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Executives Personally Sued for Data Privacy Incidents

If you manage a company that collects and otherwise processes personal data (which is just about every company, these days), you may need to protect your own pocketbook.  As governments across the globe continue to enact and...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds That Employers Have Duty to Protect Their Employees’ Data

Dittman v. UPMC, 196 A.3d 1036 (Pa. 2018).  The Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that employers have a legal duty to use reasonable care to safeguard sensitive personal information of their employees when the employer chooses...more

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A Framework of Due Diligence of Data in an M&A Transaction

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The broad adoption of technologies that collect, analyze, store and distribute data is disrupting a number of industries. It is also proving to be a challenge for lawyers attempting to apply existing laws and regulations to...more

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Minimizing Risk and Liability from Man in the Middle Attacks (or, How to Keep Your Company’s Wire Transfers from Going Awry)

Imagine this scenario: you’ve had a productive and mutually advantageous ongoing contractual relationship of several years with another party. You have built up quite a bit of trust over the years, and communicate regularly...more

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Should You Go “All In” with the Cloud? (And How to Manage That Risk)

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While references to “the cloud” and “cloud computing” are significantly more familiar than they were five years ago, it remains clear that many organizations implement cloud resources ineffectively – or at least do not...more

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OnRisk: Biometric Insurance

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Issues of digital privacy are multi-faceted and extend far beyond the now-routine data breaches that make headlines. The digital collection, use, and storage of biometric information (fingerprints, retinal or iris scans,...more

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Working Towards GDPR Compliance – Practical Steps for US-Headquartered Life Sciences Companies

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The European Union is replacing its current privacy laws with a new, comprehensive General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect May 25, 2018. The essential principles of the EU’s privacy laws are unchanged,...more

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Group liability for Data Protection Failure – A New Threat for Private Equity Firms?

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As European data protection regulators prepare to enforce the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) from May 2018, private equity firms must act to minimise the risk of becoming financially liable for the data protection...more

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Data Processor GDPR Checklist

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A major change with the GDPR is that data processors now have direct legal obligations under EU privacy law. This is a significant shift from the current EU Directive which only directly obligates the data controllers....more

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Cyber-Security Corporate Governance: Three Essential Steps To Form A Cyber-Security SWAT Team

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Last year, Canadian Lawyer InHouse Magazine posed the question, "Should in-house counsel be asking more questions about the strength of their company's cyber systems…" and they cited the Association of Corporate Counsel 2012...more

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An Overview of the 2014 Class Action Survey

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To read the full 2014 Class Action Survey report, please visit ClassActionSurvey.com. Fifty-two percent of major companies are currently engaged in class action litigation. This percentage has remained fairly consistent...more

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