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Swiss Game Developer Settles FTC Allegations Over COPPA Safe Harbor Claims

Hunton Privacy

In 2009, Miniclip joined the FTC-approved Children’s Advertising Review Unit (“CARU”) COPPA safe harbor program and remained a member of the program until 2015, when CARU terminated Miniclip’s participation. In addition, Miniclip is subject to compliance and recordkeeping requirements.

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GoodRx to Pay $1.5 Million in First Ever FTC Health Breach Notification Rule Enforcement Action

Hunton Privacy

This is the first enforcement action taken under the FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule, which was issued in 2009. The FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule defines a “breach of security” as “acquisition of [unsecured PHR identifiable health information] without the authorization of the individual.” In addition to the $1.5

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Connecticut AG Announces Agreement with MetLife over 2009 Breach Incident

Hunton Privacy

On January 24, 2011, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen and Consumer Protection Commissioner William Rubenstein announced that they had reached an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (“AVC”) with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

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News Alert: AppViewX – EMA study finds 79 percent of SSL/TLS certificates vulnerable to MiTM attacks

The Last Watchdog

Survey Highlights As part of the study sponsored by AppViewX, EMA gathered data from multiple sources for this research report, including Google Trends from 5/6/2018 to 4/30/2023, Stack Exchange from 1/1/2009 to 12/31/2022, and Shodan in May 2023 focused on servers with SSL/TLS certificates on port 443.

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FTC Delays Enforcement of the Red Flags Rule until August 1, 2009

Hunton Privacy

The previous compliance date was May 1, 2009, which was an extension from the original deadline of November 1, 2008. " On March 20, 2009, the FTC published the Red Flags Rule Compliance Guide to assist organizations that must comply with the Red Flags Rule. ." The FTC’s news release is available here.

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Queensland Government introduces mandatory data breach notification regime

Data Protection Report

It is unclear when the Bill will pass, however, if enacted, the MDBN Scheme will apply to all Queensland state and local government agencies that are subject to the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld) ( Privacy Act ).

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Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

To counter this, some major IT vendors are pushing forward with a decades-old encryption idea that was first talked about in the late 1970s but not successfully demonstrated for the first time until 2009. Since then, interest in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has increased, largely paralleling the rise of cloud computing.