Please read if you are considering a donation of technology devices!! Failure to properly address stored information could expose your personal information and that of others — and could expose you and/or your company to liability under federal and state laws for non-compliance with laws regulating disposal of personal information. During the holiday season, many… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: November 2010
EchoMetrix Settles FTC Complaint Over Disclosure of Children’s Information to Marketers
Posted in Online AdvertisingThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement with EchoMetrix over charges that it failed to inform parents that information it was collecting about their children would be disclosed to third-party marketers. The company’s website says that EchoMetrix is a publicly traded systems development company that “understands and interprets content on the digital web.”… Continue Reading
Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Another Court Cautions Against Retaliating Against Employees Who Report Data Security Concerns
Posted in Data Compliance & SecurityWritten by Michael Arnold, Cynthia Larose and Jennifer Rubin Recently, a California state appellate court in Cutler v. Dike, No. B210624, 2010 WL 3341663 (Cal. Ct. App. Aug. 26, 2010), upheld a jury finding that an employer illegally fired an employee because he objected to the manner in which his employer maintained its confidential patient… Continue Reading
MIT Enterprise Forum Event tonight – “You’re Being Followed”
Posted in Online AdvertisingAs part of Global Entrepreneurship Week USA, the Digital Media SIG is holding a panel discussion tonight that will be thought-provoking (or at least the panel — including your author — hopes so) and takes on the issue of online privacy as it relates to the advertising world. Tracking, following, assembling, analyzing, dicing and slicing… Continue Reading
Final regulations published on protection of genetic information
Posted in Employee PrivacyWritten by Andrew Matzkin The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued its final regulations implementing the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (“GINA”) on Tuesday. The Regulations do a nice job of explaining the real-world application of GINA, and especially how GINA may impact normal HR activities which companies may (mistakenly) assume are not covered by GINA. To… Continue Reading
Remember the old quote about “prior preparation?”
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Data Compliance & SecurityMintz Levin has prepared a State Data Breach Laws matrix to help assess obligations under state data breach notification laws in the event of a data security incident.
WellPoint Sued by Indiana AG for $300K – UPDATE
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, HIPAA/HITECH(This post is updated to include links to the Indiana Attorney General’s press release and a copy of the complaint) Back on July 1, we blogged in this space about a very large data breach experienced by health insurer WellPoint. According to WellPoint, over 470,000 individual insurance customers may have been affected by a breach that… Continue Reading
