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The Privacy Insider Podcast Ep. 8: Privacy Over Party: Peter Swire

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There’s a U.S. election coming up in a few weeks. You may have heard something about it. What you haven’t heard as much about in this election cycle is the candidates’ stance on privacy. Why? And will privacy views and...more

Mayer Brown

Investing in or Acquiring a Digital Assets Business? Watch Where You Step – Maximizing Value and Managing Risk in Digital Assets...

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As applications and use cases for digital assets and their blockchain infrastructure grow and become more sophisticated, investments and valuations for businesses in these areas have grown as well. The growing number of...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 10, December 2023

Revisiting…Are Automakers Making Sufficient Efforts to Protect Customer Data? As a follow-up to our previous article and webinar, “Are Automakers Making Sufficient Efforts to Protect Customer Data?", we are addressing the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Latham Chairs AI Component of Global Standards Mapping Initiative

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The initiative covers a wide array of insights and guidance for the blockchain ecosystem, while a Latham-led working group explores the convergence of blockchain and AI. ...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2023

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CYBERSECURITY - Hackers Steal $4.4M Crypto Using Data Linked to LastPass Breach - According to Bleeping Computer, crypto fraud researchers at ZachXBT, and MetaMask developer Taylor Monahan have reported that on October 25,...more

Carlton Fields

No Password Required: CEO of Paragon Cyber Solutions, Family-Night Game Champion, and Calculated-Risk Taker

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Courtney Jackson is the CEO of Paragon Cyber Solutions, a Tampa-based cybersecurity solutions provider. If Courtney’s name sounds familiar, that may be because she was named the Global 2022 Cybersecurity Woman Entrepreneur of...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Project W: Web 2.5 – The Companies That Are Using the Blockchain To Innovate and Solve Big Problems

Saying the word "crypto" will get a visceral reaction in many circles, and if you say you still believe in the future of crypto, you have a high likelihood of being blacklisted.   I get it. It has been a tumultuous 16...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 3, March 2023

Amazon Sued for Not Telling New York Store Customers about Tracking Biometrics - “Thanks to a 2021 law, New York is the only major American city to require businesses to post signs letting customers know they’re tracking...more

Fisher Phillips

Workplace Law Forecast 2023 - Legal predictions to help you prepare for the coming year in workplace law

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It’s never easy to make accurate predictions about what we might expect to see in the workplace in the coming year. After all: - At the start of 2020, no one could have predicted COVID-19. - None of us had heard the phrase...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, Volume 3, Issue 17

CFPB Takes Action to Protect the Public from Shoddy Data Security Practices "The bureau said the circular does not suggest that particular security practices are specifically required under the Consumer Financial...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, Volume 3, Issue 14

Is the U.S. Finally Getting a Comprehensive Cybersecurity and Data Protection Law? What You Need to Know About the Proposed American Data Privacy and Protection Act - In the beginning of the 2000s, as a result of the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, Volume 3, Issue 12

Universities Share Lessons Learned from Ransomware Attacks "According to a recent Sophos poll of IT professionals, 44 percent of educational institutions suffered ransomware attacks in 2020, and 58 percent of those hit...more

Carlton Fields

No Password Required: A Cybersecurity Education Specialist, Whose Passions Include the Forest, DIY, and Deviled Eggs

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Dr. Melissa Dark is the Founder of DARK Enterprises, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and supporting cybersecurity education at the secondary level. Before that, Dr. Dark worked in graduate and college...more

Fisher Phillips

The Top 17 Workplace Law Stories from February 2022

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 3, Issue 3

Concerning Healthcare Data Breach Reporting Trend - "There has been a trend in recent years for HIPAA-regulated entities to wait the full 60 days from the date of discovery of the breach to issue notifications to affected...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 3, Issue 2

BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy Faces Lawsuit Over Healthcare Data Breach - "Florida-based BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy allegedly failed to safeguard PII and notify patients of a healthcare data breach that impacted 350K, the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 3, Issue 1

EHR Vendor Breach Lawsuit Seeks Security Improvements - "Patient portal hacking incident last summer affected nearly 320,000." Why this is important: On October 22, 2021, QRS Inc., a medical practice management system...more

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2022 Trends for Technology Transactions

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In the 2022 edition of our long-running annual podcast, partners in Mayer Brown’s Technology Transactions practice will discuss trends that will drive and shape technology transactions. This year’s program will focus on...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 2, Issue 24

Welcome to our last Decoded issue of 2021. With this last publication, we wanted to do something a little different. We looked at the top issues that affected the industry and our clients over the past year. And, we look...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Treasury to Companies: Time to Take Ransomware Reporting Seriously

On September 21, 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published an updated sanctions advisory, providing guidance to companies on sanctions compliance obligations related to ransomware...more

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Agencies Approve Final Rule: Computer-Security Incident Notification

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In This Issue. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (together, the Agencies) issued a final rule...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Do You Have a Risk-Based Sanctions Compliance Program?: In the Event of a Ransomware Attack, OFAC Wants to Know

In the wake of increased ransomware attacks over the course of the last several months, the US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has updated a guidance it released last year on potential...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2021 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Microsoft Issues Emergency Software Update for PrintNightmare Zero Day Vulnerability - Following the release of a U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (US-CERT) Coordination Center...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2021

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CYBERSECURTY - U.S. CISA + Cyber Command Warns of Critical Flaw in VMware - Although a patch has been available by VMware since May 25, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Explaining Cryptocurrency’s Ransomware Problem

The recent ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS led to a flurry of calls to ban Bitcoin (and cryptocurrency generally) as enabling and incentivizing these attacks. Given the difficulty of tracking the...more

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