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CLE Takeaways: Top 10 Privacy & Cybersecurity Must-Knows for 2025

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The legal landscapes for privacy and cybersecurity continue to evolve rapidly, presenting both challenges and opportunities for innovative companies. Indeed, 2024 was a busy year, with the enactment of a number of new federal...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

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Monetizing Sports Data and Protecting Athlete Privacy: Where is the Balance?

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The collection of personal data by organizations in the sports industry creates unique data privacy challenges. Generally, a business-to-consumer organization is focused on the personal data of its customers and separately...more

Lathrop GPM

2022 Legal Guide to Privacy and Data Security

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Facial recognition technology, drones the size of a butterfly, secure microchips replacing magnetic stripes on credit cards, sensors the size of a grain of sand swallowed by patients that transmit data directly to the...more

Miller Canfield

COVID-19: Data Privacy Compliance

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Managing the COVID-19 outbreak requires adopting measures that have never been seen before. Such measures, aimed at monitoring how the virus spreads, inevitably require processing "personal data," including health information...more

Sands Anderson PC

New York’s New Data Security Requirements

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In the fall of last year, we wrote about the passage of the SHIELD Act (the Act) in New York, which expanded aspects of the state’s breach notification requirements (Breach Requirements) and created a statutory obligation to...more

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HIPAA Privacy and Coronavirus

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With the recent spread of coronavirus (2019-nCoV), it is an important time to examine what information employers may share under HIPAA’s Privacy Rule during an outbreak of infectious disease or other emergency situation....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Privacy and Data Security: 2020 Considerations for the Insurance Industry

To stay ahead of the new privacy and data security requirements, such as CCPA and recent data security state laws, insurers need to take steps now to navigate the increasingly complex regulatory landscape. This article...more

Epstein Becker & Green

The New York State “Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act” (SHIELD Act) Becomes Effective March 21, 2020: Is Your...

Time is running out. The effective date of New York’s cybersecurity law mandating that organizations implement an information security program to protect “private information” of New York State residents, including employee...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2020 #4

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It’s getting difficult to keep up with the jargon of all of the new digital scams. The SaaSes in the beginning became regular business terms, such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Business Processes-as-aService (BPaaS)....more

Carlton Fields

Florida’s Legislature to Consider Consumer Data Privacy Bill Akin to California’s CCPA

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Florida lawmakers have proposed data privacy legislation that, if adopted, would impose significant new obligations on companies offering a website or online service to Florida residents, including allowing consumers to “opt...more

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Privacy and Data Security Alert | December 2019

SDNY Rejects Standing under “Increased Risk” Theory Where Data Not Targeted or Stolen - The Southern District of New York rejected a settlement that would have resolved a class action based on the unauthorized (and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #191 – Trying to Protect Your Medical Information—Let’s Ask Questions About Data Security

In the top three of the list of highly sensitive personal data to be concerned about is our medical information. It’s so sensitive because it is so personal. It used to be that our medical information was located in paper...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Potentially Expanded Private Right of Action Increases Risk of Class Action Exposure Under the California Consumer Privacy Act

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Looking Back - the California Consumer Privacy Act, and How We Got Here - As companies were getting up-to-speed on the effects of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last year, California quickly...more

Carlton Fields

Be Prepared For The Next Wave Of Biometric Data Laws: Five Tips For Businesses

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Advancements in technology have made it possible for more companies to use biometric data to streamline their business, improve security and workplace efficiency, and offer new services and features to customers. ...more

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U.S. hospitals will continue to grapple with GDPR compliance in 2019

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When the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective on May 25, 2018, many US-based hospitals struggled to determine whether they were subject to the GDPR and, if so, what they must do to...more

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What US-Based Companies Need to Know About the GDPR, and Why Now?

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If you are a US-based or multinational company, you may have noticed that in the past few months you have started to see a significant increase in the number of vendor (or other) agreements that you have been asked to modify...more

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Best practices for managing cybersecurity risks related to IoT-connected medical devices

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Connected medical devices deliver numerous benefits not available before, including improved monitoring of patient welfare and a wealth of vital data. But for all the advantages available through these devices, their...more

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Post-market medical devices, cybersecurity, and the U.S. FDA’s growing concerns

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From insulin pumps and pacemakers to defibrillators, medical devices increasingly rely on wireless and internet connectivity for efficient operations. Unfortunately, these interconnections also leave devices vulnerable to an...more

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Children's Products and the "Internet of Things": Data Privacy Beyond COPPA

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In this internet age, "smart" children’s products—those that collect, transmit or store electronic data—are on the rise. By some estimates, the smart toy market will reach $11.3 billion in sales by 2020. Manufacturers of...more

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