Back in March of this year, not one, but two consumer privacy bills were filed in the Texas House of Representatives. Republican Rep. Giovanni Capriglione filed House Bill 4390 a.k.a. Texas Privacy Protection Act, while Democrat Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer filed HB 4518 a.k.a. the Texas Consumer Privacy Act.Unsurprisingly, both bills are modeled on California’s...Read More

In coordination with 16 other state attorneys general, West Virginia AG Patrick Morrisey has reached a settlement concerning a data breach involving health records company Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. (MIE) The breach, which occurred in May 2015, exposed the medical records of more than 3.9 million individuals. Collectively, the attorneys general allege that hackers broke...Read More