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Inside TikTok’s U.S. Data Security Operation: A Rare Look at the Battle Over User Data

HaystackID on 3/14/2025

The controversy surrounding TikTok has dominated political discussions for years. Critics claim the app is a national security risk, a data funnel to the Chinese Communist Party, and a vehicle for foreign propaganda. TikTok,...more

Biden Administration Signs Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 11/1/2023

On October 30, President Biden signed a sprawling executive order governing the development, testing, and use of artificial intelligence (AI). Formally titled, "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - March 2023

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/4/2023

In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Iowa’s new data privacy law (the sixth state to enact a privacy law), the Biden administration’s new national cybersecurity strategy, the U.K. government’s revised...more

Forget Spy Balloons - The Bigger Threat is TikTok

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 3/24/2023

After the downing of the Chinese spy balloon by U.S. Forces in early February 2023, several additional objects have been identified over U.S. and Canadian airspace. While officials have denied that these were additional spy...more

It’s Here – The New National Cybersecurity Strategy

Polsinelli on 3/2/2023

Today, after months of rumors regarding its release and contents, the White House issued its National Cybersecurity Strategy “to secure the full benefits of a safe and secure digital ecosystem.” The full strategy is 39 pages...more

Federal Privacy Bill Shows Emerging Patterns in US Privacy Law

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP on 7/29/2022

On July 20, 2022, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced a new federal privacy bill titled the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) to the House floor. Although it is not yet law, many commentators...more

Bill C-26: Introducing Canada’s Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 6/21/2022

On June 14, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-26, An Act Respecting Cyber Security which, among other things, seeks to enact the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (“CCSPA”). The “Backgrounder” that...more

Top 10 for 2022 – Happy Data Privacy Day!

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/28/2022

In honor of Data Privacy Day, we provide the following “Top 10 for 2022.” While the list is by no means exhaustive, it does provide some hot topics for organizations to consider in 2022...more

What We’re Reading – September 2021 - 2

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 9/27/2021

Welcome to Fall 2021! We’re trying to curate some of the week’s privacy and cybersecurity news to keep you up-to-date: CONTI RANSOMWARE ON THE RISE — Another week, another US agency joint advisory on ransomware. The...more

Oklahoma Legislature files privacy law focused on data protection and national security concerns

McAfee & Taft on 9/14/2021

Earlier this year we provided updates on Oklahoma House Bill 1602 (HB 1602), a bipartisan proposal that received national press for being one of the most stringent privacy laws proposed or enacted by a state legislature. Over...more

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