Perkins Coie’s Privacy & Security practice maintains this comprehensive chart of state laws regarding security breach notification. The chart is for informational purposes only and is intended as an aid in understanding each...more
11/26/2024
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As the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, it also becomes a prime opportunity for cybercriminals to target retailers, their suppliers, and their customers. As The Hacker News reports, criminal use of artificial...more
11/22/2024
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Cyber Attacks ,
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Data Protection ,
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Technology Sector
Perkins Coie's Privacy & Security practice maintains this comprehensive chart of state laws regarding security breach notification. The chart is for informational purposes only and is intended as an aid in understanding each...more
10/19/2023
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Class Action ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Information Security ,
Notification Requirements ,
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Privacy Laws ,
State Privacy Laws
As U.S.-based companies await a decision by the European Union (EU) regarding data transfers, the European process for approving the EU-U.S. data privacy framework has progressed a step. The European Commission released a...more
Perkins Coie's Privacy & Security practice maintains a comprehensive chart that summarizes state laws regarding security breach notification. The chart is for informational purposes only and is intended as an aid in...more
The Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) on July 16, 2020, invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield as an approved mechanism for transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States. This decision...more
7/22/2020
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Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
As more and larger data breaches come to light, states continue to update and expand their breach notification statutes, adding to the patchwork of notification obligations that now exists in every state. Generally speaking,...more
Computer systems around the world have been impacted by the largest cyber-extortion attack in history. According to news reports, the “ransomware” attack hit more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries since it started on...more
5/16/2017
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Forensic Examination ,
Hackers ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Microsoft ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Ransomware
The spring legislative sessions this year brought a now-familiar round of revisions to data breach notification laws, with states broadening their laws in often divergent ways. This year, Illinois, Nebraska, and Tennessee...more
Two days after the expiration of the informal deadline to replace the Safe Harbor Framework invalidated by the Court of Justice of the European Union in October 2015, the EU and US have come to terms on a new framework—the...more
In four of the last five years, California’s legislature has updated its data breach notification law, expanding its scope and making the required notifications more specific. This year, the legislature passed three separate...more
Since at least 2005, the Federal Trade Commission has asserted that it may regulate lax data security practices as an “unfair” business practice under Section 5 of the FTC Act. The Wyndham hotel chain was the first to...more
8/27/2015
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Credit Cards ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Debit Cards ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Fraudulent Charges ,
FTC Act ,
FTC v Wyndham ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
SCOTUS ,
Section 5 ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices ,
Wyndham