A recent development to the State of Washington Breach Notification Law, RCW 19.255.010, has to deal with the adoption of a “retailer liability” provision.  RCW 19.255.020 allows for banks, who incur significant costs due to security breaches, to have a remedy against retailers and payment processors that fail to protect against a security breach.  The State of […]

Last week I was going to blog about the collateral damage that had been done to Amazon as a result of its AWS cloud computing unit being taken down, and rendering thousands of companies unable to access their mission-critical information.  However, it was disclosed that Apple and Google were able to track people who use their Smartphones, […]