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WEBINAR: Compliance with EU Data Protection Laws for US Companies

April 17, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

Register now for the fourth installment in our monthly 2015 Privacy Wednesday webinar series, coming up next Wednesday, April 29th at 1:00 pm ET.
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UPDATE: Target Confirms It Has Negotiated A $19 Million Data Breach Settlement With MasterCard

April 16, 2015 | Blog | By Kevin McGinty

Target confirmed a report in the Wednesday edition of The Wall Street Journal of a settlement with MasterCard concerning claims of card-issuers arising from Target’s 2013 data breach. 
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Report: Target Close To $20M Data Breach Settlement With Master Card

April 15, 2015 | Blog | By Kevin McGinty

According to a report published today in The Wall Street Journal, Target and MasterCard are close to reaching a settlement of the claims of MasterCard-issuing institutions in connection with Target’s 2013 data breach. 
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Privacy Monday - April 13, 2015

April 13, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

Spring has finally arrived on the East Coast, and not a moment too soon.
Here are 3 privacy & security bits and bytes to start your week.
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UPDATE: FTC Plans Review of YouTube Kids App

April 10, 2015 | Blog | By Peter Day, Julia Siripurapu

As we predicted in our post late last month, Google’s YouTube Kids app has attracted more than just the “curious little minds” Google was hoping for.  Yesterday, a group of privacy and children’s rights advocates (including the Center for Digital Democracy and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) asked the Federal Trade Commission “to investigate whether Google’s YouTube Kids app violates Section 5 of the FTC Act . . . .”
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Video Interview: Discussing Cross-Device Tracking on LXBN TV

April 7, 2015 | Blog | By Ari Moskowitz

Following up on my recent post on the matter, I had the opportunity to speak with Colin O'Keefe of LXBN on the subject of cross-device tracking. In the brief interview, I discuss the growing prevalence of cross-device tracking and what the FTC is doing in response.
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Privacy Monday - April 6, 2015 - Play Ball! (and other privacy-related bytes)

April 6, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose, Peter Day

Not only is it Privacy Monday - it is OPENING DAY! After this long, long winter ... welcome back baseball!
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Breaking News: Executive Order Signed Relating to "Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities"

April 1, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

President Obama today signed an Executive Order granting authority to the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to impose sanctions on individuals and entities determined to be "responsible for or complicit in malicious cyber-enabled activities" that result in harms "reasonably likely to result in, or have materially contributed to, a significant threat to the national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States."
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Responding to Insider Data Theft

March 27, 2015 | Blog

Our 2015 monthly Privacy Issues Wednesday webinar series continued this month with Jonathan Cain and Paul Pelletier's Responding to Insider Data Theft & Disclosure presentation. 
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Cross-Device Tracking: The New World

March 26, 2015 | Blog | By Ari Moskowitz, Cynthia Larose

Facebook does it. Google does it. It's everywhere in the mobile ad ecosystem. And your smartphone does it more often than you know, according to a study released on Monday by Carnegie Mellon.

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The FCC and the Uncertain Future of Privacy Oversight for Internet Service Providers

March 25, 2015 | Blog | By Ari Moskowitz

The Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) net neutrality proceeding culminated this month with the release of an Order reclassifying broadband Internet access service as a common carrier Telecommunications Service subject to regulation under Title II of the Communications Act.
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Privacy Monday - March 23, 2015: COPPA Refresh

March 23, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose, Julia Siripurapu

On Friday, the FTC published updates to the COPPA FAQs, the Commission’s compliance guide for businesses and consumers, to address the applicability of COPPA and the Amended COPPA Rule to educational institutions and businesses that provide online services, including mobile apps, to educational institutions.
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Round of 32: Social Media Policies over At-Will Employment

March 20, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

If you've been following the our sister blog, Employment Matters, then you will understand the headline. If you have not, you should click over there and check out the tournament action on a Friday afternoon while you are ... streaming some other things.
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Precedent and the Price Explain Why Target and the Consumer Class Agreed to an Early Data Breach Settlement

March 20, 2015 | Blog | By Kevin McGinty

On March 18, 2015 – just three months after denial of a motion to dismiss consumer claims arising from Target’s 2013 data breach – Target and the consumer class filed papers seeking approval of a settlement. The proposed settlement agreement creates a $10 million cash fund to be paid out to class members claiming actual damages arising from the settlement.
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Privacy Monday - March 16, 2015: Unpacking the Obama Administration's Consumer Privacy Proposal

March 16, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose, Peter Day

Taking another “step” toward developing comprehensive privacy legislation, the White House has released a discussion draft of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2015. 
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Have you filled out your brackets??

March 16, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

While we're not in the habit of driving traffic to other blogs, it is always a pleasure to point to one of our Mintz family of blogs doing some great work -- the Employment Law Matters blog is hosting  a 2015 Employment Law Issues Tournament to go along with your college basketball brackets.
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One Less Carrot for Business:  Council of European Union Limits the “One-Stop Shop” Mechanism in the Draft Data Protection Regulation

March 16, 2015 | Blog

The draft Data Protection Regulation doesn’t offer many carrots to business – and a recent announcement by the Council of the European Union takes away one of the biggest carrots, the “One-Stop Shop” mechanism.
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Next Wednesday Webinar - March 25 - Register Now

March 12, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

The third presentation in our popular Wednesday Webinar series is coming up on Wednesday, March 25th. Our presenters, Jonathan Cain and Paul Pelletier,  will offer practical advice about responding to data theft and disclosure by employees and former employees.
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State Data Breach Notification Law Updates

March 10, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose

State legislatures are not waiting for Congressional action on a national data breach notification standard.
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Privacy Monday - March 2, 2015: How is Your Cyber Resilience?

March 2, 2015 | Blog | By Cynthia Larose, Julia Siripurapu

Welcome to March (and in the Northeast, the arrival of meteorological spring is welcome indeed......)
We start this month with a question:  Have you looked at your cyber resilience?
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