by Sarah Harvey / August 13th, 2020

Because of the ever-changing landscape of privacy laws, standards, and guidelines, it has become difficult for businesses to know what their obligations are, and even harder to determine what could constitute non-compliance. Fortunately, Twitter’s mistakes now provide us with an example of what a violation looks like. Twitter has been in the spotlight for a recent hack, and now the Federal Trade Commission is investigating its privacy practices regarding targeted…

by Sarah Harvey / August 6th, 2020

The Latest With Privacy Shield On July 16, the Court of Justice for the European Union made a landmark decision to invalidate the EU-US Privacy Shield arrangement for international data transfers. Prior to this announcement, Privacy Shield was one of several mechanisms for meeting GDPR data protection requirements for data leaving the EU for the US. The Court’s decision impacts the thousands of organizations participating in and relying on Privacy…

by Sarah Harvey / March 20th, 2020

The Importance of Privacy Policies in Today’s Data-Centric Landscape It’s no secret that data is now the most valuable asset worldwide. With nearly all organizations relying on some form of data to fuel their business, consumers and policy makers have started highlighting the need to more transparent about how they collect, use, store, and transmit data, starting with their privacy policies. Because consumers have become more interested in how their…

by Sarah Harvey / December 16th, 2019

On July 25, 2019, New York Governor Cuomo signed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act which amends the state’s breach notification law in order to “impose stronger obligations on businesses handling private data to provide proper notification to affected consumers when there is a security breach.” The breach notification amendments took effect in October 2019, while the data security requirements will take effect on March 21,…