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Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 60

Dechert LLP on 8/19/2024

New BIPA Ruling: Dismissal of Claims Against Samsung Over its Face App Data - On July 24, 2024, a federal judge in Illinois dismissed the case GT v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., in which a putative class of Samsung...more

Privacy Versus Cyber – What is the Bigger Risk?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/11/2024

“Cybersecurity” has emerged as one of top risks facing organizations. Considering the steady stream of massive data breaches affecting millions (sometimes billions), the debilitating effects of ransomware on an organization’s...more

US Senators Propose COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/6/2020

At the beginning of 2020, a Federal privacy law, similar to that of GDPR or PIPEDA, was a faint and distant reality. However, in light of some mobile device and other monitoring being considered because of the COVID-19...more

EU’s Highest Court Crumbles Cookie Consent Via Pre-Checked Box

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/16/2019

In the latest General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) news, the European Union (EU) Court of Justice ruled that companies cannot use pre-checked boxes to obtain consumer consent to be tracked with cookies and must instead...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2018 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/26/2018

A new report issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF) called “Global Risks Report 2018,” lists the threat of cyber-warfare and cyber-attacks affecting the public as the world’s third greatest threat in 2018, only behind...more

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