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Regulatory Trends to Watch in 2020: Notifying the State Attorney General

A significant trend in proposed and recently passed U.S. state legislation is the requirement to notify the state attorney general in the event of a breach.

How to Use 2020 to Improve Your Privacy Incident Response

Review key privacy incident response metrics and see how your company compares with established industry benchmarks.

Regulatory Trends to Watch in 2020: Specifying Notification Contents

When investigating a story, journalists seek answers to the five Ws and one H: who, what, when, why, where, and how. Similarly, regulators are now requiring organizations to more explicitly share the details of a breach by specifying notification content.

Regulatory Trends to Watch in 2020: Increasing Specificity in Notification Timelines

As regulations continue to condense the timeframe between discovery or awareness of a breach and required notification, either to a regulator or to affected individuals, it’s increasingly critical that processes and systems are in place to streamline incident response.

Changing Data Breach Laws: Michigan

In 2018, former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed into law House Bill 6406 (Public Act 649 of 2018). This law exempts entities regulated by the insurance code from Michigan’s Identity Theft Protection Act. As of January 20, 2020, this law is in effect.

Regulatory Trends to Watch in 2020: The Expanding Scope of Personal Information