Oregon will receive $655,791 Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced today that Oregon, along with all 50 states and the District of Columbia, has reached a settlement with software company Blackbaud for its deficient data security practices and, particularly, its response... View Article
SB 619 creates strong, comprehensive consumer data privacy rights The Oregon House today unanimously passed Senate Bill 619, the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act, following a nearly unanimous vote in the Senate of 23-2. Passage of the bill by such wide... View Article
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Privacy on June 23, 2023
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced a $2.5-million 4-state settlement with EyeMed Vision Care (“EyeMed”) that resolves an investigation into a data breach that compromised the personal and medical information of approximately 2.1 million people, including more than 11,000 Oregonians. The... View Article
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes announced they’ve settled a data breach enforcement case against Avalon Healthcare Management. It is part of the Avalon Health Care Group that provides skilled nursing, therapy, senior living/assisted living and other medical services in six states,... View Article
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Attorney General Rosenblum Alerts Consumers Impacted by the Massive 2021 T-Mobile Data Breach to Take Steps to Protect Your Personal Information. Attorney General Rosenblum urges all Oregonians who may have been impacted by last year’s massive T-Mobile data breach to... View Article
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Privacy on March 4, 2022
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today testified before the House Business and Labor Committee in support of House Bill 4017, which creates a data broker registry for the State of Oregon. The bill was introduced at the Attorney General’s request... View Article
In recognition of October’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Attorney General Rosenblum today released updated data showing an increase in data breaches reported to the Oregon Attorney General’s Office. For the first nine months of 2021, there have already been 131 breaches... View Article
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Privacy on October 7, 2021
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today praised the Oregon House of Representatives for unanimously passing HB 3284, a bill proposed by the Attorney General to protect personal health data related to COVID-19. This bill applies to any commercial website, private entity,... View Article
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Privacy on April 28, 2021
Cybersecurity Takes the Spotlight As Consumers Take Shopping Online Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced a settlement with the online retailer CafePress to resolve findings from an investigation into a massive data breach. The 2019 incident exposed the personal... View Article
Oregon Attorney General Rosenblum joined a bipartisan coalition of 25 State Attorneys General to submit a comment letter to the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) asking the agency to strengthen its rules prohibiting websites, mobile applications, and digital marketing companies from... View Article
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Privacy on December 10, 2019