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Life With GDPR: Episode 104 – Solar Winds and Your Mother – Tell The Truth
No Password Required: American University’s Vice Provost for Research and Innovation and a Tracker of (Cyber) Unicorns
Snooping Sadia Talks to Former Official Gene Fishel — Unauthorized Access Podcast
Life With GDPR: Critical Perspectives on Big Law Firm Cybersecurity
No Password Required: Chief Adversarial Officer at Secure Yeti, a DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador, and a World-Class Awkward Hugger
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: How International and Domestic Regulatory Enforcement Spotlights the Information Governance Tensions Between ‘There’ and ‘Here’ and Between ‘Keep’ and ‘Delete’
Marketing Minute with NP Strategy (Video): How to Respond to a Cyber Security Breach
Life With GDPR – Lessons Learned from The Singtel Opus Data Breach
State AG Pulse | CT AG Reacts to Genetic Data Breach
Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: State Privacy and Data Collection
On June 28, Pennsylvania took a significant step to enhance its data protection framework by updating the Breach of Personal Information Notification Act through the enactment of SB 824. This new legislation revises the older...more
Much of the focus on US privacy has been US state laws, and the potential of a federal privacy law. This focus can lead one to forget, however, that US privacy and data security law follows a patchwork approach both at a...more
On April 25, 2024, the attorneys general of 22 states issued a letter encouraging UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiary, Change Healthcare, to take additional steps to respond to a massively disruptive cyberattack. The broad,...more
The evolving use of artificial intelligence (AI) across different industries has thrust states into a difficult and rapidly developing regulatory arena. State Attorneys General have and will continue to play an essential role...more
Connecticut was one of the first U.S. states to pass a comprehensive data privacy law back in May 2022. Today, a total of 13 states have passed similar laws, and dozens of other states are proposing legislation to do so as...more
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - What is the Privacy Impact of the White House AI Order for Businesses? Posted November 28, 2023 Biden’s sweeping AI Executive Order sought to have artificial intelligence used in accordance...more
Iowa becomes the fourth U.S. state to provide an affirmative defense for companies that adopt a cybersecurity framework - Iowa is the fourth state—following Ohio, Connecticut, and Utah—to provide a statutory incentive for...more
In our June Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we review new data privacy laws in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida and Montana; Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report; AM Best’s report on cyber insurance trends; and...more
Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more
As we wrote in November, Pennsylvania amended its data breach notification laws last year, and those changes go into effect tomorrow (May 2, 2023). Beginning tomorrow, if a breach of username/email accounts and their...more
The onslaught of ransomware attacks by cybercriminals increases unabated every year, affecting everyone from mom and pop shops on Main Street to corporate lions of Wall Street. Hackers infiltrate an organization's computer...more
Indiana has made a minor amendment to its data breach notification law. Starting July 1, companies who are obligated to notify under the law must do so (to affected individuals and the Indiana Attorney General) without...more
US News - Utah Will Soon Publish US’s Latest Comprehensive State Privacy Law - The Utah Consumer Privacy Act, also known as Senate Bill 227, recently cleared the Senate and the House. Though there are a few more steps...more
Over the last several months, a minority of states amended their data breach notification statutes or enacted sector-specific breach notification requirements. ...more
This week the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning of an increase in ransomware risks over the Labor Day holiday weekend – when offices are normally...more
It has been a busy summer for data breach and cybersecurity laws. Several states have shortened their data breach notification timelines, expanded their definitions of personal data breaches triggering notification...more
Connecticut has become the third state to enact a cybersecurity safe harbor statute. On June 16 and July 6, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed two new cybersecurity laws that continue the national trend of...more
Ransomware has become the fastest growing type of cybercrime facing businesses today. In 2021, loss values were estimated to have reached at least 57 times those in 2015, exceeding $20 billion. Data and privacy issues are so...more
Keypoint: Florida moved one step closer to passing consumer data privacy legislation although differences between the House and Senate bills need to be resolved if the legislation is to pass the legislature. On April 21,...more
Only four months in and 2021 has already been a big year for state cybersecurity safe harbor legislation. Two states, Utah and Connecticut, have recently enacted or introduced a breach litigation safe harbor to incentivize...more
In mid-March, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed into law the Cybersecurity Affirmative Defense Act (HB80) (“the Act”), an amendment to Utah’s data breach notification law, creating several affirmative defenses for persons...more
Keypoint: New Utah law creates incentive for businesses to develop and implement a written cybersecurity program to protect themselves against data breach lawsuits. On March 11, 2021, Utah governor Spencer Cox signed the...more
On February 4, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) released Insurance Circular Letter No. 2 (2021), a Cyber Insurance Risk Framework (Framework) for insurers that write cyber insurance....more
Though the final results of the 2020 presidential race took a few days to become clear, it was obvious by the morning of November 4 that cannabis legalization had run the table: from deep red Montana, South Dakota, and...more
Data privacy laws in two of the most populous US states have been transformed this year with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act coming into...more