Latest Posts › Data Protection

Share:

Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports [Video]

In this episode of “Lawyers With Game,” host Darius Gambino from Saul Ewing’s Video Gaming and Esports Practice chats with colleagues Sandy Bilus and Evan Foster from Saul Ewing’s Cybersecurity & Privacy group about data...more

Colorado Privacy Act Joins the Compliance Fray

Colorado added to the United States’ patchwork approach to data privacy regulation this week. On July 7, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”), a sweeping law that creates substantial...more

Privacy Law Update: European Commission Adopts New Standard Contractual Clauses for Transfers of Personal Data

On June 4, 2021, the European Commission adopted new sets of Standard Contractual Clauses (New SCCs) that organizations can use when transferring personal data protected by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to...more

Higher Education Institutions and Nonprofit Organizations Face Potential Wave of Lawsuits Over Blackbaud Data Breach

On September 21, 2020, a putative class action lawsuit was filed against the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Bank Street College of Education, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in connection with an alleged...more

European Court of Justice Invalidates Privacy Shield and Holds Standard Data Protection Clauses to Be Valid (maybe!)

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) recently declared that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, used by thousands of businesses to transfer personal data between the EU and U.S., was invalid. [Case C-311/18, Data...more

Federal Court Erodes Work Product Protections for Data Breach Investigations

In a recent decision, a Virginia federal magistrate judge held that the attorney work product doctrine did not protect from discovery a forensic investigation report created for Capital One in the wake of a 2019 data breach....more

Colleges and Universities That Use Behavioral Tracking for Recruiting and Admissions Should Beware Privacy Compliance Pitfalls

Colleges and universities, like many other organizations, have incorporated automated data collection and predictive analytics into their business models and decision-making processes....more

CCPA Amendments and Draft Regulations Provide Some Clarity, Some Uncertainty, and Numerous Compliance Obligations

Last year, the California legislature passed the sweeping California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), a far-reaching privacy law that will impact business across the country. ...more

OMB Introduces New Information Security Audit Objectives for Higher Education Institutions

The United States Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) recently issued a Compliance Supplement for 2019 that includes, for the first time, audit objectives for colleges and universities concerning compliance with the...more

Two New Breach Notification Laws Usher in the (Unofficial) Beginning of Summer

As the unofficial start of summer begins, Washington and New Jersey have recently enacted two new pieces of cybersecurity legislation. ...more

GDPR Year One: Hot Spots for Enforcement Activity

What can organizations learn from the first year of enforcement of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? Quite a bit, if you pay attention to what the EU government regulators are doing....more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Recognizes Employers’ Duty to Safeguard Employees’ Personal Data

In a unanimous ruling that is sure to become a landmark in state litigation over data breaches, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on November 21 held that “an employer has a legal duty to exercise reasonable care to safeguard...more

Five Preliminary Steps for U.S. Organizations to Comply With the GDPR

After coming into effect on May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) poses a compliance challenge to U.S. organizations that handle or control personal data on people who are in the E.U....more

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 Will Impact Businesses Across the Country – Begin the Compliance Process Now

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal and the recent rollout of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California legislators took action to give California consumers more control...more

The Protection of Biometric Information

As states develop new laws directed at the security of biometric identifiers, such as fingerprints and retina scans, institutions of higher education are likely to face a host of new compliance requirements and increased...more

15 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide