Selected U.S. Privacy and Cyber Updates - California Privacy Protection Agency Issues Notice of Modifications to Proposed CPRA Regulations - On November 3, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) issued a notice...more
Selected Developments in U.S. Law - U.S. Department of Commerce Announces the Establishment of a Global CBPR Forum On April 21, 2022, Canada, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States...more
5/11/2022
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Digital Assets ,
Fraud ,
Personal Information ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Ransomware
Selected Developments in U.S. Law - SEC Proposed Rule Will Require Private Funds to Report Certain Cyber Events On January 26, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new rules to enhance hedge fund...more
2/9/2022
/ China ,
Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Data Subject Access Requests ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Malware ,
Multi-Factor Authentication ,
NYDFS ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Russia ,
Ukraine
Selected Developments in U.S. Law - Colorado Privacy Act Becomes Third Comprehensive State Privacy Act in the United States - Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team highlights some of the similarities and differences between...more
Selected Developments in U.S. Law - NYDFS Issues Report on the SolarWinds Attack and Covered Entities’ Responses Following the SolarWinds cyber espionage attack and the resulting focus on supply chain risk, the New York...more
5/14/2021
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
FBI ,
NYDFS ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Safe Harbors ,
Settlement ,
SolarWinds ,
Supply Chain
As the countdown continues to September 20, our International Trade & Regulatory Group examines the ambiguities underlying the unprecedented Executive Orders purporting to ban the use of TikTok and WeChat, questions that may...more
9/16/2020
/ Executive Orders ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
Mobile Apps ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Online Platforms ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Sanctions ,
Social Media ,
Software Developers ,
Surveillance ,
TikTok ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
WeChat
Selected Developments in U.S. Law - SEC Creates Event and Emerging Risk Examination Team - Following the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations’ (OCIE) recent and detailed risk alert on the threat of ransomware,...more
8/14/2020
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Transfers ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ,
OCIE ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
UK
Selected Developments in U.S. Law -
NIST Publishes Privacy Framework Version 1.0 -
On January 16, 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published Version 1.0 of its Privacy Framework: A Tool for...more
Our Privacy & Data Security Team summarizes the portions of California’s proposed regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that are likely of material interest to companies across industries and highlights...more
10/15/2019
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Information ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Right to Delete
Our Data Privacy & Security Team examines how the California Consumer Privacy Act could reset data breach litigation....more
Are You Ready for Canada’s New Privacy Breach Rules? Mandatory privacy breach notification, reporting, and record-keeping obligations under Canada’s federal data protection law, the Personal Information Protection and...more
6/12/2019
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Regulation S-P ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Our Privacy & Data Security Group applies five lessons learned from preparing for Europe’s carefully crafted General Data Protection Regulation to California’s hastily adopted Consumer Privacy Act....more
10/1/2018
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action
Our Privacy & Data Security Group reviews the Eleventh Circuit’s decision narrowing the FTC’s authority to impose broad cybersecurity measures on defendants, but cautions it would be a mistake to interpret the ruling as...more
An English-Language Primer on Germany’s GDPR Implementation Statute. Expanding on his recent article for Bloomberg BNA, Alston & Bird associate Dan Felz offers a multipart primer on Germany’s new GDPR implementation statute....more
10/4/2017
/ Article 29 Working Party (WP29) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
EU ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Germany ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
NIST ,
Popular ,
UK
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Published, Commencing Two-Year Countdown to Application. One of the most important EU legislative initiatives in recent years, and a landmark in privacy regulation worldwide, the GDPR...more
8/23/2016
/ APEC ,
Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) ,
Data Security ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
NIS Directive ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Spokeo v Robins ,
TCPA ,
Warning Letters
Special Focus on “Safe Harbor 2.0,” Privacy Shield and E.U. Data Transfers: Alston & Bird’s privacy team has been closely following the development of Privacy Shield, the proposed successor to the E.U.-U.S. Safe Harbor...more
5/3/2016
/ Article 29 Working Party (WP29) ,
Big Data ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) ,
Data Breach ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Export Controls ,
FCC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Hackers ,
HIPAA Audits ,
International Data Transfers ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Iran ,
PCI-DSS Standard ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Turkey ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
While most of the attention in the EU data landscape in late 2015 and early 2016 was focused on the Schrems decision, negotiations regarding the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and passage of the General Data Protection Regulation...more
Cybercrime and data security incidents are on the rise. Publicized cyber incidents have become so prevalent that it would be difficult to find someone who has not received at least one breach notification letter in the mail....more
Senior Counsel Peter Swire to Debate European Privacy Activist Max Schrems. The debate, set to take place on January 26 in Brussels, will highlight key differences between certain European and U.S. attitudes towards U.S....more
1/11/2016
/ Cloud Computing ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
FCC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FTC v Wyndham ,
Germany ,
Incident Response Plans ,
LabMD ,
NIS Directive ,
Popular ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Surveillance ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework ,
Vendors ,
Young Lawyers