Mark L. Krotoski and W. Scott Tester of Morgan Lewis
remind entities that duty to notify of a breach depends on state definitions of
“personal information,” and more states are now including usernames or email
addresses as personal information:
Illinois, Nebraska, and Nevada
are the latest to add usernames or email addresses to the definition of PI when
they are combined with information that would permit access to an online
account. The Illinois law took effect on
January 1, 2017, while the respective laws in Nebraska and Nevada took effect
in 2016.
Three other states (California,
Florida, and Wyoming) had previously enacted laws mandating that either a
username or email address constitutes PI when combined with a password or
security question and answer that would permit access to an online account.
Read more on Lexology
Perspective. Pity the little old FBI agent charged with
reading all of these.
Facebook says people sent 63 billion WhatsApp messages on New
Year’s Eve
Facebook-owned WhatsApp today announced that people sent
63 billion messages on New Year’s Eve, setting a new record for the app that
lets people have chats and make voice and video calls.
Within those 63 billion messages, there were 7.9 billion
images and 2.4 billion videos, a WhatsApp spokesperson told VentureBeat in an
email.
Somehow I doubt it.
Trump Nominees’ Filings Threaten to Overwhelm Federal Ethics
Office
Rex W. Tillerson owns more
than $50 million of Exxon Mobil stock, has earned an annual salary of $10
million and holds a range of positions — from director at the Boy Scouts of
America to the managing director of a Texas horse and cattle ranch.
But Mr. Tillerson
is prepared to resign from all those posts, sell all his stock and put much of
his money into bland investments like Treasury bonds if he becomes
secretary of state, according to an “ethics
undertakings” memo he filed this week with the State Department. And, if he returns to the oil industry in the next decade, he could
lose as much as $180 million.
… The disclosures are
then used by the agencies they are to take over, along with the Office of
Government Ethics, to identify potential conflicts of interest and to negotiate
ethics letters to be signed by the nominees, committing to avoid conflicts of
interest.
At the same time, this class of wealthy incoming officials
could save hundreds of millions of dollars in income tax payments, thanks to a special tax benefit created so that affluent
Americans do not avoid federal government jobs.
Can it be that simple?
AT&T-Time Warner deal likely to avoid FCC scrutiny
AT&T will likely circumvent Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) oversight in its attempted purchase of Time Warner, according
to an SEC filing released Friday.
In an S-4
filing, Time Warner said that it had completed a review of its FCC licenses and
determined that it “will not need to transfer any of its FCC licenses to
AT&T.”
If Time
Warner and AT&T had decided to keep the licenses in the acquisition, the
FCC would have had a chance to review and potentially block the $85 billion
deal. President-elect Donald Trump
is reportedly
still interested in blocking the sale, with some experts speculating that
review of the deal by a Trump-appointed FCC chairman could thwart the
company's’ intentions.
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