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Top 10 WordPress Website Myths…DEBUNKED!

Legal Internet Solutions Inc. on 2/26/2025

There are several common misconceptions about open-source website content management systems (CMS) that often lead law firms and businesses to hesitate before adopting them...more

New Cyber Security Rules for US Technology Companies Operating in the EU

Womble Bond Dickinson on 11/13/2024

The EU is in the course of passing a range of new cyber security legislation which will apply to US businesses who provide services in the EU. One part of that legislative programme is the new Network and Information Security...more

Ofcom's Draft Children's Safety Codes of Practice – A Developing Regulatory Landscape

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 8/2/2024

Online service providers with platforms accessible to UK children must implement more robust age-verification measures and reformulate algorithms away from "toxic" content under new draft Codes of Practice issued on 8 May...more

Online Safety Act Update: Ofcom Proposes Categorisation Thresholds

Cooley LLP on 4/9/2024

On 25 March 2024, the UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) published its research and advice to the Secretary of State (SoS) on the threshold conditions that it considers appropriate to determine whether a service falls into...more

The UK Online Safety Regime: Five Months On

Mayer Brown on 3/20/2024

When the UK Online Safety Act (the "Act") became law on 26 October 2023, it had established one of the most comprehensive online safety regulatory frameworks in the world. The Act's intention is to make the use of online...more

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Thunderbird and Firefox

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/25/2024

Mozilla recently released security updates to address known vulnerabilities in their Thunderbird and Firefox products. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is recommending that the patches be applied...more

Online safety and social media regulation gains momentum on both sides of the Atlantic – are tech giants ready?

Dechert LLP on 6/8/2022

When the UK Government first introduced the Online Safety Bill (the "Bill") to Parliament, it lauded the Bill as creating "world-leading online safety laws" which "marked a milestone in the fight for a new digital age". The...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2022

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/7/2022

CYBERSECURITY - FTC Warns Companies of Enforcement for Failing to Patch Log4j Vulnerability - In what I would describe as an unusual but interesting move by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), on January 4, 2022, it...more

Privacy Tip #208 – Last Pass Patches Bug that Leaks Passwords

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 9/20/2019

I am not a big fan of putting all of one’s passwords in one place, but many people use password managers. If you use Last Pass (see previous blog posts about Last Pass here and here), be aware that it was recently advised by...more

Yahoo Enters $80 Million Securities Class Action Settlement After Data Breach

Carlton Fields on 3/13/2018

On March 2, Yahoo, Inc. (“Yahoo”) filed a proposed settlement in In re Yahoo Inc. Securities Litigation, which was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. ...more

Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 16

Jones Day on 11/21/2017

UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - United States and China Renew Promise Not to Hack - On October 4, U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to not engage in targeted hacking. Per a...more

Boo! “Witch” one should you have, HTTP or HTTPS?

McManis Faulkner on 10/31/2017

With Halloween season here, it’s important to be aware of the spooks on the web. It is a scary online world, and now more than ever is the time to take measures to strengthen the security of your website....more

Vermont AG Settles with SAManage for $264,000 for Delayed Breach Notification

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/16/2017

The Vermont Attorney General (AG) recently announced that it has settled with SAManage USA, a business support services company, for failing to timely notify 660 Vermont residents that their names and Social Security numbers...more

Yahoo Data Breach Update: A Third Notification + Shareholders Sue

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/24/2017

Last week, Yahoo issued another warning to some of its customers telling them that their personal information may have been compromised in a data breach. This is the third notification to Yahoo users that their information...more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 9.26.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 9/26/2016

The Deal Professor weighs in on Yahoo’s announcement last week of the hack of roughly 500 million of its customers’ data and the specter of the MAC (material adverse change) that Verizon may choose to invoke to dance away...more

Status Updates - November 2014 #12

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 11/26/2014

Forget me not. Twitter launched just eight years ago with this tweet from company co-founder, Jack Dorsey: (Please see photo below.) (Not nearly as dramatic as “Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you”— but I digress.) ...more

The EU's Right to be Forgotten: Overly Burdensome?

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice on 8/5/2014

In May earlier this year, the European Union's top court held in favor of an individual who requested that Google remove the search results associated with his name. In this particular case, a Spanish citizen requested that...more

Data Privacy Law in the UK, Part I: An Introduction for U.S. Employers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/10/2014

The recent high-profile decision by the European Court of Justice involving Google has highlighted the existence of stringent data privacy laws in the European Union (EU). However, although the Google decision was...more

HIPAA Violation Results in $4.8 Million Settlement

Dickinson Wright on 7/10/2014

While most healthcare providers know to pay close attention to the HIPAA rules when setting up their information technology systems, recent events have demonstrated that this close scrutiny should also be applied to computer...more

In Right to Be Forgotten Proceedings, Who Represents the Public Interest?

Perkins Coie on 6/10/2014

In its newly published Fact Sheet on the Right to Be Forgotten, the European Commission has tried to dampen the negative reaction to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) Right to Be Forgotten decision by noting that the right...more

The Right to Be Forgotten, Everywhere

Perkins Coie on 6/5/2014

While most people have focused on the free speech and implementation difficulties of the “right to be forgotten” announced by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v. Agencia Española de...more

Privacy Tuesday – June 3, 2014

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 6/3/2014

The first Tuesday in June is also the first Tuesday of meterological summer -and a welcome sight after a brutally-long winter for many of our readers. So, here’s to a happy Summer! Google Receives 12,000 Take-Down...more

UK Gives Search Engines Time to Comply With 'Right to Be Forgotten'

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 5/23/2014

The UK data protection watchdog has said that it will give search engines like Google some time to put measures in place to respond to requests to take down links in search results. ...more

The Right To Be Forgotten – What Does It Really Mean?

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/23/2014

In a decision with far-reaching consequences, the European Court of Justice (located in Luxembourg) (“ECJ”) ruled on May 13, 2014, that E.U. citizens can demand that search engines – in this instance Google – must delete...more

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