On 7 April, US House Committee on Energy and Commerce (Energy and Commerce Committee) Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Commerce Committee) Chairwoman...more
5/16/2024
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
COPPA ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
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Proposed Legislation ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Public Policy
Almost one year ago, Washington State passed the “My Health, My Data” Act (the Act), which aims to protect Washington consumer health data, particularly data related to reproductive healthcare. The Act is the first law in the...more
In this episode, our privacy lawyers, Claude-Étienne Armingaud, Whitney McCollum, and Camille Scarparo, sit down with Arya Tripathy, a partner at Priti Suri & Associates in New Dehli, and discuss together India’s newly...more
In a Nutshell - On 10 July 2023—nearly three years to the day after the Schrems II decision of the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) (Schrems II Decision, see our Alert here)—the EU Commission has adopted the...more
In this episode, partners Amigo Xie, Corey Bieber, and Whitney McCollum focus on the China Data Privacy laws, the recent China Standard Contract that took effect 1 June 2023, and the effects and restrictions it may have on...more
Closing in on the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on 22 May 2023 that it had fined the Irish subsidiary of...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is known for protecting consumers against unfair and deceptive business practices, so how does data privacy and cybersecurity tie into that? In this episode, Jake Bernstein and Whitney...more
SUMMARY - On 27 April 2023, Washington Gov. Inslee signed into law House Bill 1155, referred to as the “My Health, My Data” Act (the Act), which takes effect on 31 March 2024. The Act aims to protect Washington consumer...more
On 29 March 2023 the California Office of Administrative Law approved the first final rulemaking package proposed by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA or the Agency), which is the implementing and enforcement...more
In this episode, Jake Bernstein and Whitney McCollum discuss the most common question that they receive from clients about privacy regulation and best practices in the United States, and provide notable insight into the...more
On 24 August 2022, the California Attorney General announced a US$1.2 million settlement including injunctive relief terms with cosmetic giant Sephora, Inc. (Sephora), resolving allegations that the company violated the...more
Security expert, Roselle Safran, joins hosts Jerich Beason & Whitney McCollum have come together after realizing more people know more about “The Queen’s Crown Jewels” than those that are vital to their company. How do you...more
Privacy & Compliance expert from Microsoft, Ingrid Rodriguez, joins hosts Jerich Beason & Whitney McCollum to discuss taking risk out of silos. They talk about how the entire organization needs to have understanding of the...more
Professor, Attorney and Expert in Cybersecurity Policy & Governance, Kevin Powers joins Jerich Beason & Whitney McCollum to discuss where the law stands on “Hacking Back”. Everyone at some point wants to be Batman. During...more
4/29/2022
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Cyber Attacks ,
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Hackers ,
Popular
Jerich Beason & Whitney McCollum speak on this Cyberside Chat to discuss the recent Merck & Co. cyber insurance win and how this impacts future wars fought with cyber weapons such as the conflict in Ukraine. This case sets a...more
3/7/2022
/ Contract Drafting ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Insurance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Denial of Insurance Coverage ,
Insurance Claims ,
Insurance Contracts ,
Insurance Industry ,
Insurance Litigation ,
Malware ,
Policy Exclusions ,
Third-Party Risk
Dr Zero Trust – Chase Cunningham creator of the Zero Trust eXtended Framework joins Jerich Beason & Whitney McCollum for today’s Cyberside Chat to discuss the principles and types of technologies that support a zero trust...more
On this episode of CyberSide Chats, Epiq’s CISO Jerich Beason, and this week’s co-host Whitney McCollum are joined by Stefanie Drysdale to discuss M&A. They discuss the process of evaluating a target company’s cybersecurity...more