Are You in Compliance With New York’s Newest Requirement to Develop, Maintain, and Implement Reasonable Safeguards to Protect New Yorkers’ Private Information?

The new data security requirements provision of New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act went into full force as of March 21, 2020, and all people and businesses, regardless of the state in which they reside, must comply with the new rules if they handle the private information of New York residents.

The SHIELD Act requires that any “person or business that owns or licenses computerized data which includes private information of a resident of New York shall develop, implement and maintain reasonable safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of the private information including, but not limited to, disposal of data. READ MORE