The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) announced that on May 9, it will release selected data purported to be leaked or stolen from the internal records of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca....more
As we previously reported, this February, United States (U.S.) and European Union (EU) negotiators announced the “U.S.-EU Privacy Shield” as a replacement to the U.S. Safe Harbor. Many U.S. companies relied on the Safe Harbor...more
More than a billion people on the planet use online messaging service WhatsApp to send and receive messages, photo and videos and to make phone calls over the Internet. Most of WhatsApp’s users are outside the United States....more
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was recently approved by the 28 member states of the Council of European Union. By plenary vote, the European Parliament approved GDPR on April 14.
The GDPR will take effect...more
In late 2014, an anonymous source secretly leaked to a German newspaper reporter nearly four decades of confidential and proprietary data about shell companies registered by the multinational Panamian based law firm Mossack...more
Apple was ordered by a federal magistrate judge to provide “reasonable technical assistance” to federal investigators to unlock the password and access the encrypted data on a specific iPhone 5c used by Syed Farook, one of...more
With the revelations that the Paris and San Bernardino attackers used encrypted communications to recruit, communicate and plan their attacks, the U.S. government is again pushing the tech industry to provide it backdoor...more
German auto manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) is reportedly using German privacy laws to resist turning over its top executives’ internal corporate emails and other communication materials to United States attorneys general and...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in a 2-1 decision, ruled against blanket employer policies banning employees from taking photos or recordings in the workplace. Such policies would, in the view of the NLRB, having a...more
Hundreds of Quincy Credit Union (Massachusetts) customers reported that unauthorized ATM withdrawals were made from their accounts over the holiday weekend. Officials now believe that skimmers were placed on ATM machines in...more
Twitter International Company (TIC) in Dublin, Ireland was reportedly ordered by a High Court to disclose data about the source of tweets about a whistleblower. The tweets, which included allegations of insurance fraud, are...more
10/8/2015
/ Data Protection ,
Defamation ,
Disclosure ,
Gifts ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
Insurance Fraud ,
Ireland ,
Privacy Policy ,
Retaliation ,
Twitter ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently settled its first cybersecurity-related enforcement action against a Missouri based registered investment adviser, R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. (the ...more
10/2/2015
/ Broker-Dealer ,
Compliance ,
Confidential Information ,
Credit Monitoring ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Equity Plans ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Gramm-Leach-Blilely Act ,
Investment Adviser ,
Investment Companies ,
Investment Firms ,
Investment Portfolios ,
OCIE ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Regulation S-P ,
Risk Alert ,
Safeguards Rule ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
An interagency working group led by The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and The Department of Commerce recently published a draft report (the “Report”) recommending that the U.S. government increase its...more
Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) has been amended by The Digital Privacy Act (the “DPA”). DPA updates PIPEDA and modernizes Canadian data privacy and security law. DPA is now...more
8/21/2015
/ Breach Notification Rule ,
Canada ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
DPA ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PIPEDA ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Privacy Laws
A number of courts have considered whether the Fourth Amendment requires the government to obtain a warrant to access historical and/or real time cell phone geographic location information, known as CSLI. CSLI is cell site...more
8/10/2015
/ Cell Phones ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
FL Supreme Court ,
Fourth Amendment ,
Geolocation ,
Popular ,
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy ,
SCOTUS ,
Search Warrant ,
Smartphones ,
Warrantless Searches
The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one step closer to replacing the EU’s 1995 data privacy directive, known as 95/46/EU. In late June, the Council of Ministers from the EU member states...more
Samsung recently announced that about more than 600 million Samsung mobile devices contained a factory installed third party software produced by SwiftKey that predicts the words you will types on your keyboards. The issue...more
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled oral argument for September 9, 2015 on Microsoft’s appeal of a district court opinion upholding the validity of the U.S. government’s search warrant for customer data stored...more
This month, the Ponemon Institute released its Fifth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data and its findings are generating a good deal of attention. In the past, the Study has found that most data...more
Earlier this year, an affiliate of the hedge fund Standard General LP assumed more than 1,700 RadioShack® store leases in an auction sale in the electronics retailer’s bankruptcy. Standard General reportedly plans to partner...more
5/26/2015
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AT&T ,
Business Assets ,
Commercial Bankruptcy ,
Commercial Leases ,
Customer Lists ,
Data Collection ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Popular ,
RadioShack ,
Retailers
College and universities, like many other businesses and organizations, defend against millions of cyberattacks each day. Most recently, Penn State’s College of Engineering discovered a multi-year long cyberattack seeking...more
The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) recently published the results of its cybersecurity survey of more than 150 regulated small, medium, and large banking organizations. The survey asked for...more
Shortly after the discovery of a cybersecurity breach at the health insurance company Anthem, Inc., the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) called for a multi-state examination of Anthem’s cybersecurity...more
Microsoft Corporation’s (Microsoft U.S.) reply brief is due this week in its appeal of The District Court for the Southern District of New York’s order to comply with the U.S. government’s warrant requiring the turnover of a...more
An auction of RadioShack assets which concluded this week included the names and physical addresses of 65 million customers and email addresses of 13 million customers. The auction result and transfer of assets is still...more