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Employee Theft of Electronic Data Is Not Direct Physical Damage to or Direct Physical Loss of Business Personal Property

Zelle LLP on 2/20/2025

In Site Jab v. Hiscox Insurance Company, Inc., United States District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal recently tackled whether a business owner’s insurance policy provided coverage for theft of information, including confidential...more

5 Trends Shaping Whistleblower Regulations in 2025

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 11/18/2024

In 2025, whistleblower regulations are poised for major evolution, reflecting a renewed commitment to transparency and accountability. The Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI) 2023 survey revealed a startling statistic:...more

The Value of a Platform Approach to Compliance

NAVEX on 7/31/2024

Think of it as the compliance version of The Butterfly Effect – a small, unnoticed, action, or failure to act, somewhere in the organization that balloons over time into a much larger, material issue. Maybe an employee is...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - April 2020

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 5/3/2020

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Washington state's new facial recognition law, the U.K. Supreme Court's ruling that an employer is not liable for a data breach caused by a disgruntled...more

Vicarious Liability for Employee’s Data Breach: Key Takeaways from the U.K. Supreme Court’s Judgment

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/9/2020

On April 1, 2020, the U.K. Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the case of WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12, the first class action-type claim concerning a data breach in the U.K.. In this...more

Frequency and Cost of Insider Threats Continue to Increase

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/11/2020

The Ponemon Institute recently issued its 2020 Cost of insider Threats Global Report, which finds that the frequency and cost of insider threats is continued to increase. Sponsored by ObserveIT and IBM, the 2020 report is the...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2020

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/14/2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 1 (January 2020) - ? A cybersecurity breach temporarily halted cancer radiation treatment services at the Cancer Center of Hawaii on Oahu,[1] the center said. The center, which provides...more

Financial Daily Dose 11.08.2019 | Top Story: US and China Set to Roll Back Tariffs as Part of Trade Deal First Phase

Robins Kaplan LLP on 11/8/2019

The U.S. and China have tentatively [maybe?] agreed that a first phase of a trade agreement “would roll back a portion of the tariffs placed on each other’s products, a significant step toward defusing tensions between the...more

Employer vicariously liable for rogue employee’s data breach

A&O Shearman on 11/30/2018

An employer was held by the Court of Appeal to be vicariously liable for a rogue employee’s deliberate and criminal disclosure of the personal data of other employees. This was despite the employee’s aim being to harm the...more

Supermarket Held Vicariously Liable in UK’s First Data Leak Class Action

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 11/14/2018

UK supermarket chain Morrisons has been held vicariously liable for the acts of a malicious employee in the UK’s first data leak class action. The issue began in 2014, when a disgruntled Morrison’s internal IT auditor posted...more

The Risk of Employee Misconduct

The Volkov Law Group on 7/19/2018

Companies are hyper-focused on third-party risks, especially when it comes to anti-corruption risks. And for good reason – a large percentage of FCPA enforcement actions involve illegal use of third parties to carry out...more

Key Considerations to Protect Against Insider Threats in Cybersecurity

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/30/2018

Most companies have strengthened their cybersecurity defenses against outside hackers, but many often neglect the equal threat posed by those within their network walls — employees who already have privileged access to...more

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