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Utah Requires Warrant for Law Enforcement Access to Certain Types of Data Posted on: April 12, 2019 In: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
On March 27, 2019, Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed House Bill (HB) 57 – known as the Electronic Information or Data Privacy Act – into law, making Utah the first state to protect information that individuals have shared with certain third parties. Among its provisions, HB 57 states that, effective May 14, 2019, law enforcement may not generally obtain certain types of “electronic information or data” for use in a criminal investigation or prosecution without first obtaining a search warrant.
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Virginia & Utah Amend Data Breach Statutes Posted on: April 09, 2019 In: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
On March 18, 2019, the commonwealth of Virginia enacted House Bill (HB) 2396, amending the commonwealth’s data breach notification statute. Specifically, HB 2396 expanded the commonwealth’s definition of “personal information” sufficient to trigger a notification obligation following a data security incident. Effective July 1, 2019, “personal information” will be defined to include both passport number and military identification number in addition to those data sets that were previously regulated.
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State of the (State) Data Breach Laws: 2017 Legislative Update, Part III Posted on: October 24, 2017 In: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
With 2017 nearing its end, the legislative activity in most state capitals has wound down and the majority of legislatures have ended their 2017 sessions. In Part I and Part II of our series, we looked at how a number of states amended or enacted data breach notification-related legislation (Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, and Tennessee).
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