While some states have existing laws governing certain aspects of the use of AI, on May 17, Colorado became the first state to enact comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) legislation. Senate Bill 24-205, “Concerning...more
In today’s digital age, cybersecurity has become a paramount concern for executives navigating the complexities of their corporate ecosystems. With resources often limited and the ever-present threat of cyberattacks,...more
AI has great capability to both harm and to protect in a cybersecurity context. As with the development of any new technology, the benefits provided through correct and successful use of AI are inevitably coupled with the...more
Join industry leaders and legal professionals as they step through a cyber incident response scenario and give real-time perspectives from the viewpoint of forensic investigation and mitigation, legal, cyber insurance, and...more
10/12/2023
/ Crisis Management ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Insurance ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Events ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Risk Mitigation
The term “Artificial Intelligence” is not helpful to our public discourse. Artificial Intelligence is not intelligent. The term encompasses too much, is poorly defined, and therefore can’t be discussed...more
The Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA) takes effect January 1, 2025. Delaware generally followed the Connecticut model, but has some unique terms. We provide a non-exhaustive list of some of Delaware’s requirements...more
On July 26, 2023, the SEC adopted new rules to enhance and standardize disclosures pertaining to cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and material cybersecurity incidents.
The SEC's decision to introduce...more
8/1/2023
/ Compliance ,
Corporate Governance ,
Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cybersecurity ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Form 8-K ,
New Rules ,
Regulation S-K ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
On Friday, July 21, 2023, the White House announced that Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI voluntarily committed to numerous principles for the responsible development of artificial...more
2023 is shaping up to be a landmark year for data privacy, on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, four new state laws go into effect – two on July 1 – while California is expanding its already robust requirements, and...more
7/18/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biometric Information ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Mapping ,
Data Privacy ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Geolocation ,
Information Reports ,
International Data Transfers ,
Privacy Framework ,
Privacy Laws ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
State Privacy Laws ,
Strategic Planning ,
Surveys ,
UK ,
UK Data Protection Act
On July 10, 2023, the EU Commission approved the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-US DPF”) as a valid transfer mechanism for sharing personal data from European Economic Area countries (those in the EU plus Iceland,...more
7/13/2023
/ Adequacy Requirement ,
Data Privacy ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
European Economic Area (EEA) ,
Framework Agreement ,
Iceland ,
International Data Transfers ,
Liechtenstein ,
Norway ,
Popular ,
Self-Certification ,
Switzerland ,
UK
Connecticut’s privacy law takes effect on July 1, with some key changes after the governor signed Senate Bill 3 on June 26. Some portions of the amendments concerning newly defined “consumer health law” will have immediate...more
US state legislatures continue to consider and pass consumer privacy laws. Many of them have similarities, but they also have significant differences. The divergence in the laws can create issues in your data strategy and...more
The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) and the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) take effect on July 1, 2023. The CPA regulations take effect at the same time. And if you are subject to California’s laws, this is the enforcement...more
2023 is shaping up to be a landmark year for data privacy, as comprehensive consumer privacy laws take effect in four states and a fifth state expands its already robust privacy compliance requirements. As part of Womble Bond...more
In this fraught and fractured time, wouldn’t we benefit from some humanizing assurance?
Rather than the tinny machine-generated sounds we absorb from our technology, or the universal impersonal voices chosen by Google,...more
The public internet has been around for about thirty years and consumers’ browser-based graphic-heavy experience has existed for about twenty-five years. In the early days, commercial websites operated without privacy...more
In May 2017, the world of data privacy was irreparably changed when four members of the Chinese military hacked into credit-reporting company Equifax, exposing the personal information of nearly 150 million Americans. The...more
6/22/2022
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Compliance ,
Compliance Dates ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Popular ,
State Privacy Laws ,
Surveys
New omnibus privacy laws are coming to Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Connecticut in 2023. Updates to California’s existing privacy law arrive in 2023 too. Don’t wait to implement your compliance updates as it could require...more
This article amends our prior article on new US state omnibus privacy laws coming in 2023: January 1: the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (which amends the existing CCPA) (CPRA) and the Virginia Consumer Data...more
New omnibus privacy laws are coming to Virginia, Colorado, and Utah in 2023. Updates to California’s existing privacy law are coming in 2023 too....more
If you read the hype, then you will have read that lack of regulation, speed of transactions, irreversibility of trades, and hidden identities are positive features of the crypto world. Crypto enthusiasts say that finance can...more
4/28/2022
/ Bitcoin ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Crypto Exchanges ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ,
Financial Transactions ,
Fraud ,
Hackers ,
Investment Fraud ,
Korea ,
Ponzi Scheme ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Romania ,
Russia ,
Scams
If you are not paying for a service on the Internet, you are the product being sold to paying customers. But if you are paying for the service, can you be the product too? Of course....more
4/22/2022
/ Amazon ,
Credit Karma ,
Data Collection ,
Data-Sharing ,
E-Commerce ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Google ,
H&R Block ,
Internet ,
Internet Marketing ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Subscription Services ,
TurboTax
Certain information generated by your company, even the results of entire investigations, may be legally protected from exposure to people outside the company. While this seems like the holy grail to executives worried about...more
Utah has just become the fourth state to pass an omnibus consumer privacy law. The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”) was signed into law on March 24, 2022.
UCPA is modeled after Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act...more
Cyberinsurance spurs many complaints from US business. The cost is skyrocketing, retentions (deductibles) are rising quickly, and the insurance companies push their own panel lawyers on customers despite other relationships....more
3/24/2022
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Insurance ,
Hackers ,
Lloyds of London ,
Malware ,
Military Conflict ,
Policy Exclusions ,
Policy Terms ,
Ransomware ,
Russia ,
Ukraine