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Last year, the New York City Council passed Local Law Int. No. 1894-A, which amended the City’s administrative code to afford new protections to employees during the hiring and promotion processes. The law protects those individuals from unlawful bias by the employer when automated employment decision tools are used. Employers must conduct AI tool audits to…
FAA Issues Task Order for UTM Project at Griffiss International Airport
By Kathryn Rattigan on August 11, 2022
This week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a task order contract to the New York UAS Test Site for an unmanned aircraft system (UAS or drone) integration project. The project is designed to assist in the development of a UAS traffic management (UTM) system and to promote the safe operation of high-volume drone operations.
New York DFS Fines Robinhood $30M for “Significant” Cybersecurity Violations
By Linn Foster Freedman on August 4, 2022
Mediant Communications Settles Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit
By Kathryn Rattigan on April 28, 2022
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Last week, Mediant Communications Inc. (Mediant) settled a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York stemming from a 2019 data breach in which hackers accessed 200,000 individuals’ personal information from its proxy investor communication service. Mediant is based in New York and offers mutual funds and real…
Drones for Increased Public Safety in NYC?
By Kathryn Rattigan on March 24, 2022
Easy Aerial, creator of military grade drone-in-a box solutions, recently presented its plans for the New York Soteria Project with a goal of putting an “eye in the sky” to enhance security across New York City. Easy Aerial seeks to put drones on rooftops in the city, in particular in areas of high crime. Easy…
At Least 22 States Have Consumer Privacy Legislation Pending – Will 2022 Be the Year for More State Privacy Laws?
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on February 24, 2022
Posted in Data Privacy
California is the gold standard for state privacy laws, having recently enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Virginia and Colorado also have enacted comprehensive privacy laws, which will take effect in 2023. Recently, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) released its state privacy legislation tracker.…
EyeMed Settles with NY AG for $600,000 Over 2020 Data Breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on January 27, 2022
Posted in New + Now
EyeMed Vision Care, LLC, was the victim of a hacking incident in 2020 that compromised the personal information of 2.1 million consumers, including their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, member numbers of health and vision insurance accounts, diagnoses, and treatment information. According to the New York Attorney General’s office, 98,632 of those individuals were state…
Blackbaud Must Face CCPA Claims in Multi-district Class Action from Data Breach
By Linn Foster Freedman on August 19, 2021
Posted in CCPA, Enforcement + Litigation
Blackbaud, which suffered a data breach of its customers’ data in a ransomware attack in 2020, in which it admitted paying the ransom in a double extortion attack [view related posts], is facing multiple class action cases following the attack. The cases have been consolidated in multi-district litigation and now comprise 29 cases.
Filters Fast LLC Fails to Obtain Dismissal of Plaintiffs’ Proposed Class Action
By Kathryn Rattigan on July 22, 2021
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
This week, a North Carolina federal judge denied Filters Fast LLC’s motion to dismiss a proposed data breach class action, ruling that the plaintiffs demonstrated adequate harm to satisfy Article III standing.
The class action stems from a data breach that occurred between July 2019 and July 2020 through Filters Fast’s shopping website. Plaintiffs claim…
New York Adds Text Messaging to its Definition of Telemarketing
By Kathryn Rattigan on July 15, 2021
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
This week, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation that added text messaging to the state of New York’s definition of telemarketing communication for purposes of its no-call registry. The legislation, S.3941/A.6040, closes the loophole that previously exempted businesses from the no-call registry restrictions when the communication was sent via text. The goal is to increase protections…
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