The
language is close, but does not quite require companies to go after
PII stolen from them. Too much to ask I guess.
Steven
Caponi and Elizabeth Sloan of Blank Rome LLP write:
On July 1, 2014, Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed into law
Delaware House Bill 295, which amends Section 6 of the Delaware Code
relating to trade and commerce. The new law, 6 Delaware Code
§§50C-101 thru 50C-401, places new obligations on commercial
entities with respect to the destruction of records containing the
personally identifiable information of consumers. Importantly, the
law exposes companies to new civil lawsuits by consumers and
administrative enforcement actions by the Delaware Department of
Justice. The new law is effective on January 1, 2015.
The heart of the new law is the obligation of “commercial entities”
to take “all reasonable
steps” to destroy consumers’ personal identifying information
that is “no longer to be retained by the commercial entity”
by “shredding, erasing, or otherwise destroying or modifying the
personal identifying information in those records to make it entirely
unreadable or indecipherable through any means. …” By adopting a
broad definition of “commercial entity,” the new requirements
impact all corporations, business trusts, estates, trusts,
partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships,
limited liability companies, associations, organizations, joint
ventures, or other legal entity—whether or not for-profit.
Importantly, the law does not specify when documents must be
destroyed, but rather, addresses how records should be destroyed when
they will no longer be “retained” by a company.
Read
more on JDSupra.
Not
all surveillance is evil.
Stephen
Rex Brown reports:
Sen. Chuck Schumer said Friday he has introduced legislation to
provide law enforcement around the country with tracking devices that
parents can voluntarily place on their autistic child.
The device could be a bracelet or sewn into pants and hopefully
prevent a replay of last year’s Avonte Oquendo tragedy, in which a
14-year-old autistic boy died after wandering out of school.
Read
more on NY
Daily News.
And
although it may surprise some readers, I think this type of tracking
is not only okay, but helpful – as long as it continues to be
voluntary on the parents’ part.
The
Pirate Party will destroy Copyright and Kim will ban surveillance.
Hannah
Jane Parkinson reports:
Tech tycoon Kim Dotcom has told the Guardian that “governments want
to engage in mass surveillance and have total citizen control”,
before a crowd fundraising event for the Mana Internet party, the
political party he founded to contest New Zealand’s September 20
elections.
Dotcom also reiterated his promise that five days before the
election, the world will “witness a moment of truth” at an event
alongside Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist who broke
the NSA revelations with Edward Snowden. “We’re about to make
history”, he said.
Read
more on The
Guardian.
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