed, the Act will take effect on July 31, 2023. However, its requirements
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