Daily Compliance News: April 24, 2025, The Made in Malaysia Edition
Crashing and Burning: What Companies Can Learn From the Apple TV+ Series WeCrashed - Hiring to Firing Podcast
Is the Patent Litigation Boom Coming to an End?
Apple Loses First 'Big' Case to MobileMedia, Lawyer Says
On February 24, 2025 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that David Gooder would step down from his role as Commissioner for Trademarks at the end of the month....more
In the quiet corridors of Apple’s headquarters, executives face a decision that could reshape the future of digital privacy for billions of users worldwide. The catalyst? A controversial order from the United Kingdom’s...more
In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Aihong Yu, Chief Privacy Counsel of CDK Global, to discuss how embracing privacy and security measures…...more
On Monday, July 24, 2023, Apple issued a security update to address vulnerabilities that have been linked to a spyware campaign. iOS 16.6 fixes 25 iPhone security flaws, several of which are being exploited by threat actors...more
1. A new class action against Apple alleges that the tech giant records detailed information about user activity despite its privacy assurances. According to the plaintiffs, Apple’s own collection of a user’s activity in...more
FTC Warns Companies to Remediate Log4j Security Vulnerability - Log4j is a ubiquitous piece of software used to record activities in a wide range of systems found in consumer-facing products and services. Recently, a...more
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
CYBERSECURITY - Medical Center Rebuilding EMR Following Ransomware Attack - Queen Creek Medical Center (QCMC), also known as Desert Wells Family Medicine, located in Arizona, has notified up to 35,000 patients of a data...more
China Passes Major Data Protection Law as Regulatory Scrutiny on Tech Sector Intensifies - A final version of the law has not been published but a previous draft included rules around requiring consent for data protection...more
CYBERSECURITY - CISA Issues Alert on Top Exploited Vulnerabilities - On July 28, 2021, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a cybersecurity alert entitled “Top Routinely Exploited...more
CYBERSECURITY - Coveware Q1 2021 Report Shows Increase in Ransomware Payments Over Q4 2020 Coveware issued its Q1 2021 - Ransomware Report on April 26, 2021, which concludes that “[D]ata exfiltration extortion continues...more
CYBERSECURITY - Eversource Energy Notifies Customers of Data Breach - Eversource Energy, which is the largest energy supplier in New England with 4.3 million customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New...more
Apple recently announced that app developers must check a series of yes/no boxes that will generate a "nutrition label"-style summary of the app's privacy practices. This new summary, formally called "App Privacy," will be...more
Companies face yet another set of data privacy requirements in this ever-growing legal minefield. Starting Dec. 8, 2020, companies using apps in the Apple iOS ecosystem will be required to provide consumers with a privacy...more
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
There has been a lot of attention in the media lately with respect to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica issue and its fall-out (including today’s coverage of the announcement that Facebook suspended almost 200 apps pending a...more
On 6 February 2018, the EU Commission announced that it had accepted a referral request from a number of EU countries to assess Apple’s acquisition of Shazam, a UK based developer and distributor of music recognition...more
Cybersecurity, encryption, and government surveillance are daily challenges for public officials, corporations, and lawyers. On October 16, the Roger Williams University School of Law will present Cybersecurity and Law...more
The first ever Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection was convened today at Stanford University, keynoted by President Obama. The purpose of the summit: to “bring[] together major stakeholders on consumer financial...more
One hot area of data privacy litigation over the past several years has been data breach class actions brought under the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (“CMIA”), which provides that a person may recover...more
On our last “day of Privacy”, we have a little extra (perhaps a lump of coal….) post: in 2014, cyber risk has been elevated to a board issue – read on and forward to your favorite company director! As we have discussed...more