On Oct. 24, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a proposed decision and order against Drizly LLC and its CEO regarding allegations that the company’s security failures led to a data breach exposing the personal...more
On May 10, 2022, Connecticut became the fifth state to enact a comprehensive privacy law to protect personal data, joining California, Virginia, Colorado and Utah. Although privacy and data security laws have existed in the...more
On March 15, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (the Act) into law as part of the $1.5 trillion fiscal 2022 omnibus spending package. The Act will create a mandatory...more
On Oct. 6, 2021, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced the creation of a Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative (the Initiative). According to the announcement, the Initiative combines the DOJ’s...more
On July 7, 2021, Colorado’s governor signed into law the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), which follows similar privacy laws enacted in California and Virginia and is consistent with an expanding national trend. ...more
On June 4, the European Commission (EC) adopted two sets of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for use between controllers and processers in the European Economic Area (EEA) and for the transfer of data between EEA and...more
6/17/2021
/ Cybersecurity ,
Data Controller ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
On Oct. 30, 2020, the United Kingdom’s data protection authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), in connection with France’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), announced the largest...more
11/5/2020
/ British Airways ,
CNIL ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
Marriott ,
Popular
New York is gearing up to enact some of the toughest cybersecurity, privacy and data protection laws in the country. Modeled on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer...more
7/18/2019
/ Biometric Information ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Notification Requirements ,
Pending Legislation ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
SHIELD Act ,
State and Local Government ,
State Data Breach Notification Statutes
Evidence gathering differs greatly between common law and civil law jurisdictions. For example, while a U.S. judge may in many instances allow extensive pretrial discovery, a French judge would generally consider nearly any...more
4/5/2019
/ Blocking Statutes ,
CLOUD Act ,
CNIL ,
Cross-Border ,
Data Protection ,
Discovery ,
Evidence ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
France ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Hague Convention ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Regulatory Standards
On Jan. 21, 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) levied a 50 million euros sanction against Google LLC for violating the EU General Data Protection Regulation2 (GDPR) in the context of the first enforcement...more
2/27/2019
/ CNIL ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Protection ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
Fines ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Google ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Regulatory Violations ,
Transparency
This Update highlights key legal and policy developments in cybersecurity and privacy law that may impact important trends for 2019 and beyond. A central takeaway from 2018 is that regulators in the U.S. and abroad are...more
1/28/2019
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Carpenter v US ,
CLOUD Act ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
Facebook ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Google ,
Hackers ,
International Data Transfers ,
Marriott ,
Microsoft ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Power Plants ,
Risk Management ,
Russia ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Stored Communications Act
On June 28, 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) was signed into law. The bill was drafted and passed quickly, just prior to a deadline for removing a similar initiative from the ballot that would have...more