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COMPUTER SECURITY INCIDENTS – WHO TO CONTACT?

On November 17, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Treasury; the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board); and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) released a final rule that requires a banking organization to notify its primary federal regulator of any “computer-security incident” that rises to the level of a “notification incident,” as soon as possible and no later than 36 hours after the banking organization determines that a notification incident has occurred.

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$170 MILLION COPPA SETTLEMENT WITH GOOGLE AND YOUTUBE

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Google LLC and its subsidiary YouTube, LLC have settled with the FTC and New York Attorney General over allegations that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).  The complaint alleges the personal information collected was from viewers of child-directed channels in the form of persistent identifiers used to track internet usage, commonly known as cookies. According to the complaint, use of these cookies to deliver targeted ads to viewers of these channels resulted in YouTube earning millions of dollars.
Per the settlement Google and YouTube:

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