The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) voted today to adopt updated breach notification rules for telecommunications and interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) service providers (together, “carriers”), and telecommunications relay service (“TRS”) providers. Before this week, the FCC...

For the first time since 2007, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has proposed updating its breach notification rules for telecommunications carriers. On January 6, 2023—after nearly a year of internal deliberation—the FCC issued a Notice...

On May 7, 2019, Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill (HB 1071) that strengthens the state’s existing data breach notification law by expanding the definition of “personal information” and reducing the time an entity has to...

Massachusetts has updated its breach notification law to require credit monitoring services and more prescriptive breach notices to regulators, as well as to strengthen rules for consumer reporting agencies. Governor Charlie Baker signed the legislation...