LEGAL DOCUMENTS YOUR COLLEGE STUDENT SHOULD SIGN BEFORE THEY LEAVE FOR SCHOOL I just dropped off my eldest child for his first semester of college several states away and have been thinking about the many ways in which life has changed now that he is 18. Not only is he… read more →
TIME FOR CYBERSECURITY: 12 STEPS TO IMPROVE YOUR INFORMATION SECURITY PRACTICES Step 3. Segment Your Network. Not all information collected from data subjects, namely your customers and clients, is personally identifiable information (“PII”) and requires identical security measures. Knowing your information inventory and classifying information according to the level of… read more →
TIME FOR CYBERSECURITY: 12 STEPS TO IMPROVE YOUR INFORMATION SECURITY PRACTICES Step 2. Access Controls. The Federal Trade Commission recommends managing access to personally identifiable information (the “PII”) sensibly. Not all employees in an organization should have equal access rights to the information that a business collects. A manager in… read more →
PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM (PPP) LOAN FORGIVENESS INFORMATION AVAILABLE If you took a PPP loan to cover your payroll and operating expenses, beginning August 10, 2020, you may apply for loan forgiveness. However, check with your bank to make sure they are ready to start considering loan forgiveness. To assist you,… read more →
TIME FOR CYBERSECURITY: 12 STEPS TO IMPROVE YOUR INFORMATION SECURITY PRACTICES Step 1. Industry-wide Standard Security Measures. The Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) is the major cybersecurity federal enforcer in the United States. A number of enforcement actions based on inadequate information security measures brought by the FTC in the… read more →
On July 23, the Small Business Administration issued a procedural notice to lenders participating in the Paycheck Protection Program concerning PPP loan forgiveness. https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/5000-20038.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery. In summary the notice states that: SBA will begin accepting forgiveness applications from lenders on August 10. The forgiveness applications (SBA Form 3508 and Form 3508EZ)… read more →
Businesses have started to implement temperature checks to test their employees for a fever, which is one of the symptoms of COVID-19. Whether it is done using thermal imaging technology or a handheld temperature check device, reading temperature involves thermal data collection which is biometric information and falls under the… read more →
If your organization collects, retains, generates, uses, transforms, shares, or disposes of personally identifiable information (PII) at any point of your business operations, you should consider developing a comprehensive information security policy as part of your business plan and risk management strategy. Simply defined, PII is any information that can… read more →
On July 16, 2020, the European Court of Justice (the “ECJ”) in Data Protection no government overreach v. Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (C-311/18) (the “Schrems II”) invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield framework commonly used for transatlantic information transfers. The ECJ held that Standard Contractual Clauses are valid but may… read more →
