Ad Law Access

Updates on advertising law and privacy law trends, issues, and developments

UPDATE: Data Breaches on the Rise in 2010

Updating a previous post regarding the rise last year in the number of data breaches involving customers’ personal information in the general business sector, the numbers of these breaches for the first third of…

10 Data Protection Regulators Issue Letter to Google

This post was written by Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik . On April 19, 2010, data protection authorities from Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the United…

Maine Repeals Law Prohibiting Marketing to Children

In a post last month, we wrote that a Maine legislative committee had voted to repeal a recently-enacted online marketing law and predicted that the full legislature would soon repeal the law. Since then, Maine…

Mississippi Enacts Data Breach Notification Law

This post was written by Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik . On April 7, 2010, Mississippi enacted a data breach notification law that requires any person who conducts business in the State of Mississippi, and who, in the ordinary…

Study Suggests that Data Breaches Among Businesses May Be on the Rise

A recent study released by the Identity Theft Resource Center (“ITRC”), a non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to the prevention of identity theft, suggests that in 2009, while the government appeared to be…