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Microsoft Delays Recall Rollout Amid Privacy Concerns

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Thursday, Microsoft announced its new line of Copilot Plus PCs would launch next week without the anticipated Recall feature. Originally part of Microsoft’s Copilot Plus suite, Recall was designed to take and store...more

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UK Privacy Watchdog Probes Microsoft’s Controversial “Recall” Feature

The UK’s data privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is investigating Microsoft over potential privacy concerns with its recently announced AI-powered “Recall” feature for Windows PCs. Microsoft...more

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Microsoft Copilot for M365: 4 Readiness Considerations for Legal and eDiscovery Teams

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Enterprise adoption of new technology has always impacted legal and eDiscovery teams. Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft’s flagship generative AI tool, is no different. While it promises to increase workplace...more

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AI Legal News Summer Roundup: Edition 3

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Welcome to the third edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! After five class actions were filed between June 28 and July 11 (as reported on in our first edition of this series), on July 21, another class action lawsuit...more

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California: Class Action against ChatGPT for Breach of Privacy

Regulations governing the use of AI technologies are constantly evolving in countries around the world. A class action is currently underway in California against Microsoft and OpenAI. The action alleges various violations of...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2022 #3

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CYBERSECURITY - DOJ Takes Down RaidForums' Website - In an action against what has been described as one of the largest hacker forums in the world, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on April 12, 2022, that...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2021 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - November's "Patch Tuesday" Includes 55 Patches - Staying current with Microsoft’s monthly patches is challenging, yet critical for one’s cybersecurity program. This week, Microsoft’s November Patch...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2021 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Apple + Microsoft Release Patches for Identified Vulnerabilities - This week, both Apple and Microsoft issued patches to fix serious zeroday vulnerabilities that should be applied as soon as possible. That...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2021 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Microsoft Issues Emergency Software Update for PrintNightmare Zero Day Vulnerability - Following the release of a U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (US-CERT) Coordination Center...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2021

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CYBERSECURITY - Law Enforcement Takes Down DoubleVPN - I love seeing another win for law enforcement in the cyber context. Servers and web domains owned by DoubleVPN, a virtual private network, were seized recently...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2021

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CYBERSECURTY - U.S. CISA + Cyber Command Warns of Critical Flaw in VMware - Although a patch has been available by VMware since May 25, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2021 #3

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CYBERSECURITY - Cisco/Talos Researchers Find Attackers Using Slack and Discord to Distribute Malware - Another example of the resiliency and creativity of cyber-attackers is outlined in a new blog by Cisco/Talos...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2021 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Microsoft Releases Additional Resources for Exchange Flaws and CISA Issues Alert - As we alerted our readers last week, Microsoft announced that its Exchange email servers have been compromised, which is...more

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Privacy Perils: Beware Brand Phishing

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We often think of phony financial institution emails as a bad actor’s phishing scheme of choice to capture confidential bank account numbers or other private financial information. While those phishing emails certainly do...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Resolving TikTok’s Data Issues Country by Country

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India’s Reliance Industries is considering acquiring TikTok’s business in India from ByteDance. We recently discussed the growing distrust by companies and countries of TikTok because of the perceived vulnerability of user...more

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Is Your Privacy Violated by Using Your Face to Train AI to Recognize Faces?

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If a picture of your face is used for a purpose that doesn’t identify you, is your privacy violated? If the publicly available picture was used just to show a face, distinguished from some faces, similar to others, and fed...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2020

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Alabama City Hit with Ransomware - On June 5, 2020, Florence, Alabama’s information technology systems were hit with ransomware by the DoppelPaymer group demanding a ransom payment of $378,000 in bitcoin. Mayor Steve Holt...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2020

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Microsoft Issues Cybersecurity Risk Warning and Offers Help to Hospitals During COVID-19 Crisis - On April 1, 2020, Microsoft issued a specific warning to health care entities alerting them that they are at particular risk...more

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Using Microsoft 365 to Stay Compliant with Data Privacy Laws

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Data privacy laws are popping up everywhere. Two years after the EU implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), providing individuals with significant control over their data and harsh penalties for...more

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The CLOUD Act: Where International Data Privacy and Law Enforcement Collide

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (the CLOUD Act), a United States federal law, will be celebrating its two-year anniversary on March 23, 2020. It was effectively, and primarily, an amendment to the Stored...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2020 #2

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Department of Homeland Security Warns of Cyber-Attacks by Iran - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a grave warning to U.S. businesses and critical infrastructure operators on January 6, 2020, alerting the...more

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To Extend or Not to Extend Consumer Rights to All

Microsoft announced this week that it would extend the consumer rights currently given to California consumers through the California Consumer Privacy Act to all consumers—no matter where they reside....more

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Microsoft’s Extension Of CCPA Protections Creates Compliance Floor

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On Nov. 11, Microsoft announced that it will voluntarily extend the core data privacy protections afforded to California residents under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to all its U.S. customers. California's...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2019 #4

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Security research firm Gigamon has reported that the nasty cybercriminal group FIN8 may have reappeared in June after a two-year silence. FIN8 is known for implementing malware on point of sale systems to steal credit card...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2019 #2

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The Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance just released its "2018 Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report," which says “2018–Some Better, Some Worse, All Bad.” That’s our experience, too. Here are the highlights from the...more

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