Welcome to the Future!
This week, the 3rd Court of Appeals upheld an enforcement action against Wyndham for a series of data breaches that exposed the credit card data of 600,000 customers.
The ruling solidies the FTC’s enforcement actions. This year alone there have been more than 90 reported data security incidents.
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Add the Department of Defense to the long list of state, local and federal agencies increasing data security requirements for contractors. Procurement beware, its time to get tech savvy.
Local governments colelct volumes of data from infrastructure such as:
The data security risks:
In the political hot spot that is Denton County, Congressman Burgess noted the importance of bringing all stakeholders together on data security legislation by saying,
“I wanted to take an opportunity to hear from people who are working in the research area and the private sector and pull everyone together in a room for the morning and hear what the state of the industry is, and where they thought we might do things to improve it,” said Burgess, R-Lewisville.
The last few weeks have cemented a growing trend of activist hackers. Examples from the last year:
Expect to see more moves into the realm of politics, social issues, and corporate interests.
Only a few States prohibit kids’ personal information from being shared by schools with third party vendors, like marketers.
States working to protect student data through legislation or regulation:
CBS This Morning: How Safe is Your Kid’s Digital Data at School?
Privacy class action lawsuits in Illinois assert that Facebook violates a 2008 Illinois law protecting a peron’s biometric information with its facial recognition tagging software.
The nuts and bolts of the Illinois law:
Target has reached another tentative $67 million settlement with VISA over its 2013 data breach & is in ongoing negotiations with Mastercard.
Community banks and credit unions estimate they spent $350Million to re-issue cards after the data breach.
Target still faces a class action lawsuit from consumers.
Office of Management and Budget is setting forth data breach standards for federal contractors. The requirements include:
Details about the OMB workgroup and proposals for contract reform are…
Neiman Marcus experienced a data breach in 2013 that exposed credit card information for 350,000. And, as it is with every data breach, lawsuits ensued.
The 7th Court of Appeals answered a lingering legal and legislative issue– whether any actual injury has to occur before suit may be filed. “Chief Judge Diane Wood, who said that fear of hackers in the future is not too “speculative” for a day in court.”
The ruling is expected to apply to both pending lawsuits realted to Sony &…