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DOJ’s Latest Guidance on the Data Security Program – What’s New?

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/17/2025

The new Department of Justice (DOJ) Data Security Program (DSP) took effect on April 8....more

Kentucky’s Consumer Privacy Law Is Coming, But on a Slow Track

Mintz on 1/2/2025

To round out this year’s series on new state consumer privacy laws, we are covering the statute passed by Kentucky earlier this year. Please also keep your eye out for our 2024 round-up article that will be published soon, as...more

Movie Theater Data Breach Leads to Settlement and Class Action Lawsuits

Troutman Pepper Locke on 12/9/2024

New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James and global movie theater operator National Amusements, Inc. (National) settled a lawsuit stemming from a 2022 data breach reported by National, which affected 82,128 National...more

A Corporate Lawyer's Guide To Data Privacy & Data Protection

Reveal on 11/6/2024

Privacy laws bring substantial compliance challenges for every organization that collects, processes, stores, and transfers personal data anywhere in the world. For legal departments, compliance professionals and internal...more

Right To Know - June 2024, Vol. 18

Clark Hill PLC on 6/10/2024

Cyber, Privacy, and Technology Report - Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed....more

Privacy Briefs: May 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/12/2023

Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more

China is Entering a New Era in Data Protections

Goodwin on 2/4/2022

On November 1, 2021, the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”) (the “Personal Information Protection Law”) went into effect, two months after the Data Security Law of the PRC (the...more

Wait, that’s covered? Insurability of Fines and Penalties Flowing From a Cybersecurity Breach

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 1/20/2022

Despite the great strides companies have made to mitigate the risks associated with security breaches, including putting insurance in place to cover those risks, cyber criminals have remained two steps ahead, finding new and...more

China's New Data Privacy Law is Sweeping and Serious: Avoid the High Cost of Noncompliance

Bracewell LLP on 8/25/2021

Last Friday, China passed the world’s harshest data privacy law, threatening violators with fines of up to 50 million Yuan (or about $7.7 million at the time of publication) or 5% of annual revenue. The Personal Information...more

[Webinar] China Data Protection Legislation in the Making: Implications Beyond China’s Borders - June 29th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

Wiley Rein LLP on 6/15/2021

China's draft Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) has just gone through the second reading and is now near final form and expected to be finalized very soon. Once promulgated, it will be the first comprehensive law on...more

New DIFC Data Protection Law in Force - What You Need to Know

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/2/2020

On October 1, 2020, the three-month grace period for businesses to comply with the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Data Protection Law (DIFC Law No. 5 of 2020) (“DPL 2020”) came to an end. Regulating the...more

Data Privacy Bill Introduced in Washington State

Morgan Lewis on 1/29/2020

Washington may be the next state to enact its own data privacy law after a bill was introduced into the Washington State Senate earlier this month. Known as the Washington Privacy Act, the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Reuven Carlyle,...more

The Scariest Data Privacy Breaches of 2019

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 10/31/2019

With it being Halloween, October being National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and 2019 drawing to an end, let’s take a look at the data privacy breaches giving compliance professionals a fright this year! ...more

California Consumer Privacy Act: The Challenge Ahead — Introduction to Hogan Lovells’ Blog Series

Hogan Lovells on 9/13/2018

Groundbreaking. Watershed. Unprecedented. - We have heard the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) called all these things and more since its enactment on June 28, ?2018. Our experience to date has confirmed the...more

California Passes Landmark Consumer Privacy CCPA—What it Means for Businesses

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 7/9/2018

• California recently passed the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act that goes into effect in 2020, which grants California residents new privacy rights. • The CCPA creates a private right of action for California...more

Yahoo’s $35M SEC Settlement: Takeaways from the First Enforcement Action for Failure to Disclose a Data Breach

Fenwick & West LLP on 5/4/2018

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on April 24, 2018, that Yahoo! — now known as Altaba — agreed to pay a $35 million penalty to settle claims that the company failed to timely disclose a 2014 data breach...more

Alabama’s Data Breach Law

Snell & Wilmer on 4/5/2018

All U.S states now have laws about data security and what to do when there’s a data breach. Alabama recently was the 50th state to add such a law, and it takes effect on May 1, 2018. Here are its highlights....more

South Dakota’s New Breach Notification Law

Snell & Wilmer on 4/2/2018

On March 21, 2018, South Dakota became the 49th state to enact a breach notification law, leaving Alabama as the sole U.S. state without one. The South Dakota law will take effect on July 1, 2018. Here is a summary of several...more

The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Investment Managers

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/6/2018

The new European General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (GDPR) will take effect on 25 May 2018. The GDPR expands and clarifies the EU’s existing personal data protection framework. Investment managers...more

Investment Services Regulatory Update - February 2018

Vedder Price on 2/13/2018

New Rules, Proposed Rules, Guidance and Alerts – SEC STAFF GUIDANCE AND ALERTS - SEC Staff Issues Guidance on Cryptocurrency-related Holdings - On January 18, 2018, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment...more

Insurance Regulators Fine Tuning Cybersecurity Guidance

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 10/25/2016

You may not realize how much personal information your insurance company has about you. Scarier still is that much of this data is sensitive and valuable to hackers – such as your Social Security number, financial...more

Data Protection Regulation Proposal Approved by the European Parliament

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/30/2013

The European Parliament has finalized its version of the proposed Data Protection Regulation, which would substantially change personal data protection rules in the 31-country European Economic Area. The Parliament’s LIBE...more

Proposed Amendment to EU Privacy Regulations May Force Choice Between Violating US and EU Law

BakerHostetler on 10/24/2013

On Monday, October 21, 2013, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) voted to approve an amended version of the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulations. Included in the...more

European Parliament Adopts Compromise Amendments on Data Protection Regulation

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 10/24/2013

Introduction - On October 21, 2013, the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE Committee) held its long-awaited vote and adopted compromise amendments that would modify the...more

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