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Security Breach Notification Chart - November 2024

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

‘Tis the Season… for Cybercriminals: A Holiday Reminder for Retailers

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

Security Breach Notification Chart - September 2023

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

EU Takes Step Toward Approval of EU-US Data Privacy Framework

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

Security Breach Notification Chart - Revised September 2021

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

EU Court Strikes Down EU-US Privacy Shield

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

States Continue to Expand Breach Notification Requirements in 2019

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

Ransomware: How to Avoid It and What to Do If You Have Been Hit

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

Data Breach Incident Response: 5 Questions to Ask and New Laws to Know Now

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

The New EU-US Privacy Shield: Safe Harbor 2.0

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

Data Breach Notification Law in California and Across the Nation Continues to Evolve

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

Third Circuit Affirms FTC Authority to Police Whether Companies Have Reasonable Data Security

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

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