Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Privacy and Data Security
Episode 366 -- DOJ Issues Data Security Program Requirements
FCPA Compliance Report: AI, Data Compliance, and Ownership - A Conversation with Andrew Hopkins
Why Privacy Matters to Your Business and What's in Store for 2025
Getting Bang for Your Buck: Spend Your 2025 Privacy Budget Wisely
Constangy Clips Ep. 7- 4 New Year’s Resolutions to Keep Your Cyber Data Safe and Secure in 2025
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 10: 2025 Privacy Predictions: Hold My Beer, 2024
No Password Required: Director and Cybersecurity Adviser at KPMG and Rain Culture Authority
Protect, Prepare, Prevail: Navigating a Complex Cybersecurity World
2024 Privacy Trends and Their Impact on Auto Finance – Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability and Reduce the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response
Crafting an Effective Law Firm Generative AI Policy for Responsible Business Use: On Record PR
2025 Privacy Law Preview: Be Prepared
Podcast - Bowling with Bumpers: Using a Privacy Framework to Set Your Company Up for a Strike
Unlock Privacy ROI: Why Making Cross-Functional Allies is Key
Podcast - Decoding the Future of AI Regulation and Frontier Models
The Privacy Insider Podcast Ep. 8: Privacy Over Party: Peter Swire
No Password Required: Founder of Cybersafe Foundation and an Obama Foundation Africa Leaders Fellow, Who Is Comfortable in the API Kitchen
Podcast - Robots, Rights and New Tech: Balancing Innovation and Data Privacy
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 211: Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks for the Healthcare Industry with Brandon Robinson of Maynard Nexsen
On February 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a $1.5 million civil money penalty (CMP) against Warby Parker, Inc. (WP). WP is a manufacturer and online...more
Our Consumer Protection/FTC and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy teams unpack Starwood Hotels’ and Marriott International’s settlements with the Federal Trade Commission and Marriott’s settlement with state attorneys general...more
This week, Marriott International, Inc. and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide LLC (collectively, Marriott) agreed to settle on the terms of a settlement order with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for its...more
Close on the heels of its Consent Decrees with TracFone and AT&T, on September 27, 2024, the Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it reached a Consent Decree with T-Mobile US, Inc....more
Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 5 (May, 2022) - Compared to other agencies, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a little fish in the big federal pond, but it has an outsize effect on HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and...more
Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 12 (December, 2021) - Amid the letters of congratulations to new HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Director Lisa Pino is a plea from the American Hospital Association (AHA): “victims” of...more
On April 14, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) announced a settlement with National Securities Corporation (“National Securities”), a licensed insurer, in connection with claims under the NYDFS...more
With a notably sharply worded opinion, the Fifth Circuit recently vacated over $4.3 million in penalties levied against the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (M.D. Anderson) by the Department of Health and Human...more
Ransomware has emerged as one of the most virulent cybersecurity risks, affecting public and private sector alike. In recent years, ransomware attacks have become more focused, sophisticated, costly, and numerous. Threat...more
I am hardly saying that SEC Regulation S-P is the sexiest of regulations. I mean, has any customer is history actually read one of those exciting statement stuffers that discloses in some dense font a BD’s privacy policy?...more
Data privacy and security legislation and enforcement saw significant activity in 2018 and early 2019. McDermott’s 2018 Digital Health Year in Review: Focus on Data report – the first in a four-part series – highlights...more
With California enacting a sweeping new data privacy law on June 28, now is the time for companies to review and adjust to how the California Consumer Privacy Act will impact their business. The act, which has broad...more
On June 18, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that an HHS Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) granted summary judgment to OCR in an enforcement action...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - Pentagon Warns CEOs: Protect Your Data or Lose Our Contracts - According to an article from Govexec.com, the Pentagon has issued a warning to defense-industry contractors, insinuating that they...more
It seems as though we have been writing about this case for a lifetime. Target Corporation’s data breach saga came one step closer to a conclusion this week. On Tuesday, Target reached an $18.5 million settlement with 47...more
Results from the SEC’s First Round of Cybersecurity Examinations - On February 3, 2015, the OCIE published a risk alert summarizing its findings from its examinations of over 100 registered investment advisers and...more
On September 22, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. (“R.T. Jones”), a St. Louis-based investment adviser, settled charges that R.T. Jones failed to adopt...more
On Friday, Oct. 2, home design and renovation company, Houzz, Inc., reached a settlement with the Office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris over allegations that Houzz had recorded customer and employee...more
Non-Enforcement Cybersecurity Is At the Top of SEC Examination Concerns In a recent SEC “risk alert” for registered broker-dealers and investment advisers, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE)...more
In recent years, the SEC has been focused on cybersecurity. It has issued risk alerts, conducted examinations and provided guidance about what the agency sees as widespread weaknesses in many policies and procedures to...more
A registered investment adviser agreed to settle SEC charges that it failed to adopt adequate cybersecurity policies and procedures reasonably designed to protect customer records and information as required by Rule 30(a) of...more
On September 22, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the settlement of an enforcement action against a St. Louis-based registered investment adviser (Adviser) brought under Rule 30(a) of Regulation...more
The Federal Trade Commission Act (“FTC Act”) prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices affecting commerce, as well as unfair competition in commerce. The FTC Act also created the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), and...more