Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – which works to reduce risk to America’s cyber infrastructure – is leading a collaborative effort between government and industry to raise cybersecurity awareness nationally and internationally every October during Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This campaign theme for 2022 – “See Yourself…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 1, 2022, United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement about Federal legislation under consideration called the “American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA)” and said the Act “does not guarantee the same essential consumer protections as California’s existing privacy laws.” House Speaker…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn ClearStar – a leading provider of drug testing and background screening – has been awarded recertification of the ISO 27001:2013 standard and its first certification under the ISO 27018:2019 security standard for the public cloud computing environment by the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB), a third-party certification body…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In June 2022, United States House and Senate leaders released a discussion draft of a comprehensive national data security framework called the “American Data Privacy and Protection Act,” the first privacy proposal to gain bipartisan support, according to a press release on the House Committee on Energy and…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is calling for research presentations on a wide range of privacy and data security topics such as commercial surveillance and automated decision making for its seventh annual PrivacyCon 2022 event that will take place virtually on November 1, 2022. PrivacyCon 2022 will bring…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In May 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a microblogging and social networking service with allegedly violating a 2011 FTC order that prohibited the company from misrepresenting privacy and security practices and ordered it to pay a $150 million…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On May 24, 2022, Senate Bill 1262 (SB 1262) passed in the California State Senate by a unanimous vote. If enacted, the legislation would help stop delays in criminal background checks by again allowing public access to “identifiers” used to match individuals to court records such as…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On April 19, 2022, the Michigan State Court Administrative Office (SCAO) released updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about “Personal Identifying Information in Court Filings” that addressed the general rules, orders, and standards regarding the protection of Personal Identifying Information (PII). Michigan Court Rule (MCR) 1.109(D)(9)(a) provides that…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On March 25, 2022, United States (U.S.) President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the U.S. and European Union (EU) had reached a new trans-Atlantic data flow agreement, although the agreement is in principle only at this point, according to a…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 13, 2021, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the “Empowering Public Participation Act” House Bill 1765 (HB 1765) that is designed to prevent police officers and others in law enforcement from conducting background checks on people attending and speaking at public meetings. The law took effect…
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