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Compliance into the Weeds: Leaving on a (Qatari) Jet Plane
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Choosing Your LDA Reporting Path for 2025
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 305: Spotlight on Civil Procedure (Part 2 – Discovery)
Compliance Tip of the Day: Clarifying Compliance Mandates
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: How to Use the Restatement of Consumer Contracts - A Guide for Judges
Compliance Tip of the Day: Corporate Leaks and Compliance
Greenhushing: What It Is & Why It Matters
(Podcast) The Briefing: Navigating the Legal Risks for Brands in Social Media Marketing – Part 2 (Archive)
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AI Washing: Simple Guidance to Avoid Risk
Tech Debt is Common. What does it mean for IPO readiness from a cybersecurity perspective?
Episode 332 -- Deep Dive into SEC’s Internal Controls and Cybersecurity Settlement with R&R Donnelly
Mitigating Political-Law Risk
The Preferred Return Podcast | AIFMD II – Implementation Begins
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Meeting the Proposed SEC Climate Disclosure Requirements
The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) has issued a new statement introducing a significant change in the interpretation of the law and in the required methods for obtaining consent to the collection and processing of...more
As of this writing, the CAM4 security incident remains the largest data breach in history. The attack on the website exposed nearly 11 billion records, including users' names, email addresses, sexual orientations, chat...more
On September 7, 2023, the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (SDAIA) issued the Implementing Regulations of the Personal Data Protection Law (the Implementing Regulations) and the Regulations on Personal...more
Data Privacy Week was an opportune time to consider the important issue of how we as a society determine when privacy takes precedence in conflicts between data access and data privacy. A recent such example was the November...more
The British Virgin Islands ("BVI") Data Protection Act, 2021 ("DPA") came into force on 9 July 2021. It was introduced so the BVI would have a data protection framework which is broadly similar to EU and UK standards. To...more
Editor’s Note: On January 18, 2023, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on China’s emerging statutes and regulations governing the processing, disclosure, and transfer of data. As Chinese entities increasingly become...more
On September 2, 2021, EU regulators fined Facebook-owned chat service, WhatsApp, £225 million (around $266 million) for failing to fully disclose its user data collection and sharing practices. This is the second largest fine...more
In March of 2021, Virginia became the second state to adopt a comprehensive data protection law. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, borrows many concepts from the...more
RECHT ODER PFLICHT ZUR OFFENLEGUNG DER IDENTITÄT INFIZIERTER MITARBEITER? Immer wieder seit Ausbruch der Pandemie stehen Arbeitgeber vor der Frage, ob, in welcher Weise und gegenüber wem sie die Identität eines...more
U.S. companies will face restrictions on transferring and storing information about European residents after the European Court of Justice ruled that such transfers exposed Europeans to American government surveillance...more
More than 60 U.S. and global data protection authorities and governmental agencies have issued guidance on health data collection, COVID-19 diagnosis disclosure, work-at-home practices, and return-to-work approaches. The...more
January 14, 2020, the Board of Regents formally adopted Part 121 to the Commissioner’s Regulations to implement Education Law § 2-d. The regulation will become effective January 29, 2020. This regulation primarily addresses...more
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) caused consternation in organizations worldwide, before and after the new law came into effect on May 25, last year. The introduction of the GDPR came with many...more
The Denmark Data Protection Authority (DPA) ruled on April 11, 2019 that affirmative consent is required when companies record customer telephone calls. ...more
The CCPA is an unprecedented privacy law that grants California residents sweeping rights concerning the collection and use of their information. Once the law becomes effective on January 1, 2020, covered businesses can...more
On January 21, 2019, the French data protection supervisory authority (“CNIL”) fined Google €50 million (approximately $57 million) for violating the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). ...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
On 21 January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “French DPA”) fined Google LLC 50 million euros for breach of the GDPR. As we reported on this blog, just after GDPR became applicable, noyb.eu (None of Your...more
UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - NIST Releases Internal Report Regarding IoT Cybersecurity - In September, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") released a draft...more
The European Parliament has adopted a non-legislative resolution entitled "distributed ledger technologies and blockchains: building trust with disintermediation." Of particular relevance to the financial services sector, the...more
As the most comprehensive privacy law to be enacted in the United States thus far, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has inevitably invited comparisons to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation...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
This has been a big year in the data protection world, with the headline-grabbing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) occupying most of the spotlight with its plethora of privacy-related requirements and potential for...more
On 27 December 2016, the Belgian Law of 18 December 2016 concerning various health-related matters (“the Sunshine Act”) was adopted by the Belgian Ministry for Public Health....more
Class Actions - Facebook Cannot Evade Suit Under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act Even Where No Proof of Harm - In separate rulings handed down last week in the Northern District of California, the court...more