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Stikeman Elliott LLP

Transferring Data from the EU: What to Take Away from the Recent Google Analytics GDPR Rulings

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Companies using Google Analytics (“Analytics”) or similar platforms may be interested in recent rulings of several European data protection authorities that found Analytics data transfers to the U.S. to be non-compliant with...more

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Eleventh Circuit Holds Transmitting Consumer Information to Third Parties Exposes Debt Collectors to Liability under the FDCPA

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In a decision that could throw the debt-collection industry into turmoil, on April 21, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals released its opinion in the case Hunstein v. Preferred Collection & Mgmt. Servs., Inc., No....more

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AG Says ePrivacy Applies to Government Access to Communications Data

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On January 15, the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) Advocate General (AG) Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona delivered his Opinion on four references for preliminary rulings on the topic of retention of and access...more

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New PDPC guidelines on cloud services, data intermediaries, and access requests

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As the issues surrounding data protection become increasingly complex, in recent years the advisory guidelines (Guidelines) issued by the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore (PDPC) have been invaluable in guiding...more

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A new model for obtaining data protection consents: unbundling the proposed amendments to China's Personal Information Security...

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On 1 February, 2019, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee issued an amended version of the GB/T 35372-2017 Information Technology – Personal Information Security Specification for public...more

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The UK Cyber Essentials Requirements for IT Infrastructure provides a window into GDPR expectations for data security requirements

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The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in May 2018, requires companies to implement appropriate security measures when handling personal data....more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2018 #3

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Public Service Announcement on August 2, 2018, entitled “Cyber Actors Use Internet of Things Devices as Proxies for Anonymity and Pursuit of Malicious Cyber Activities,”...more

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CFPB Issues “Principles” For The Protection Of Consumer Authorized Data Sharing And Aggregation

With the growth of technology and the development of the fintech market, an unprecedented amount of consumer financial data has become available. While protections through the FTC Safeguard Rule and EFTA provide certain...more

Snell & Wilmer

FTC’s “Stick With Security” #4: Store Sensitive Information Securely & Protect It During Transmission

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On August 18, 2017, the FTC released its fourth “Stick with Security” principle, which explained the importance of keeping confidential data only when needed, and securely storing the data when it must be kept. To that end,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Cybersecurity Steps Every Lawyer Should Consider

All lawyers face technology threats, ranging from the inconvenient to practice-threatening disasters. From unauthorized access, lawyers risk having confidential information stolen, destroyed or made inaccessible. Hackers...more

Morgan Lewis

China's Cybersecurity Law and Draft Implementation Rules

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The law applies to all “network operators” and introduces cybersecurity mechanisms. On November 7, 2016, the Chinese government released a draft version of the Cybersecurity Law (CSL) that will govern China’s cyberspace...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Der Markteintritt für deutsche IT Firmen aus dem Bereich des Gesundheitswesens

With expenditures of over $ 3 trillion of market in the field of health care in the United States is huge. Incentives of the Federal Government for the introduction of electronic medical records resulted increasingly in the...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

Transferring Customer Data in an Asset Sale

In today’s world, consumer data is a huge asset for companies across all industries, in particular those in technology-focused spaces like social media, apps, wearables, and retailers involved in e-commerce. The value of such...more

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Laws Governing Data Security and Privacy – U.S. Jurisdictions at a Glance

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The below chart constitutes a summary of the laws of various jurisdictions that govern data breach notifications...more

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