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Hong Kong Proposes the Introduction of a Legal Framework for Regulating Critical Infrastructures

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INTRODUCTION - The acceleration of the rate of cyber-attacks against companies in Hong Kong in the last year or so (with over 60 notifications of such attacks being received by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: March 2024

Research from Guidepoint Security found that 2023 saw an 80% increase in ransomware activity year-over-year, driven in part by multiple mass exploitation campaigns impacting hundreds of organizations. In total, the report...more

Perkins Coie

2023 Breach Notification Law Update: Changes to Notification and Security Requirements Continue at State and Federal Levels

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A flurry of legislative activity over the past year has brought meaningful changes to a variety of privacy and security provisions in state and federal law. At the state level, as in 2022, we have seen a handful of changes to...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Feds Hope to Tighten Timeline for Agency Reporting of Cyberattacks as Congress Debates Federal Data Breach Notification Law

On December 6, 2021, in the Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, the Office of Management and Budget took a more aggressive position on strengthening the nation’s cybersecurity posture. Under this...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Privacy and Data Security Alert | December 2019

SDNY Rejects Standing under “Increased Risk” Theory Where Data Not Targeted or Stolen - The Southern District of New York rejected a settlement that would have resolved a class action based on the unauthorized (and...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Is A Federal Privacy Law In The Cards for 2020?

In May of 2018, the European Union enacted the General Data Protection Rules, or GDPR, a legal framework that outlines not only how companies may collect and process personal information of EU residents, but how that data is...more

Perkins Coie

States Continue to Expand Breach Notification Requirements in 2019

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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

Poyner Spruill LLP

Ten Things To Know About North Carolina's Data Protection Bill

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As Congress continues to wrestle with federal privacy legislation, the states have been lining up alternative proposals. North Carolina has introduced its own bipartisan bill. The bill, H.B 904, will not pass this year. Even...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

A Primer on the SHIELD Act: New York’s Move to Adopt More Stringent Data Security Requirements, Part II

What would companies need to do to comply with the law? The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act imposes requirements in two areas: cybersecurity and data breach notification. The cybersecurity...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

More State Data Security Regulation: North Carolina Bill Penalizes Unreasonable Data Security Practices and Requires Rapid...

In a post-Equifax environment, state-level data security regulation is on the rise. And in many instances, state regulatory regimes are getting tougher....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

States Respond to Equifax Cyber Breach with Enforcement Actions and Calls for Enhanced Regulatory Powers

In the wake of last month’s historic cyber breach of Equifax, which resulted in the theft of sensitive personal information belonging to over 140 million Americans, states have wasted no time in seeking a greater role in...more

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