New York Enhances Employee and Consumer Privacy Rights Under its Social Security Number Protection Law
Four years ago, New York enacted a Social Security Number Protection Law, N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law, §399-dd, aimed at combating identity theft by requiring employers to better safeguard employee social security numbers in their possession. (Click here for our summary of the law). Now, New York is going one step further with its passage of two new Social Security Number Protection laws.
