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Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Blog Posts From August 2019
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Blog: Legislative Alert: New York Expands Data Breach Obligations for Credit Reporting Agencies
Date: August 15, 2019
Title: Legislative Alert: New York Expands Data Breach Obligations for Credit Reporting Agencies
Summary: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law Senate Bill S3582, which further expands obligations owed to consumers when a data security breach affects a credit reporting agency. ...
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Blog: Legislative Alert: New York Amends Its Data Breach Notification Law
Date: August 12, 2019
Title: Legislative Alert: New York Amends Its Data Breach Notification Law
Summary: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act, Senate Bill 5575B/Assembly Bill 5635B. The SHIELD Act updates the state’s existing data breach notification law, N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 899-aa, and creates a new section, § 899-bb, requiring reasonable data security for “private information” and granting enforcement powers to the attorney general against non-compliant entities....