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Life With GDPR: Episode 104 – Solar Winds and Your Mother – Tell The Truth
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Snooping Sadia Talks to Former Official Gene Fishel — Unauthorized Access Podcast
Life With GDPR: Critical Perspectives on Big Law Firm Cybersecurity
No Password Required: Chief Adversarial Officer at Secure Yeti, a DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador, and a World-Class Awkward Hugger
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: How International and Domestic Regulatory Enforcement Spotlights the Information Governance Tensions Between ‘There’ and ‘Here’ and Between ‘Keep’ and ‘Delete’
Marketing Minute with NP Strategy (Video): How to Respond to a Cyber Security Breach
Life With GDPR – Lessons Learned from The Singtel Opus Data Breach
State AG Pulse | CT AG Reacts to Genetic Data Breach
Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: State Privacy and Data Collection
SEC Fines the New York Stock Exchange’s Parent Company $10 million for Failure to Promptly Notify Its Subsidiaries of Cybersecurity Breach - On May 22, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) imposed a $10...more
I recently had the chance to visit with Jonathan Armstrong on a recent data breach case that occurred in the health service provider NHS Lanarkshire (Scotland) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This breach serves as a stark...more
The UK’s new Code of Practice for App Store Operators and App Developers provides companies with privacy-related resources. It also highlights ICO privacy expectations. Participating in the code is done by voluntarily...more
SEC Chair Gensler Indicates Commission is Looking to Update SEC’s Regulation S-P - On September 28, 2022, Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or the “Commission”) Chairman Gary Gensler appeared via video at the...more
On 16 June 2022, the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (“the DCMS”) published its response to its Data Reform consultation. The response sets out the UK government’s key data protection reform...more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we review Connecticut’s passage of a comprehensive privacy law (making it the fifth state to do so), the newly enacted federal Better Cybercrime Metrics Act, New York’s new law...more
On March 10 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) handed down its first Monetary Penalty Notice in respect of a ransomware attack and data exfiltration incident under the UK General Data Protection Regulation...more
On September 10, the U.K. government launched a consultation “Data: A New Direction” (Consultation), which proposes significant changes to the U.K.’s data protection framework. The U.K. government has signalled its...more
Since the General Data Protection Regulations ("GDPR") came into force in 2018, companies in the United Kingdom (UK) that have suffered cybersecurity attacks often face civil claims from individuals whose data has been...more
Amazon’s financial records have revealed that the Luxembourg data protection supervisory authority, the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données (“CNPD”), is fining the retailer’s European arm (Amazon Europe Core...more
With the UK now unambiguously out of the EU, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) (“EU GDPR”) has been replaced by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”). In this third instalment of...more
CEP Magazine (January 2021) - After extended investigations and negotiations, the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office levied a fine of £18.4 million against Marriott International Inc. for a data breach...more
United States - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standard - NIST Unveils Draft Guidance to Protect Critical Infrastructure - On October 22, 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST")...more
UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - NIST Releases Revision to Security Standard - On September 23, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") released Revision 5 to...more
Hot on the heels of the £20 million fine issued to British Airways, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO“) has issued Marriott International Inc. (“Marriott“) with a long-awaited penalty notice for its failure to...more
Few will have been surprised that, when the ICO eventually published details of the BA and Marriott fines, the final penalties were very much lower than the £183+ million and £99+ million proposed in the original notices of...more
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) has been extended until March 2021 (meaning the Job Support Scheme did not begin on 1 November) – the government had earlier announced that the CJRS would be extended by a month,...more
On 30 October 2020, the UK’s data privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a final penalty notice (Penalty Notice) to fine the hotel chain Marriott International, Inc. (Marriott) for a GDPR data...more
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently handed down two of the largest fines relating to a data breach in UK history. In August 2018, British Airways (BA) was subject to a cyberattack which breached the...more
On Oct. 30, 2020, the United Kingdom’s data protection authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), in connection with France’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), announced the largest...more
At £20 million, the fine imposed on British Airways (BA) for its infringement of the General Data Protection Regulation is the biggest fine of its kind in the history of the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)....more
When British Airways (“BA”) suffered a significant personal data breach in September 2018, just months after the coming into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), all eyes were on the UK’s Information...more
ConocoPhillips is doubling down on its commitment to the Midland basin by buying Concho Resources Inc. in “an all-stock transaction valued at $9.7 billion,” even “as the American shale-drilling industry is facing a downturn...more
From the ICO’s standpoint, the steps you elect to take post-breach and the speed with which you implement them are key. Demonstrating readiness to learn lessons from a breach incident by making investments in post-breach...more
In this part of our briefing series, we look at how individual reactions to a data breach can shift the dial from a regulator’s perspective. Recent decisions have shown that the ICO will look behind a company’s public...more