By: Kirk Nahra , Arianna Evers , Ali Jessani , Genesis Ruano , and Samuel Kane , WILMERHALE This article is intended to give privacy officers and other privacy professionals an overview of how commercial privacy issues are regulated in the United States. While...
By: D. Reed Freeman Jr., ARENTFOX SCHIFF LLP THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE PRINCIPLE OF DATA MINIMIZATION in the context of commercial applications of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology and tools. In the United States, the principle of data...
By: Nolan Goldberg and Anisha Shenai-Khatkhate , Proskauer Rose LLP Ransomware attacks have become a prevalent cybersecurity threat. These attacks pose significant legal and financial risks to both individuals and organizations. This article addresses steps to...
PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS CANNOT IMPOSE FEES ON NON-MEMBERS, SUPREME COURT RULES PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS CANNOT REQUIRE NON-MEMBERS to contribute to expenses related to union business, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, overturning a 41-year-old decision. Janus v. AFSCME...
By: Nicholas R. Merker, Ice Miller LLP The deadline for organizations to comply with the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is upon us. 1 As of May 25, 2018, all entities covered under the GDPR must be able to demonstrate their compliance...
By: L. Stephen Bowers , Andrew F. Susko , and Daniel J. Ferhat , White and Williams LLP Medical data companies are reportedly 1 volunteering to join the fight against COVID-19 by offering to broadly share confidential, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...
FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE SET BY THE CALIFORNIA legislature,which enacted a sweeping data privacy statute in June 2018, state legislatures have begun to enact, or at least propose, similar laws to give consumers greater control over their personal information. As states...
By: Sunil Shenoi , Erica Williams , Brian Kavanaugh , Gianni Cutri , and Lauren Casazza , Kirkland & Ellis LLP This article provides companies with key issues to consider before, during, and after a ransomware attack. Recently, there have been a number of...
By: David Bender Special Counsel, Data Privacy, GTC Law Group. Since 2000, the Safe Harbor program has provided a relatively painless way for U.S. companies to import into the United States the personal information of European Union (EU) residents in compliance...
ABA Releases New Guidelines For Lawyers Who Experience Data Breaches By: Lexis Practice Advisor Attorney Team THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (ABA) RECENTLY issued Formal Opinion 483, addressing lawyers’ ethical obligations to their clients after a data...
Broader Implications of CALIFORNIA’S SWEEPING ONLINE DATA PRIVACY STATUTE THE SIGNING OF A WIDE-RANGING DATA PRIVACY LAW in California should serve as a signal to all businesses that collect personal information about state residents to review and update...
SAN FRANCISCO ADOPTS ORDINANCE BANNING CITY’S USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY SAN FRANCISCO HAS BECOME THE FIRST CITY IN THE United States to ban the use of facial recognition technology to identify individuals. As a result, city agencies, including...
By: Aravind Swaminathan , David T. Cohen , Rochelle Swartz , and Nicholas Farnsworth Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP A recent decision from the Supreme Court of Illinois heightens the risks faced by companies collecting biometric information by... A recent...
By: Chad Perlov - LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE OHIO DATA PROTECTION Act’s (ODPA) new legal safe harbor against data breach claims and how to comply with the requirements set out in the statute. Effective November 2, 2018, businesses...
Lexis Practice Advisor subscribers may access a complete Coronavirus Resource Kit by following this link . CORONAVIRUS SPREAD CREATES UNCERTAINTY FOR BUSINESSES AND THEIR COUNSEL AS THE CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES ITS SPREAD FROM China to Europe and the United States...