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California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) Decisions Continue to Create Uncertainty for Websites Using Third-Party Technology

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The pace of internet consumer privacy class action litigation is skyrocketing. Remarkably, no specific legislative change in the law triggered the increase in litigation. Instead, the driver of this litigation explosion — in...more

Baker Donelson

MOVEit Transfer Zero-Day Vulnerability: What Companies Need to Know

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On May 31, 2023, renowned managed file transfer solution provider Ipswitch, Inc. revealed a zero-day vulnerability in its flagship solution, MOVEit Transfer, that can enable mass data theft from thousands of organizations....more

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Ransomware - why paying up earns no credit with the UK's Data Protection Authority and others

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In a joint letter this summer, the UK’s data protection regulator (the ICO) and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (the NCSC) sought to convey some key messages to the legal profession relevant to advising clients...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] FCPA & Anti-Corruption for the Life Sciences Industry - July 21st - 22nd, Boston, MA

ACI is excited to welcome you back in-person to the 14th Advanced Forum on FCPA & Anti-Corruption for the Life Sciences Industry, taking place on July 21–22, 2022 in Boston! Legal and compliance professionals from...more

Epstein Becker & Green

EBSA Speaks: New Guidance for Mitigating Retirement Plan Cybersecurity Risk

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On April 14, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL’s”) Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) issued its first cybersecurity best practices guidance for retirement plans. The guidance is set forth in three...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

ERISA Plan Sponsors – Watch Your Participants’ Data! DOL Issues New Cybersecurity Guidance for Retirement Plans

In response to a recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report recommending federal guidance to mitigate cybersecurity risks in retirement plans and to respond to ever-increasing cyber threats to plan participant data and...more

Epstein Becker & Green

[Virtual Briefing] Bias in Artificial Intelligence: Legal Risks and Solutions - March 23rd, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET

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You've likely seen the headlines. Online recruiting tools that unfairly screen out women and minorities. Facial recognition tools used in law enforcement that misidentify specific demographic groups. Algorithms that place...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Virtual Event] 37th International Conference on the FCPA - December 2nd - 3rd, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm EST

The Annual Gathering for the Global Anti-Corruption Community - Exclusive Interview with President of Microsoft at FCPA DC - The world has reached an inflection point in which digital technology is being used as both a...more

Hanzo

How to Effectively Use Slack’s Collaboration Tools While Mitigating Risks: Webinar Recap

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The collaboration platform that Slack launched led to an unprecedented shakeup in how organizations communicate internally—and that was before the coronavirus pandemic sent everyone home to work. Now that quarantining and...more

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Cyber Coverage in the Age of COVID-19 Need Not Result in Pandemonium

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While businesses and their employees continue to operate in the “new frontier” of working-from-home during the COVID-19 pandemic and the gradual reopening of the economy, a serious risk continues to present itself: the threat...more

Hanzo

[Webinar] Slack For Legal Teams: Getting The Most Out Of Collaboration While Mitigating Risk - July 29th, 1:00 pm ET

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In this work-from-home world, collaboration applications like Slack have gone from the relatively small domain of IT and Development to expand, almost overnight, across the entire corporation. This dramatic shift means two...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

COVID-19 and Cybersecurity for In-House Legal Departments

Like many attorneys, my passion for the law began at a young age. In a story my parents like to recount, I asked for something (I forget what), they promised, and I put it in writing and made them sign it (clearly my parents...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] January Healthcare Regional Conferences – Charlotte-Jan. 17, Atlanta-Jan. 24, and Orlando-Jan. 31

Our one-day regional conferences are dedicated to providing the latest news in healthcare compliance regulatory requirements. Professionals who attend will learn about relevant topics that will keep them ahead of trending...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK Government Issues Report on Huawei Vulnerabilities

On March 28, 2019, the Oversight Board of the United Kingdom’s Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) released a report identifying “serious and systematic defects in Huawei’s software engineering and cyber security...more

Hogan Lovells

A game changer? China enacts first e-commerce law

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In stark contrast to the rapid development of e-commerce in China, it has taken nearly five years and no less than four drafts for China to finalise its first e-Commerce Law. The new law will enter into force on 1 January...more

Littler

Vendor Breaches and Their Implications for Employers

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The announcement by Equifax, Inc. that it had been victimized in a hacking incident involving the personal information of 143 million Americans generated headlines this past week. The sheer size of the hack means that most...more

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Hacking Your Health: For Healthcare Providers, Risk Analysis Must Be Ongoing

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Healthcare providers would be wise to keep in mind that if a patient is harmed by a hacked medical device, Exhibit A in the negligence suit against them may be that provider’s risk analysis, or lack thereof....more

BakerHostetler

Cybersecurity is a Real Risk, So Become “Compromise Ready”

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Many have heard that “it is not a matter of if a company will be attacked, but when.” Statements like this used to be met with skepticism – companies would say we do not have information hackers want, we outsource our...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

The Anthem Data Breach: The Fallout and What’s Next

By now (unless you have been under a snow drift), you have likely heard about the apparent intrusion into a database at the nation’s largest health insurer, Anthem, Inc. Rather than reiterate the facts as currently known...more

Goodwin

Breaches in the Boardroom: What Directors and Officers can do to Reduce the Risk of Personal Liability for Data Security Breaches

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Corporate directors and officers may increasingly be targets of shareholder derivative lawsuits in the wake of the surge of regulatory actions and private litigation around data breaches,. While no individual directors and...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Five Ways to Reduce Your HIPAA Liability

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As of early December 2014, 1,170 security breaches under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) involving 31 million records had been reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...more

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