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JoomlaDay Florida 2019 -What Agencies Need to Know About Privacy

JoomlaDay Florida Logo

Attorney, Rian Kinney had the pleasure of presenting at her first JoomlaDay Florida in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, February 23rd, 2019. While presenting What Agencies Need to Know About Privacy, an overview of relevant EU and US privacy law, attendees asked that slides be published and shared talk. As promised, the talk slides have been…

Kinney Firm Selected to Present Privacy Talk

WordCampUS 2018

eCommerce and Privacy Attorney, Rian Kinney, founder of Kinney Firm and eCommLegal was selected to present a privacy talk at this year’s WordCamp US. What’s Privacy Got To Do With IT? GDPR, CCPA, Data Breach requirements, DPIA’s… Yeah, it’s a LOT! Worse, there’s a lot of confusing and conflicting information out there regarding what’s changing…

INDEMNIFICATION CLAUSES CAN BE INTIMIDATING AND CONFUSING

Contract, Indemnification Clause

Indemnification is a common clause in contracts, used to shift potential legal fees and other costs from one party to another.  After recently speaking about contracts at WordCamp Orlando, I realized a lot of business owners still have a lot of uncertainty and questions relating to indemnification clauses so I want to clarify what the…

eCommerce Privacy Podcast with BobWP

I sat down with BobWP to record a privacy podcast about common Privacy and GDPR and eCommerce issues facing online businesses and their owners. We discussed issues like: How much can we rely on the privacy updates that came with WordPress 4.9? Can the do-it-yourselfer handle it themselves? What are two of the most overlooked…

Update Your Privacy Policy

European Economic Area Flags

For those of you seeking GDPR compliant Privacy Notices and Privacy Policies, you may want to update them from merely encompassing the European Union to the European Economic Area, which includes the 28 countries of the European Union (the “EU”): Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,…

How can you leverage GDPR compliance measures to comply with CCPA?

Even though more than 700 privacy laws existed globally before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became enforceable, May 25th, 2018 was really the start date, not the deadline, for many corporate privacy compliance frameworks. Articles 5 and 24 of the GDPR address Accountability and require that you have a Privacy Program in place. You…

The Key Differences Between EU and US Privacy Law

On September 15th, U.S. Privacy Attorney, Rian Kinney, will travel to the Eternal City to present on The Key Differences Between EU and US Privacy Law at WordCamp Rome. Rian is no stranger to the international WordCamp community, having attended WordCamp Milano in 2017 and volunteered as a teaching assistant at WordCamp Europe 2018 in…

US Privacy Attorney to Assist with International GDPR Workshop

WordCamp Europe 2018

In June, Rian Kinney of The Kinney Firm will travel to Belgrade, Serbia to assist Heather Burns of WebDevLaw with presenting the Developing for Privacy and Data Protection Workshop covering the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy Directive at the WordCamp Europe 2018 conference. Heather Burns is a digital law specialist, privacy law advocate and…

What You Need To Know About GDPR

What Does GDPR Mean for the Enterprise?

You may have noticed your inbox is getting stuffed with notices from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Google, etc. updating their Privacy Policies, Terms of Use and making you aware of new features such as your ability to change your personal data settings, opt out of marketing and cookie tracking. These companies are taking these measures and…