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The 5 Things Every Business Needs to Know About the Modern Consumer Privacy Landscape

Fisher Phillips on 11/13/2024

It’s no longer good enough for your business to have a reactive approach to consumer privacy – you need a proactive strategy to manage compliance, foster consumer trust, and stay competitive in this modern era. While many...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 4, April 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/25/2023

Tech Vendors and Cybersecurity – Are They Responsible? It has long been recommended that when you contract with a technology vendor that you include an indemnity clause in the contract wherein the vendor will indemnify you...more

Tech Vendors and Cybersecurity – Are They Responsible?

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/25/2023

It has long been recommended that when you contract with a technology vendor that you include an indemnity clause in the contract wherein the vendor will indemnify you if its product is compromised and results in a data...more

Contact Tracing Vendor Loses State Contract Over Data Breach

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 5/6/2021

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced this week that the Commonwealth will not continue to do business with its contact tracing vendor following a security incident that potentially exposed the personal information of...more

2021 Project: Update Vendor Contracts

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 12/18/2020

Among many other things, 2020 has been the year of vendor security incidents and data breaches. More than ever, we have responded to incidents for clients that were caused not by the client, but by a third-party vendor....more

[Event] CCPA Compliance: An Interactive Workshop - Multiple Dates/Locations, February 11th - 24th

McDermott Will & Emery on 1/16/2020

Effective as of January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives broad rights to people on their personal data in the custody of companies. This focus on data rights significantly raises the compliance burden...more

[Event] CCPA Compliance: An Interactive Workshop - Multiple Dates/Locations, Jan. 22nd - 30th

McDermott Will & Emery on 1/14/2020

Effective as of January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives broad rights to people on their personal data in the custody of companies. This focus on data rights significantly raises the compliance burden...more

Data Breaches and Educational Institutions

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/19/2019

Five things schools, colleges and universities can do this summer to address data privacy and protect against cybersecurity threats. Consider these five steps during your summer break to address the protection of...more

FTC Toughening Stance on Data Security – Five Key Takeaways from Recent Consent Orders

Fenwick & West LLP on 5/30/2019

The Federal Trade Commission is putting more teeth into the multiyear compliance obligations of consent orders it enters into with companies to settle enforcement actions related to data breaches. The FTC recently issued a...more

FTC Cyber Guidance for Small Business has Tips Helpful to All

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 11/13/2018

The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a cyber guide that, while intended for small businesses, can be of help for all businesses. The purpose of the guide, which includes various modules, is to help smaller businesses...more

Five Questions (And Possible Good Answers) Boards of Directors Should Ask About Cybersecurity

White and Williams LLP on 10/2/2018

Data privacy and security can feel overwhelming for a company’s executive management. Unfortunately, that overwhelming feeling can prevent constructive dialogue and action toward improving a company’s cybersecurity program....more

Vulnerable Vendors: Automakers’ Data Breach Highlights Importance of Vendor Cybersecurity

Fisher Phillips on 9/10/2018

This summer, several automakers, including Tesla, Toyota, General Motors, Ford, and Volkswagen learned that their closely held trade secrets were readily available on the internet. The source? An unprotected back-up server....more

Potential Bank Customer Data Exposed through Fiserv Platform Flaw

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 8/29/2018

Security researchers and cybersecurity experts recently discovered a weakness in Fiserv’s web platform, which may have exposed the personal and financial details of customers across hundreds of internet banking sites. The...more

GDPR: Everybody's Doing It—Shouldn't You?

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 5/17/2018

In just a few short days, on May 25, 2018, supervisory authorities in the European Union ("EU") will begin enforcement of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"). The GDPR is a regulation enacted by the EU to...more

Still Thinking about GDPR?

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 5/16/2018

We are now in the 10-day countdown to the GDPR enforcement date that we’ve been talking about since 2015. If you are a charter member of Procrastinators Anonymous, or just secretly hoped that this would all go away, the sands...more

“GDPR” Is Coming: The General Data Protection Regulation

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 4/17/2018

Editor’s Note: Strictly speaking, this blog post isn’t really about human resources management or employment law. But it might be; the GDPR is vaguely written and it is not at all clear how it will be applied in relation to...more

Happy Data Privacy Day! A Few Tips from the MVA Privacy and Data Security Group

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 1/30/2017

Saturday January 28, 2017 is Data Privacy Day. The Moore & Van Allen Privacy and Data Security group took a break from the pre-holiday revelries to put together some thoughts and tips for DataPoints. So hoist a glass and...more

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