Cybersecurity requirements continue to proliferate, both globally and within the US. Whether because of these new requirements, or because of the escalating threat environment, companies should urgently consider assessing...more
Imagine a world in which powerful computers can instantaneously break a company’s standard encryption, threatening the most valuable financial data, intellectual property, personal information, and even national security...more
Technological advances, especially in Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing, will continue to amaze in the coming years. They will open up vast new opportunities while presenting profound regulatory, litigation, and...more
3/1/2024
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Last week the FBI Director, CISA Director, NSA Director, and National Cyber Director testified publicly about current and ongoing threats to US critical infrastructure providers by Chinese state-sponsored entities known as...more
2/9/2024
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The year 2023 will continue to have cybersecurity and data privacy front of mind for General Counsels. With sweeping new US and global laws and regulations coming online and the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)...more
3/3/2023
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New York City (NYC) has delayed to April 15, 2023 the enforcement of its first-of-its-type law on bias in artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in employment. Local Law 144 of 2021 prohibits employers in NYC from using...more
2/16/2023
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On October 4, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (the Blueprint), which lays out guidelines for companies to use to protect the public...more
Experts estimate that within the next decade or so, adversaries will have the capacity to use quantum computing to break the encryption on virtually all existing digital databases. This is why it is highly significant...more
On March 24, 2022, the Utah governor signed a consumer privacy law (the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, UCPA), marking the fourth state law to create enhanced data privacy rights and protections for consumers. The law will go into...more
The Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA), passed as part of the omnibus spending bill on March 15, 2022, will require critical infrastructure companies - which could include financial...more