Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced on October 21, 2024, that his office has settled a data breach case against Guardian Analytics, Inc. for $500,000. The data breach affected the personal information of 157,629 Connecticut residents. The CT AG alleged that Guardian Analytics failed to implement reasonable and appropriate data security across its systems and
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Privacy Tip #394 – Colorado Amends Privacy Law to Include Neurodata
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed H.B. 24-01058 into law on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The law amends the definition of personal information protected by the state’s privacy law to include protections for data generated by activity in the nervous system. The intent of the law is to require companies that collect, use, and disclose consumers’…
Flying with Your Data – ACLU sues the TSA Over Domestic Electronic Device Searches
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
If you’ve flown domestically in the last year, you know the drill. Take off your jacket, belt, and shoes and place them in a bin. Remove your quart-sized bag of 3.4 oz liquids and place them on top. Pull out your laptop, iPad, e-reader, gaming device, and any other electronic device larger than a cell…
JHUISI Creates New Way to Protect Drones from Cyber-attacks
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Drones
OnBoard Security, a Wilmington, Massachusetts-based security provider, announced last week that graduate students from Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) have successfully implemented a secured type of sense-and-avoid (SAA) technology for drones to prevent mid-air collisions that is not as vulnerable to cyber-attacks as other prior SAA technologies. The JHUISI team knew that they…
Preparing for a SharePoint 2016 migration
By Jim Merrifield on
Posted in Digital Assets, Information Governance
Many organizations are considering an update to their existing SharePoint environment in 2016. This is largely due to new functionalities being offered with SharePoint 2016, especially if the organization is still running SharePoint 2010 or later. With that said, a well thought out migration strategy is key to the success of this project.
Let’s consider…