The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) officially became enforceable on July 1, 2020, and according to the California Attorney General, actual enforcement began on that very same day. Just over a year later, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has recently released a list of examples of the enforcement actions it has taken against businesses and how they were resolved.
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The push for states to create their own data privacy laws gained momentum as the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) was signed into law by Governor Ralph Northam on March 3, 2021. Strongly influenced by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the CDPA is a major piece of privacy legislation that also differs from both of those laws in a number of ways.
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Everyone remembers working on the home desktop and seeing the alert pop-up in the right-hand corner of your screen: time to upgrade your (Name Brand) antivirus software. Clicking it takes you to a web page where the company tries to upsell you on the latest enhancements to their product. Today, antivirus software (AV) or more precisely, antimalware software, is more sophisticated, and some security experts will say, begrudgingly, that tools like Windows Defender are “mostly good enough” for...
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Today, TrueVault is launching Tokenization Engine, a new feature of SecureVault, to help companies import healthcare data without the legal burden of HIPAA compliance. The Problem There is clear business value to leveraging health behavior data, but working with healthcare data can be problematic. If a company wishes to work with healthcare data, chances are this data includes Protected Health Information (PHI), a special class of data that requires compliance with HIPAA regulations because it...
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