As we noted earlier this year, Saks Fifth Avenue LLC, Saks Incorporated, and Lord & Taylor previously disclosed, on April 1, 2018, that some of their customers’ personal information may have been compromised in a data breach. Those companies all share the Canadian business group Hudson’s Bay Company (collectively with Lord & Taylor LLC,
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Delaware Updates its Data Breach Notification Law
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
Forty-eight states have enacted data breach notification laws, and they frequently are amended and updated. The most recent state to update its law is Delaware.
A significant change in the new law is that Delaware residents who are affected by a data breach of their personal information must be offered 12 months of free credit…
Students 16 and Over: Check Out CyberStart!
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Students 16 and over who live in Virginia, Michigan, Iowa, Hawaii, Nevada, Delaware and Rhode Island—you may be eligible to participate in a new cybersecurity skills program called CyberStart. You have to have access to the Internet and a computer to participate.
CyberStart is “a forward-thinking skills program designed to supply specialist cyber security education…
Job Seekers Beware! Data Hacked for up to 1.4 Million Illinois Residents Receiving Unemployment Benefits
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
The Illinois Department of Employment Security has revealed that somewhere between 1.2 million and 1.4 million Illinois residents who have received unemployment benefits from the State of Illinois have had their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers compromised through a hacking of its vendor’s database. The residents are those seeking jobs and using…
Oregon and Wyoming enact model digital assets law
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Digital Assets
Although numerous states have studied and introduced legislation adopting the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Accounts Act, only three have adopted it thus far. The first was Delaware, which adopted the model digital assets law on August 12, 2015, effective January 1, 2015. Oregon became the second state to adopt the uniform law, when the…
Yahoo refuses to comply with bankruptcy judge’s order to turn over email account
By Brian Wheelin on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Yahoo is objecting to a Delaware bankruptcy’s order to provide access to one of its email accounts arguing that its compliance would violate the Stored Communications Act. At issue is a Yahoo email account purported to be maintained by a subscriber named Abdullah Rasimov. The Irish Bank Resolution Corp, Ltd., the debtor in the bankruptcy,…
Florida Board of Medicine allows prescribing controlled substances through telemedicine for psychiatric treatment
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Telehealth
The Florida Board of Medicine has changed its Standards for Telemedicine Practice by allowing controlled substances to be prescribed through the use of telemedicine only for the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
Following a pilot program where three psychiatric mental health organizations were given a waiver by the Board in order to prescribe controlled substances via…
Privacy Tip #10 – What are digital assets and why should I care?
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Digital Assets, Privacy Tips
Your digital life and assets can include online music, photos, social media accounts, gaming winnings, and the like. But most of us don’t look at these items as assets that we should think about and plan for when we pass away.
But when you pass away, your heirs and/or executor has to deal with digital…
Delaware enacts a series of privacy laws
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Privacy
Delaware recently enacted four privacy laws–the Online and Personal Privacy Protection Act (DOPPA), the Student Data Privacy Protection Act (SDPPA), the Victim Online Privacy Act (VOPA) and the Employee/Applicant Protection for Social Media Act (ESMA).
DOPPA prohibits website operators from marketing material to minors that may “appeal to the prurient, shameful, or morbid interest of…