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K2 Integrity

Social Media Day: Educating Employees On The Risks Of Social Media

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Social media is used by both organizations and employees—as a marketing tool for business, for entertainment, or for interacting with friends and family....more

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Advocate Aurora Health to Pay $12.25 Million Settlement for Data Breach Class Action

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In October 2022, Advocate Aurora Health notified 3 million individuals of a data breach resulting from its use of tracking pixels on its website for tracking website visitor activity. Now, this month, Advocate Aurora Health...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

2021 Privacy and Cybersecurity Year in Review

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FTC Activities in 2021 and Likely Trends for 2022 2021 saw the kickoff of the Khan era at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). During FTC Chair Lina Khan's first nine months on the job, she has announced privacy and security...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Why Businesses Need to Invest in Cybersecurity and How We Can Help

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As businesses continue to grapple with challenges related to labor shortages, logistics, and lingering uncertainties surrounding the pandemic, Curtis Reed, Chicago Region Manager for Middle Market Banking & Specialized...more

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NJ Infertility Clinic Reaches $495,000 Data Breach Settlement

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The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced on October 12 that Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause, LLC, based in Millburn, NJ, will pay a $495,000 penalty for allegedly violating HIPAA and state law by...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Wrapping Your Privacy Practices Up with a Bow

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For many companies, the "hap-happiest season of all" coincides with the busiest season of all. Business owners and employees are racing to fill customer orders in time for the holidays, which also means an avalanche of new...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - November 2017

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In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we discuss a Washington state court decision allowing a data breach lawsuit to move forward on a negligence claim, a Ninth Circuit ruling regarding releasing...more

K2 Integrity

Don’t Let Hackers Profit from Your Privacy

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These days, data sharing is more than a business—it’s an industry. Every day, data aggregators and brokers comb the internet for personal information. Because they rarely engage directly with us, we are dangerously unaware of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Cybersecurity Myths Debunked

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Security incidents, loss of customer data, exposure of confidential corporate assets, demands of ransom, and similar stories are becoming daily headlines with the impacts being felt across a wide variety of industries. We...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Internet Law in a Trump Presidency

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In a Democracy, transitions in leadership happen more frequently than in any other form of government. And with those transitions, some previous policies and orders are preserved and some are reversed. This approach to...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Information Security and Privacy Group News: Cybersecurity Conference Essential Take-Aways Government, Industry and Legal...

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Representatives of Connecticut businesses and corporations, educational institutions, and state and local government attended Murtha Cullina’s March 2016 Cybersecurity Conference at the Quinnipiac University School of Law....more

Nossaman LLP

The Evolving World of Privacy and Data Security Covered at Nossaman-UCI Cyber Symposium

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On October 12, Nossaman and UC Irvine hosted their first annual cyber symposium at the Los Angeles City Club. The event brought experts together to discuss a variety of critical issues in the worlds of privacy and data...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

When a Cyber Attack Has Physical Impact

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October ordinarily brings the return of crisp air, fall foliage, and Halloween. This year, for the first time, it also brings National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Yet designating a month to increase cybersecurity...more

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What is reasonable? The emerging legalities of cybersecurity post-Wyndham

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This month’s edition of the Advanced Cyber Security Center’s newletter includes my discussion of lessons to be learned from the Wyndham decision: Historically, security was an issue reserved in a back room for the IT...more

BakerHostetler

The SEC OCIE Announces Increased Scrutiny of Broker-Dealers’ and Investment Advisers’ Cybersecurity Programs

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On September 15, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a National Exam Program Risk Alert (2015 Risk Alert) to provide broker-dealers and investment...more

Troutman Pepper

SEC Releases First Cybersecurity Enforcement Action for Failure to Protect Client Data

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The SEC’s focus in the action was not on the manner of the firm’s responses to the breach or whether there was any actual harm, but predominantly on the adequacy of the firm’s written policies for safeguarding customer...more

Saul Ewing LLP

$750,000 Settlement Agreement Reiterates Importance of HIPAA Security Rule Compliance

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On September 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced that it had entered into a Settlement Agreement with an Indiana-based medical practice for alleged violations of the Health Insurance...more

King & Spalding

Also In the News - Data, Privacy, & Security Practice Report - August 2015

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King & Spalding Client Alert On Unprecedented Hacking And Trading Scheme — On August 11, 2015, prosecutors in the District of New Jersey and the Eastern District of New York unsealed indictments against several individuals...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Federal appeals court confirms FTC authority to regulate cybersecurity policies and procedures

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Banks and other companies subject to the CFPB’s jurisdiction face the possibility that the CFPB could begin using its authority under Sections 1031 and 1036 of the Dodd-Frank Act (which proscribe unfair, deceptive or abusive...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Third Circuit affirms FTC’s jurisdiction over security practices in Wyndham case

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In a strongly worded opinion, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday slammed Wyndham Worldwide Corporation’s arguments that the FTC did not have jurisdiction to enforce the security practices of businesses following a...more

Bilzin Sumberg

New Potential Liability for Data Security: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Announces FTC has Authority to Scrutinize a...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit announced that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the authority to scrutinize a business’s data security protocol -- and to file a complaint if the FTC finds that protocol...more

Polsinelli

Cybersecurity for Startups Now a Cost of Entry for Consideration by Larger Clients: What is Your Company's Plan?

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For technology startups, maintaining strong security controls remains vital to winning new business opportunities and strengthening existing relationships. Despite the global spike in cybersecurity attacks (there were 42.8...more

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Ashley Madison and Coming to “Terms” with Data Protection

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A recent massive data hack of an online dating site Ashley Madison once again proves that what one publishes, says, or does online, even in seemingly private forums, is never completely private. It’s also a reminder that the...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Healthcare Organizations not Immune from Criminal Attacks on Sensitive Information

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This month, the Ponemon Institute released its Fifth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data and its findings are generating a good deal of attention. In the past, the Study has found that most data...more

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Inspector General’s Report Criticizes the Department of Homeland Security for Inadequate Privacy Policies and Controls

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On November 14, 2014, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a report critical of the agency’s performance in protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and...more

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