On Monday, March 6, 2017, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) held its annual Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference. During the conference, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, who was appointed to...more
Although Germany has tended to advocate relatively strict data protection laws, a recently released draft law could call into question the extent to which Germany will protect privacy rights in the future. The stated purpose...more
In late October 2016, European Union (“EU”) data protection authorities issued letters to Yahoo and WhatsApp related to alleged privacy incidents involving those companies. The letters were issued by a collective of EU data...more
In two reports issued on September 29, 2016, the Federal Reserve’s Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) discussed major management challenges facing the Federal Reserve Board (the “Board”) and the Consumer Financial Protection...more
On September 22, 2016, Yahoo issued a statement confirming that hackers infiltrated its systems in late 2014 and lifted account data tied to at least 500 million users. In its press release, Yahoo said that a recent...more