It’s no secret that the cyber threat landscape has intensified since spring 2020, when many businesses switched to remote work in rapid fashion—sometimes delaying safeguards. But now, even if you have some cybersecurity protections in place, heightened...
Review this checklist for guidance on key data security and privacy business planning issues to consider for companies impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. READ NOW » Related Content Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Kit: Data Privacy and Cybersecurity...
This month, Practical Guidance is publishing new social media privacy state law Q&As for all 51 jurisdictions. These Q&As address whether a state has enacted social media account privacy legislation, describes the conduct that these state laws prohibit...
Review this checklist for guidance on developing business continuity plans (BCP), Emergency Action Plans (EAP), and Disaster Response Plans. It provides policies and procedures that a company should implement if there is a significant disruption to its business...
Access this practice note for guidance on cybersecurity measures available to employers to protect their confidential information and trade secrets. READ NOW » Related Content Workplace Internal Data Security Best Practices Resource Kit Check out...
Access this survey for an overview of each state’s laws regulating the disposal or destruction of records containing sensitive personally identifying information stored by an organization. READ NOW » Related Content Privacy Policies: Drafting...
Review this form of risk factors that describes cybersecurity issues and potential risks, and may be included in a public company’s annual and periodic reports, registration statements, and other offering documents and filings with the U.S. Securities and...
Review the new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulatory enforcement tracker for prominent recent guidance and enforcement actions undertaken by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
This month, Practical Guidance is publishing new telemarketing privacy state law Q&As for all 51 jurisdictions. These Q&As provide an overview of how states regulate unsolicited commercial telephonic solicitation of traditional and wireless subscribers...
This Incident Response Plan template provides a company-wide framework for informing staff and managers of the actions to take on discovering a personal data breach (including a cybersecurity breach). It reflects reporting requirements required under the General...
A large section of the legal industry has gone digital as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic—something experts didn’t think we’d see anytime soon. Yet with so many firm employees spending more time online, it means that cybercriminal activity...
From the start, consumer class action lawsuits have been designed to right wrongs committed against a group of similarly situated consumers. And from the start, lawyers and courts have wrestled with the problem of how to make class members aware of relief available...
Following on the heels of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, commonly referred to as GDPR , comes CCPA, the California Consumer Privacy Act. It’s California’s effort to enhance consumer data privacy at the state level. CCPA...
In the spring of 2019, Capital One ® suffered a massive data breach that affected more than 100 million of its customers. Personal information compromised in the breach includes physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, self-reported income, credit...
Very few innovations have had such an immediate and indelible impact on human behavior as the mobile phone. But what’s even more fascinating is its blistering-fast evolution from brick-shaped audio handset to pocket-sized, do-it-all communications computer...