With last week’s further revisions to the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law [Massachusetts Amends Its Strict Data Privacy Law (Yet, Again)], people are wondering if the federal government is going to step into the space and create a national standard. Most states have enacted some form of data breach or data privacy law, crating patchwork of [...]
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Massachusetts Amends Its Strict Data Privacy Law (Yet, Again)
Massachusetts has revised its data privacy regulations one more time. The revised regulations are less demanding that the original version released over a year ago. But this law is the strictest in the country and will be the de facto law of the land for many companies. Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation released [...]
Privacy on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Here is the United States we are mostly talking about financial information and medical information when it comes to privacy and data security. The state data privacy laws focus on social security numbers and financial account information. HIPPA created a federal regulatory regime for medical information. Europe has been focused less on financial information and [...]
Massachusetts Amends Strict Data Privacy Law (Again)
UPDATE: Another revision was published on November 5, 2009. See: Massachusetts Amends Its Strict Data Privacy Law (Yet, Again) The Massachusetts’ Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation has decided to amend the strict data privacy law and extend the deadline for compliance. This is yet another amendment to the regulations. The last amendment had [...]
National Data Privacy Law Proposed
With a multitude of states trying to protect their citizens when it comes to breaches of personal data security, it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage compliance with this patchwork of laws. The Data Accountability and Trust Act (H.R. 2221) proposed in Congress proposed to preempt state laws and make regulation of data security a [...]
Webinar Materials for: Preparing for the strictest privacy law in the nation
As a follow up to Wednesday’s lunchtime webinar sponsored by Knowledge Management Associates, I wanted to post some materials for those of you that missed it and for those looking for notes and details. The slidedeck: KMA Insights Webinar July 2009 — Compliance with MA Privacy Law View more presentations from Knowledge Management Associates, LLC. [...]
Preparing for the strictest privacy law in the nation: MA Privacy Law 201 CMR 17
Join me for a webinar on the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law. Knowledge Management Associates, LLC is sponsoring a webinar on Preparing for the Strictest Privacy Law in the Nation: MA Privacy Law 201 CMR 17. I will provide an overview of the law. Roberty Boonstra will share some of his best practices around implementation and compliance [...]
Amendment to Mass. Data Privacy Law
Goodwin Procter has published a client alert describing the amendments to the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law (my posts on this topic). They detail three changes. First is pushing bck the complaince deadline to January 1, 2010. Second, theyhave lifted some of the contract amendments and certifications from vendors. Third, they clarified the wireless encryption requirement. [...]
Decoding the Science of Compliance — Are you Ready for 201 CMR 17.00?
Compliance Week broadcast a webcast on the new Massachusetts data privacy regulations: Decoding the Science of Compliance — Are you Ready for 201 CMR 17.00? (and sponsored by Iron Mountain). Garry Watzke, Esq., Senior Vice President Legal & Business Development at Iron Mountain, Inc. started with the basics which I have noted in several other [...]
Data Breach at Heartland Payment Systems
Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) disclosed that intruders hacked into the computers it uses to process 100 million payment card transactions per month for 175,000 merchants. The company said it couldn’t estimate how many customer records have been compromised, but said the data compromised include the information on a card’s magnetic strip that could be used [...]
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