This week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and ten states settled charges against the Florida-based cruise line, Caribbean Cruise Line, Inc. (CCL), for an illegal telemarking campaign that inundated consumers with billions of unwanted robocalls. In settling these charges, CCL’s owner, Fred Accuardi, and all of his companies are barred from robocalling and illegal telemarketing.
Tennessee
Mapco Express pays $1.9 Million in Data Breach Settlement
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
A Tennessee federal judge has approved a proposed settlement of up to $1.9 million to be paid by Mapco Express to individuals affected by a payment card data breach that occurred in 2013.
Two banks alleged that Mapco had lax security measures, which caused the breach causing the banks to reissue payment cards to affected…
O’Charley’s diners warned of payment card data breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
Diners who used credit and debit cards at the Tennessee based O’Charley’s restaurants between March 18, 2016, and April 8, 2016, were notified by O’Charley’s of a data breach that affected its point of sale systems. Consumers were also warned by the Georgia Attorney General, who suggested that consumers who dined at the chain monitor…
Telemedicine nursing licensure compact legislation enacted in 6 states and 7 more right behind
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Health Information Privacy
In another case of technology out pacing the law, telemedicine has continued to push the limits of state medical professional licensure laws.
Generally, physicians and nurses must be licensed in the state in which they are practicing; and yet technology has become so sophisticated that telemedicine is allowing those medical providers to provide access to…