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NFL Draft Provides Wake-Up Call on Protecting Confidential Information While Working Remotely

Paul Hastings LLP on 5/5/2025

Last week’s NFL draft highlighted more than the accomplishments of athletes at the combine or on the field. While there was extensive coverage of the merits of each player, one of the major headlines coming out of the draft...more

The Great Encryption Standoff: Apple vs. the UK’s Surveillance Push

HaystackID on 2/11/2025

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

Data Privacy for the Future: Strategies to Limit Digital Risk and Liability

J.S. Held on 1/30/2025

Your perspectives and perceptions towards a problem drive your approach to solving that problem. Managing data privacy challenges are no different. Therefore, to address today’s issues, it is a worthwhile exercise to review...more

California Employment News: The Use of A.I. in the Workplace – Privacy & Confidentiality Concerns

Weintraub Tobin on 10/24/2023

While AI has been a revolutionary development that can streamline and improve many workplace tasks, it also comes with legal hurdles that need to be carefully navigated. Meagan Bainbridge and Lukas Clary review some of the...more

AD Nauseam: The FTC’s Updated Endorsement Guides: Get into the Groove

BakerHostetler on 8/23/2023

On today’s episode of AD Nauseam, Amy, Daniel and Sarah will focus on a real hot topic – dealing with endorsements and testimonials from multiple angles and viewpoints. Questions & Comments: dkaufman@bakerlaw.com;...more

Senate Majority Leader Schumer Continues Push for AI Framework

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 6/26/2023

On Wednesday, June 21, 2023, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) unveiled the five policy objectives underpinning his ongoing work on a legislative framework to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI)—the Security,...more

Accountable AI Systems through Risk Management: NIST Creates Inaugural Framework with Principles and Playbook

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/30/2023

On January 26, 2023, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Risk Management Framework (AI Risk Management Framework 1.0), a voluntary guidance document for...more

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, Issue 15, 2022

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 8/5/2022

Data Privacy, Abortion Limits Set to Collide Post-Roe "Even before the June 24 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, privacy advocates, concerned that data on women seeking abortions could be used to target...more

The Privacy and Antitrust Paradox in the Age of Data

Proskauer Rose LLP on 2/21/2022

It used to be privacy was largely the domain of constitutional law and patient health care law: the Fourth Amendment, and then the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)....more

New cyber security and software update rules in the automotive industry in 2022

Hogan Lovells on 1/12/2022

Cyber security and software updates are becoming increasingly important, particularly for companies in the automotive and mobility industry. Main drivers are particularly new automated/autonomous driving and connectivity...more

Lincoln’s Law in the Digital Age: DOJ to Expand Use of the False Claims Act to Enforce Cybersecurity Requirements

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 10/20/2021

The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently announced a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative (the “Initiative”) that will use the False Claim Act (“FCA”) to pursue contractors and grant recipients that knowingly...more

Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters on 6/24/2021

Published on June 9, 2021, President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting America’s Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries is the latest Executive Order seeking to strengthen national security by improving public and...more

Amazon Sidewalk Shares Your Home WiFi with the Neighbors

Womble Bond Dickinson on 6/23/2021

We always suspected that the Amazon Echo resting quietly in your family room was more insidious than it seemed. Now we have confirmation. We know that the Echo can hear us. We also know that it records private conversations...more

Aerospace & Defense Insights | New technologies come with new litigation risks

Hogan Lovells on 4/30/2021

Through Aerospace & Defense Insights, we share with you the top legal and political issues affecting the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry. Our A&D industry team monitors the latest developments to help our clients stay in...more

DOL Issues First Ever Cybersecurity Guidance

Stinson - Benefits Notes Blog on 4/16/2021

On April 14, 2021, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration issued guidance on cybersecurity for the first time to help plan sponsors, fiduciaries, service providers, and participants protect...more

The UK Sets Out to Prove That You Are You

Womble Bond Dickinson on 2/16/2021

There is a reason we don’t all have a definitive digital identifier. I am describing a digital ID to be used by everybody for everything we do online – any bank would know you anywhere and know what funds it could give...more

Developing a Right-Sized Privacy Program

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/26/2021

Later this week, January 28, 2021 will mark International Privacy Day: a day corporations release educational efforts around privacy and data protection. There are many reasons to approach privacy proactively in 2021: (1)...more

More data, more risk: The automotive industry rethinks its privacy strategies

Hogan Lovells on 11/18/2020

As the risk of ransomware attacks and data breaches continues to escalate, it’s also raising greater concerns about data privacy. The automotive industry has been steadily increasing the amount of data it collects from car...more

"Hi Alexa, can I trust you?"?

Spirit Legal on 10/2/2020

My team and I regularly carry out Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) according to Art. 35 GDPR with regard to the deployment of Voice Assistants for private and public bodies in Germany. This article shows my...more

Privacy Tip #249 – Use of Personal Assistants While Working from Home

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/28/2020

I continue to be quite surprised at the lack of understanding that people have about personal assistants such as Alexa and Echo. It seems logical to me that when you yell out “Alexa, turn on the lights!”...more

Privacy vs. Pandemic Control in South Korea

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/2/2020

The Republic of Korea (South Korea or ROK) had been tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus in a manner sensitive to the privacy of its citizens, but the government has now admitted that personally identifiable data is...more

Why Privacy Matters

Womble Bond Dickinson on 6/5/2020

Although it seems that every day less people care about their privacy, the ability to maintain parts of your life as private remains crucial to our democracy, our economy, and our personal wellbeing. Many people expose their...more

Zoom Successfully Addresses New York’s Privacy and Security Concerns

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 6/1/2020

A few weeks ago on this blog, we addressed some of the legal issues that have arisen for Zoom, as it becomes a significant part of American daily life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among those legal issues was an inquiry...more

Reopening the Economy and Getting Back to Business: Privacy Concerns with Health Data Collection and Contact Tracing

Polsinelli on 5/15/2020

As we continue our series on steps business owners should take to mitigate the risk of reopening, it is clear from the guidance that has been issued by several states that effective screening and contact tracing are issues...more

Competition Bureau Intends to Police Privacy Violations—Beware of Potential Fines

Bennett Jones LLP on 1/27/2020

Violations of privacy—already overseen by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (as well as provincial privacy commissioners)—may soon be subject to fines under the federal Competition Act. In a statement yesterday...more

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