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
The Privacy Insider Podcast Ep. 7: David, Goliath, and Data Privacy Part II: Max Schrems
When AI Meets PI: Assessing and Governing AI from a Privacy Perspective
The American Privacy Right Act (APRA) explained
Navigating the Regulation Jungle: How to Be Compliant, Work Efficiently, and Stay Sane
Healthcare Document Retention
Legal Alert | Wiretap Laws in the United States
Business Better Podcast Episode: Cyber Adviser – A Comparison of AI Regulatory Frameworks
Cost of Noncompliance: More Than Just Fines
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
No Password Required: MITRE Engage Lead, Innovator in Cyber Deception, and Dance Community Builder
Navigating State Privacy Laws: A Conversation with Oregon & Texas Regulators about Privacy Enforcement
The Team Continues to Grow: A Conversation With Our Newest Colleague, Kaitlin Clemens — Unauthorized Access Podcast
Episode 326 -- Dottie Schindlinger on Diligent's Report on Board Oversight of Cybersecurity Risks and Performance
[Webinar] Midyear Data Privacy Check-in: Trends & Key Updates
Information Security and ISO 27001
Decoding Privacy Laws: Insights for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
On Wednesday, the UK Government published its new Data (Use and Access) Bill with a promise that it will ‘harness the enormous power of data to boost the UK economy by GBP10 billion’ and ‘unlock the secure and effective use...more
This is the final note in a three-part series on the regulation of artificial intelligence in the financial services sector in the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom. Our first note, we provided a...more
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office recently issued a report on Quantum technologies and data protection. What are we discussing with clients?...more
Latham & Watkins and Privacy Laws & Business recently co-hosted a webinar looking back on the first eight months since the UK-US Data Bridge entered into force. Speakers from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and...more
New BIPA Ruling: Dismissal of Claims Against Samsung Over its Face App Data - On July 24, 2024, a federal judge in Illinois dismissed the case GT v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., in which a putative class of Samsung...more
On 17 July 2024, the King’s Speech and associated background briefing notes were presented and published. These contain a summary of the new government’s plans, including two proposed bills that relate to changes to the UK’s...more
Introduction The UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) imposes extensive obligations on certain types of online service providers to protect users from illegal and harmful content. A key focus of the OSA is the protection of children...more
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
To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
The Information Commissioner's Office (the "ICO") has clarified the methods it will use to calculate the fines it will issue for breaches of data privacy law in the UK by publishing its latest Data Protection Fining Guidance...more
The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office has issued guidance on the accuracy of artificial intelligence Some key points: •For generative AI models, both developers and deployers must consider the impact that...more
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator, has published an opinion on age assurance for internet society services (ISS). The opinion aims to explain how a company can use technology in...more
Understanding the ICO’s approach to assessing financial penalties should be a key element of an organisation’s data protection strategy and risk profile. In an era when data protection infringements can tarnish business...more
On February 23, 2024, the Office of the Information Commissioner (“ICO”), the U.K.’s data privacy regulator, issued new guidance for employers about the use of biometrics in the workplace. Along with this new guidance, the...more
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued guidance on content moderation technologies and processes for the first time (the Guidance). In its press release on 16 February 2024, the ICO flagged the need for content...more
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) launched a campaign called ‘Think. Check. Share’ (the Campaign) on 29 January 2024, to promote responsible data sharing to safeguard children. The Campaign aims to provide...more
FTC Announces Proposed Settlement with Data Aggregator over its Alleged Selling of Precise Location Data - The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), on January 18, 2024, announced a proposed settlement with InMarket Media...more
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently published an update on its enforcement efforts in respect of website cookie compliance. It follows a letter the ICO sent in November 2023 to 53 of the top 100 UK...more
There’s so much activity around generative AI! This is a hot topic for us data privacy folks as it presents new challenges for the protection of personal data. Call us sad, but we get very excited about it!...more
On January 15, 2024, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) launched a consultation series on generative artificial intelligence (AI), examining how aspects of data protection law should apply to the development and...more
This blog notes some of the key features of the Addendum. At its core, the Addendum can be used in relation to both controller BCRs and processor BCRs. Organisations then have a choice as to whether they use the Addendum in...more
Following a re-think of the process for the authorisation of UK BCR after Brexit, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has devised a new mechanism to significantly streamline approvals. The new process, which was...more
On 10 October 2023, the England and Wales Court of Appeal handed down its decision in Delo, R. (On the Application Of) v. The Information Commissioner1, in which it upheld an earlier High Court ruling that the UK’s data...more
On 3 October 2023, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published new guidance on workplace monitoring. The previous guidance was issued in 2011, as part of the ICO’s Employment Practices Code, and was badly in...more
Closely following the establishment of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) – see our July 2023 post – the UK has now agreed to an extension for the transfer of personal data from the UK to the US, known as the UK Extension...more