California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Phishing Scams

How to Address Cybersecurity Risks In A Private Placement Memorandum

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC on 5/5/2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) requires companies to disclose the most significant factors that make investments in the company speculative or risky. Private Placement Memorandums (“PPMs”) are often used...more

Managing Data Privacy in the COVID-19 Environment – Navigating the Challenges of a Pandemic in 2021

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/1/2021

Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a global market disruption across multiple industries, and manufacturers expect the pandemic to continue to affect the automotive industry through 2021. The pandemic has not...more

Court Denies Motion For Class Certification In Employee W-2 Data Breach Litigation

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 2/3/2021

In recent years, there has been an uptick of W-2 phishing scams, and their consequences for an employer extend well beyond leaked data, including potential employee class action litigation. Just last week, a federal court in...more

Contradictory Responses by Privacy Regulators Post-COVID-19: Balancing the Economy With Cybersecurity in a Changed World (Privacy)

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 6/1/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disparate effect on privacy regulators, with varying levels of enforcement advocated by different government entities; the California Attorney General, the U.S. Department of Health & Human...more

Private Equity and Cybersecurity: Threats, Consequences, and the Regulatory Framework

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment on 5/20/2020

Cybersecurity breaches and threats are pervasive concerns for any entity storing valuable data or managing large sums of money: private investment funds are no exception. Recently three private equity firms suffered breaches...more

California AG Urges Consumers To Be Vigilant While Online During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/15/2020

With California’s mandatory COVID-19 stay-at home orders impacting some 40 million people by forcing the vast majority of them to connect remotely to work, go to school, order necessities, socialize and do many other things,...more

Buchalter Client Alert Covid-19: Cybercrimes

Buchalter on 3/27/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic have opened the floodgates of cybercrime, as hackers are exploiting distracted workers adjusting to working from home. This alert highlights a number of these issues and its relationship with California...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 2/14/2020

Ransomware Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of $20 Billion - Confirming what we are seeing in the field, cybersecurity firm Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in...more

A New Decade of HIPAA – What Can We Expect?

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 12/24/2019

As the decade winds down, it’s hard to believe that the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules are almost twenty years old. It has been ten years since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - September 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/2/2019

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine five amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act, the EU Court of Justice's rulings on the "Right to Be Forgotten" and what qualifies as a joint...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2019 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/15/2019

Following in the footsteps of the New York Department of Financial Regulation (NYDFS) in enacting cybersecurity requirements for the financial services industry, and in response to massive data breaches in the insurance...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/2/2019

In this month's edition, we examine cybersecurity-related state Supreme Court rulings in Pennsylvania, Vermont and Illinois; the Department of Health and Human Services' cybersecurity guidelines for the health care industry;...more

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