Category Archives: Data Privacy & Information Security

REPLACEMENT FOR PRIVACY SHIELD – DATA PRIVACY FRAMEWORK PROGRAM

REPLACEMENT FOR PRIVACY SHIELD DATA PRIVACY FRAMEWORK PROGRAM By: OlenderFeldman LLP; Michael J. Feldman, Esq. and Marguerite “Margo” Kneisser, Esq. August 8, 2023                                                                                                                                                             With the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework no longer available as a legal mechanism to transfer personal data from the EU/EEA/UK to the US (leaving most businesses to rely upon Standard…
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FAQs – FTC Proposes New Rule Invalidating Non-Competition Restrictions

On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks to ban employers from imposing and enforcing existing non-compete clauses. The FTC’s proposed rule would serve, with minor exceptions, as a complete ban on non-compete clauses and drastically change the employer and employee relationship as well as competition…
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DATA PRIVACY LAWS – WHAT’S NEW IN 2023?

In 2018, the European Union (“EU”) enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), vastly altering the landscape of data privacy laws.  With its broad scope and potentially hefty fines for non-compliance, the GDPR called for widespread change to the way data was collected, stored, transmitted, and secured.  Shortly after, California passed the first major data…
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NEW REQUIREMENTS TO ENFORCE WEBSITE TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE

Many businesses include Terms & Conditions of Use on their website and assume that by stating within those Terms & Conditions that they are binding on the user, they actually are binding on the user.  Other businesses may be a little more direct, by including a clear link on their home page when the user…
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