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Real Versus Robot: Biometric Vetting in Hiring

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3 Our recent post (Real Versus Robot) focused on the risks inherent in the virtual world of accidentally hiring a bot and provided some tips for ensuring bad AI-actors don't end up working inside an organization. Today's WSJ...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Businesses Have 30 Days to Report a Security Breach of New Yorker’s Private Information

New York State Governor Hochul recently gave us a “pre” New Year’s gift: effective on December 21, 2024, any individuals or businesses possessing the “private information” of New Yorkers must notify them, and certain state...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

New Year, New State Data Privacy Laws

With the advent of a new year comes a new set of consumer data privacy laws in the United States. Five new state data privacy laws go into effect in January 2025, with additional laws coming throughout 2025 and into 2026....more

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BIPA Excludes Health Care Workers Engaged in Treatment, Payment, or Operations

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As previously noted, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has invited a great deal of litigation, often resulting in interpretations favorable toward plaintiffs. As a result, we advise employers who use...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The Importance of Effective Policies and Training in Data Protection: Lessons from a Scottish Hospital Breach

I recently had the chance to visit with Jonathan Armstrong on a recent data breach case that occurred in the health service provider NHS Lanarkshire (Scotland) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This breach serves as a stark...more

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Litigation Minute: Mitigating Class Action Risks Posed by Collecting and Storing Sensitive Data

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS - The collection and storage of sensitive data can not only invite the attention of government agencies, but also that of putative class action plaintiffs. Government inquiries,...more

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[Webinar] PIPL - A Review of China’s New Privacy Law and Insights Into Achieving Compliance and Managing Risks - November 18th,...

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China recently enacted its Personal Information Privacy Law (PIPL), which came into effect November 1, 2021. PIPL has global reach and broadly regulates entities of all industries that process the personal data of Chinese...more

Jenner & Block

Big Tech Ally Could Advise the ICO on Enforcement Action

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Since 2018, the decision-making arsenal of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has included the Regulatory Panel, a body tasked with making independent recommendations to the Commissioner regarding proposed...more

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[Webinar] Effective Use of Privacy Impact Assessments - September 13th, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CDT

Learning Objectives: - What is a PIA and a DPIA? - Who should instigate assessments? - How and when to use assessments? - The relationship between assessments and privacy by design, and legal grounds for processing...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Data Protection & Privacy Laws 2021

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A heightened risk for cyberattacks and data breaches calls for companies to remain diligent as they navigate a patchwork of federal, state, local and sector-specific privacy and data protection laws, regulations and guidance....more

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Virginia poised to enact comprehensive consumer privacy law

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Virginia is on track to be the second U.S. state to enact comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. Both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate have passed nearly identical versions of the Consumer Data...more

K2 Integrity

Digging Deeper Podcast Episode 2: Tales Of Corporate Scams, Frauds, And A Stolen Dali

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When it comes to scams and frauds, it's not just individuals at risk, but also companies. In Episode 2 of Digging Deeper, Chris Morgan Jones interviews Jordan Arnold about corporate scams, and they even discuss cracking the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Is Your Business Collecting COVID-19-Related Employee Data? If so, You May Need to Update Your CCPA Employee Notice

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires businesses covered by the CCPA to notify their employees of the categories of personal information the business collects about employees and the purposes for which the...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2020 #3

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CYBERSECURITY - Patching Gets More and More Complicated but Is Critical for Managing Risk - Patching vulnerabilities has always been challenging, but these days, it is getting more and more complicated as...more

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Nueva guía del Comité Europeo de Protección de Datos sobre (co)responsable y encargado bajo el RGPD

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Aunque los conceptos de responsable y encargado del tratamiento han sido ampliamente estudiados y analizados en el pasado, el Comité Europeo de Protección de Datos ha publicado recientemente una guía en la que, además de...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Good Online Hygiene

With the world in various states of lockdown, your organization’s online presence is more important than ever…even more so with official enforcement of CCPA beginning last month. It may be a good time to spend an afternoon...more

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Germany Publishes Guidance Regarding Fines for GDPR Violations

When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced, one of the central topics in the media was the possibility of large fines for data protection violations. Art. 83 of GDPR set benchmarks with a maximum fine...more

Morgan Lewis

New DIFC Data Protection Law Takes Effect 1 July

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Requirements under a new Dubai International Financial Centre data protection law will apply within the DIFC from 1 July 2020. ...more

Morgan Lewis

Practical Advice on Privacy: CCPA: What Companies Need to Do Ahead of July 1 Enforcement

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With the July 1 enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) less than a month away, the state attorney general has finally submitted the final text of the proposed CCPA regulations to the California Office of...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Mitigate Privacy Risks and Exploit Valuable Data with ECM

The more technologically advanced the world gets, the more there is a need for Privacy Risk Management....more

Carlton Fields

Are You in Compliance With New York’s Newest Requirement to Develop, Maintain, and Implement Reasonable Safeguards to Protect New...

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The new data security requirements provision of New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act went into full force as of March 21, 2020, and all people and businesses, regardless of the state in...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Guidance from E.U. Supervisory Authorities on Data Processing in a Time of COVID-19

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and a number of European data protection supervisory authorities have recently issued guidance on processing personal data, including special categories of personal data (i.e., health...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Vermont Governor Signs Bill Requiring Data Privacy Inventory of Citizens’ PII

On March 5, 2020, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed into law Senate Bill 110, “An act relating to data privacy and consumer protection,” which provides authority to develop a statewide data privacy inventory of the...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Policy Management: Choosing the Right Data Privacy Software, Part 1

What features should a legal or compliance team or technology buyer look for in the various solutions that should be elements of an effective data privacy and information governance initiative?...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

CCPA Reality Check: 10 Key Questions to Evaluate Compliance

With the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) in effect as of January 1, but regulations still being revised and finalized, businesses are struggling to know what they need to do now to comply....more

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