Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
Oregon Governor Kate Brown recently signed a new data breach reporting law (S. 1551) that toughens the state’s existing requirements.
The new law requires companies to notify individuals within 45 days after a data breach has been discovered, unless a delay in notification is requested by law enforcement. It expands the definition of personal information…
As more and more state laws allow the use of marijuana for medical conditions, and dispensaries are opening to provide users with access to marijuana for medical purposes (and recreational use), patients are questioning and becoming concerned about the protection of their privacy when purchasing marijuana in dispensaries. The concern is that federal law still outlaws marijuana, as do many states, and many employers conduct drug monitoring and may access and use data in the employment setting to terminate employees.
In response to these concerns, many states are enacting laws to protect the privacy of consumers who frequent marijuana dispensaries. For instance, Massachusetts does not require retailers to record customer information. Oregon does not allow marijuana retailers to record, retain or transfer personal information of customers of marijuana retailers.
Continue Reading Privacy Tip #107 – Medical Marijuana Privacy
Next week, on August 21, a total solar eclipse (or the alignment of the sun, moon and earth), visible from the continental U.S., will take place for the first time in 38 years. The last time this cosmic event occurred, there were no battery-powered supercomputers—smartphones—in your hand to fly a self-stabilizing, GPS-guided aircraft with a…
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…
