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Paid Family Leave Employee Contribution Rate for 2018 Published
The Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued a much-anticipated document setting the maximum employee contribution to pay for New York Paid Family Leave (PFL) at 0.126% of an employee’s weekly wage, up to the statewide average weekly wage.&n
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Workers Compensation Board Issues Proposed New York Paid Family Leave Rules, Take Two
Back in February, proposed regulations for New York’s Paid Family Leave Benefits Law were issued by the Workers Compensation Board (WCB). Today, the WCB released a revised set of proposed regulations containing some minor and a few substantial change
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In the News: Financial institutions learn about new cybersecurity regulations.
"When this hits a health care provider or other folks who are on the first line of defense where people's health and safety are concerned, you can certainly understand that decision, but at the end of the day, you have no assurance that the very same
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The Dangers of Regulatory Creep - Do New York DFS Cybersecurity Regulations Apply to Federally Chartered Financial Institutions?
In February 2017, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) finalized a new set of cybersecurity regulations that governs New York’s banking, insurance, and financial services industries. Entities in those industries are required to
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ISP Privacy Rule Update: Federal Government Out, State Governments In
The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) adopted rules in 2016 that restricted Internet Service Providers (“ISPs”), such as Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast, from sharing sensitive data, including browsing history and location data, without consum
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Yahoo breaches impact on Verizon deal reminds us that cybersecurity is a board concern
Even in today’s day and age, data security issues are sometimes (much too often, in fact) shuffled aside by C-suite executives who are stuck believing that network security is a concern for the IT department, not those who run the company on a day-to
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What does NY DFS 23 N.Y.C.R.R. Part 500 really mean to your organization?
Join us May 16, 2017 at our Pathway to Compliance event to get insights into the challenges organizations face in complying with the demanding new requirements.
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And Then There Were Two: Closing the Gap on State-Level Data Breach Notification Requirements
Last Thursday, Governor Martinez of New Mexico signed into law the 48th state-level data breach notification law, bringing the requirements for notifying individuals affected by data breaches to this state.
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Courts Split on Standing Implications of Credit Monitoring
In our last post, we discussed the evolving standing landscape in class actions. That discussion highlighted the Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent decision in Horizon Healthcare, where the Court held that even without hard evidence that any of t
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Recent FCRA Data Breach Class Action Decision: Statutory violations may be enough to establish Article III standing
In a recent decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s ruling on a motion to dismiss and held that class action plaintiffs had Article III standing on the basis of their data security Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) clai
Yesterday, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) released draft regulations on cybersecurity potentially effecting all entities licensed or permitted by DFS. The DFS Press release is here: http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/press/pr1609131.htm and the draft regulations can be found here: http://www.dfs.ny.gov/legal/regulations/proposed/rp500t.pdf. DFS first announced its intention to issue these regulations in a letter to federal regulators in November 2015, seeking collaboration with the relevant federal authorities.
On September 29, 2016 Amy L. Hemenway, Partner in the Labor and Employment Practice Group at Harter Secrest & Emery, will participate in a breakfast forum titled Overtime Understood at Milos Restaurant in Williamsville. She and Joseph Wutz, a Manager with The Bonadio Group, will discuss the implications of the Department of Labor’s new overtime rules for non-profit businesses.
F. Paul Greene, Partner and Chair of the Privacy and Data Security Practice Group at Harter Secrest & Emery, joined the panel for the Building Blocks of Cyber Security event hosted by Innovative Solutions, Logical Operations and Lawley Insurance on September 13, 2016.
On October 5th at 2:30 pm HSE Partner and Chair of the Privacy and Data Security Practice Group, F. Paul Greene, will be speaking at the Rochester Security Summit 2016 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Rochester, NY.
In our first post in this series, we discussed the origins of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and gave our assessment that the Framework would serve not only as a helpful tool for companies looking for support in securing their networks, but also as a guidepost for best practices in the realm of data security. Recent guidance published by the FTC gives credence to this assessment. In a blog post made available to the public just last week (available here), the FTC discussed the Framework and noted favorably that its “functions signify the key elements of effective cybersecurity.” This post discusses the importance of the FTC’s insight and identifies the Framework’s “Core” components.