We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
Driving Digital Security: The FTC's Safeguards Rule Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
No Password Required: SVP at SpyCloud Labs, Former Army Investigator, and Current Breakfast Champion
No Password Required Podcast: Chief Product Officer at ThreatLocker and Advocate of Buc-ee’s, Mascots, and Buc-ee Mascots
No Password Required: Director and Cybersecurity Adviser at KPMG and Rain Culture Authority
AI Talk With Juliana Neelbauer - Episode Two - Cybersecurity Insurance: The New Frontier of Risk Management
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability to the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response Data Mining
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability and Reduce the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response
Unlock Privacy ROI: Why Making Cross-Functional Allies is Key
No Password Required: USF Cybercrime Professor, Former Federal Agent, and Vintage Computer Archivist
Episode 334 -- District Court Dismisses Bulk of SEC Claims Against Solarwinds
Monumental Win in Data Breach Class Action: A Case Study — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Cost of Noncompliance: More Than Just Fines
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 14: How Employers Can Navigate Cybersecurity Issues with Brandon Robinson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney
FBI Lockbit Takedown: What Does It Mean for Your Company?
Privacy Officer's Roadmap: Data Breach and Ransomware Defense – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast
Decoding Cyber Threats: Protecting Critical Infrastructure in a Digital World — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Life With GDPR: Episode 104 – Solar Winds and Your Mother – Tell The Truth
No Password Required: American University’s Vice Provost for Research and Innovation and a Tracker of (Cyber) Unicorns
Following their recent meeting in Finland, the EU Data Protection Authorities acting through the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced their intention to release new tools and ran EU-wide data breach notification...more
Valuable insights into the measures European regulators expect businesses to take to protect data privacy can be found in a report from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) summarizing decisions under the EU’s General...more
The opinion was issued in response to a request by the French Data Protection Authority and provides guidance on the conditions for determining a controller's main establishment where that controller has establishments in...more
Background - On April 4th, 2023, the European Data Protection Board (‘EDPB’), which is composed of representatives of the EU national supervisory authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor (‘EDPS’), published an...more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) held its 77th plenary meeting on 28 March 2023. The EDPB considered the following key topics...more
Last week, the European Data Protection Board ("EDPB") published a long-awaited update of its guidance on breach notification—which did not contain much news generally. However, it does bring a significant new burden for...more
On October 18, 2022, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published a proposed updated version of its regulatory guidance on personal data breaches under the EU GDPR (the “Proposed Updated Guidance”). The Proposed...more
On May 12, 2022, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its long-awaited Guidelines 04/2022 on the calculation of fines under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). After many data protection authorities...more
On May 16, 2022, the European Data Protection Board (‘EDPB’) published draft regulatory guidelines (‘draft guidance’) on the calculation of administrative fines for infringements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation...more
Following a public consultation on an initial version released last January, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) last month adopted a final version of its Guidelines on Examples regarding Personal Data Breach...more
FTC Warns Companies to Remediate Log4j Security Vulnerability - Log4j is a ubiquitous piece of software used to record activities in a wide range of systems found in consumer-facing products and services. Recently, a...more
While everyone hoped that 2021 would be less tumultuous than 2020, it certainly did not turn out that way in the end. The same was true in the world of data privacy – with sweeping new data protection regulations and guidance...more
On Monday, 3 January 2022, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published the finalized version of its regulatory guidance entitled “Examples regarding Personal Data Breach Notification” (the “Guidelines”), following a...more
Best Practices for the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act - The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDA) Working Group of the Joint Commission on Technology and Science released its final report on best practices...more
Welcome to this month's issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice. The rapid pace at which technology and data privacy and security...more
The EDPB issued an opinion on the draft Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) for a controller-processor data processing agreement under Article 28 (Data Processing Agreements) submitted by the Lithuanian supervisory authority. ...more
This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more
In certain cases, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires entities that experience a personal data breach to provide notice of the incident to relevant national supervisory authorities and the individuals whose...more
Many supervisory authorities across Europe have reported increasing numbers of data breach notifications since the introduction of GDPR. While most companies are now familiar with the 72-hour reporting obligation for...more
In honor of Data Privacy Day, we provide the following “Top 10 for 2021.” While the list is by no means exhaustive, it does provide some hot topics for organizations to consider in 2021...more
United States - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standard - NIST Unveils Draft Guidance to Protect Critical Infrastructure - On October 22, 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST")...more
Twitter is likely to suffer significant fines in the EU for its handling of a data incident, but regulators are conflicted about their response. In late 2018, Twitter experienced a data breach involving an exploitation of a...more
In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more
Since the first enforcement actions have been initiated, some with significant fines, many companies may find themselves somewhat at a loss as they may not fully know how to assess the risks involved and how to react should...more
EU Court Allows Class Action to Proceed, Sets Precedent for Future Data Breach Class Actions - A class action brought against Google will be allowed to move forward after the plaintiff’s appeal was permitted, allowing him to...more