<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2018/06/07/oregon-amends-data-breach-notification-law/">https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2018/06/07/oregon-amends-data-breach-notification-law/</a><br><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-lxb_af-post_content gmail-lxb_af-clear"><p>On June 2, 2018, <a href="https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2018R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB1551" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oregon’s amended data breach notification law</a>
(“the amended law”) went into effect. Among other changes, the amended
law broadens the applicability of breach notification requirements,
prohibits fees for security freezes and related services provided to
consumers in the wake of a breach and adds a specific notification
timing requirement.<span id="gmail-more-16431"></span></p>
<p><strong>Key Provisions of the Amended Law Include:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Definition of Personal Information:</strong> Oregon’s
definition of personal information now includes the consumer’s first
name or initial and last name combined with “any other information or
combination of information that a person reasonably knows or should know
would permit access to the consumer’s financial account.”</li>
<li><strong>Expanded Scope of Application:</strong> Instead of applying
only to persons who “own or license” personal information that they use
in the course of their business, the amended law now also applies to any
person who “otherwise possesses” such information and uses it in the
course of their business. It also requires notice when an organization
receives a notice of breach from another person that “maintains or
otherwise possesses personal information on the person’s behalf.”
Persons who maintain or otherwise possess information on behalf of
another must “notify the other person as soon as is practicable after
discovering a breach of security.”</li>
<li><strong>Notice Requirements:</strong> The amended law adds a new
notice deadline. Notice of a breach of security must be given in the
“most expeditious manner possible, without unreasonable delay,” and not
later than 45 days after discovering or being notified of the security
breach. Also, while the amended law exempts entities that are required
to provide breach notification under certain other requirements (e.g.,
federal laws such as HIPAA), such entities are now required to provide
the Attorney General with any notice sent to consumers or regulators in
compliance with such other requirements.</li>
<li><strong>Providing Credit Monitoring Services:</strong> If
organizations offer consumers credit monitoring services or identity
theft prevention or mitigation services in connection with their notice
of a breach, they cannot make those services contingent on the consumer
providing a credit or debit card number, or accepting another service
that the person offers to provide for a fee. The terms and conditions of
any contract for the provision of these services must embody these
requirements.</li>
<li><strong>Prohibiting Fees for Security Freezes:</strong> Under the
amended law, consumer reporting agencies are prohibited from charging a
consumer a fee for “placing, temporarily lifting or removing a security
freeze on the consumer’s report,” creating or deleting protective
records, placing or removing security freezes on protected records, or
replacing identification numbers, passwords or similar devices that the
agency previously provided.</li>
</ul>
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