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"The Governor signed Senate Bill 2864 on July 6, 2016. The Bill amended the General Laws entitled ""Public Utilities and Carriers"" by adding the chapter: 3 Chapter 14.2 4 Transportation Network Company (TNC) Services 5 39-14.2-1. The amendment states that ""No individual shall provide TNC services or transport TNC riders in a personal vehicle until the individual shall have first submitted to required periodic background checks conducted through the TNC. If a third party is used to conduct the required background checks the third party must be accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners."

"On July 26, a Northern District of California judge certified a class of applicants who claimed that S2Verify, a background check company, included obsolete criminal information on their background reports in violation of the FCRA. In certifying the class, the Court found that the alleged harm was sufficient under the U.S. Supreme Court 's ruling in Spokeo. The Court certified the class finding that the lawsuit met the numerosity, commonality, typicality, and adequacy requirements for granting class certification. The Court also ruled that the claim asserted by Plaintiff satisfied the concreteness test for purposes of standing since he was able to demonstrate that S2Verify ""sent restricted information about plaintiff into the world and as such caused injury to plaintiff 's privacy interest."""

"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its opinion and final order against LabMD, Inc. which concluded that LabMD's data security practices constituted an unfair act or practice within the meaning of Section 5 of the FTC Act 1914.

The Decision consequently reverses the earlier Administrative Law Judge's (the ALJ) ruling, which held that the FTC failed to prove that LabMD did not employ 'reasonable and appropriate' data security measures, which 'caused, or [was] likely to cause, substantial injury to consumers,' as alleged. ""The Decision is another example of the FTC's intent to exercise its authority very broadly, in terms of the types of organisations that fall within its scope, the personal data covered, and the safeguards that must be in place to protect the data,"" said Joan Antokol, Partner at Park Legal LLC."