The eDiscovery and Information Governance Group has been ranked in Tier Three in the latest Legal 500 ranking. Richard (Rick) Lutkus was also recognized as a Rising Star in Media, Technology & Telecoms – Cyber Law. Rick Lutkus and Kathleen McConnell were also recognized by the editorial as recommended lawyers. Led by Scott Carlson (also ranked in the Legal 500) and Jay Carle, the group has been lauded by clients and peers for…

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Proposed Amendment to Expand CCPA Private Action Stalls

By Jason Priebe on May 24, 2019

Senate Bill 561, which would have generated even greater compliance challenges and litigation risk for businesses, has been held in committee and placed on suspense. This development effectively prevents the bill from advancing for a vote and is a bit of CCPA good news for businesses. It also serves as a minor setback to consumer privacy interest groups and plaintiff-oriented trial lawyers, who were banking on even more lucrative individual consumer violation claims after January…

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And Texas joins the Privacy Fray – Part 2 (or, Everything is Bigger in Texas…)

By John Tomaszewski & Edward "Ted" Murphree on May 13, 2019

Cross-Posted from The Global Privacy Watch Blog In Part 1 of our ‘Texas Joins the Privacy Fray’ series, we focused on the Texas Consumer Privacy Act. Here, we shine the light on the Texas Privacy Protection Act (HB 4390). The TXPPA is distinguishable from both the TXCPA and the CCPA because the applicability threasholds are different. For the TXPPA to apply, a business must 1) be doing business in Texas; 2) have more than…

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And Texas Joins the Privacy Fray – Part 1 (or, the Elephant in the room just got a LOT bigger…)

By John Tomaszewski & Edward "Ted" Murphree on May 9, 2019

Cross-Posted from The Global Privacy Watch Blog Last month, Texas saw the introduction of not one, but TWO privacy bills in the Texas state legislature: The Texas Consumer Privacy Act (TXCPA) and the Texas Privacy Protection Act (TXPPA). With news of this likely meeting with a collective groan and shoulder shrug, we do have some good news for you. Both bills’ foundations are set with familiar CA Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) language. Unfortunately, this is…

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The Broad Scope of 28 U.S.C. Section 1782

By Eddy Salcedo & Owen Wolfe on April 10, 2019

Picture your client telling you they were considering starting a litigation, but that they did not yet have all the facts needed for you to prepare a pleading. Now add the wrinkle that the action would need to be forumed in a foreign country, one with discovery rules narrower than those in the United States, and then the kicker, that some of the relevant documents are held by third parties outside of the planned litigation…

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Authenticating Digital Signatures at Trial

By Ryan Tilot & Lynn Kappelman on March 29, 2019

One benefit of living in the digital age is that we no longer need to travel to our attorney’s office to place a wet signature on an important contract or mortgage document. Parties now regularly execute multi-million dollar real estate transactions, non-competition agreements, and stock purchases, among other agreements, using digital signature applications. The most often used application, DocuSign, boasts that its solution enables you to electronically sign while meeting the requirements of the ESIGN…

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Recently Proposed Amendment to CCPA Could Change the Compliance and Risk Landscape in a Big Way

By Jason Priebe on March 8, 2019

Just when we thought we had an remote understanding on how the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) would work from an enforcement and penalty perspective, Senate Bill 561 was introduced on February 22. The bill has the full support of Attorney General Xavier Becerra and appears to be heading for a vote; the odds are favoring passage. It is not surprising that the Attorney General supports the proposed changes because they remove some of the…

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Top Five Most Common Cybersecurity Attacks and How to Prevent Them – Part 1: Email Spoofing and Wire Fraud

By Richard Lutkus, EnCE, EnCEP, CEH on February 21, 2019

Every day all over the world, companies fall victim to cybersecurity attacks. It’s nearly a constant these days. Many of these attacks are preventable with the right amount of attention to detail in system setup and hardening. The three common themes in postmortem examination of all of these attacks boil down to 1) human error; 2) configuration error; 3) failing to proactively defend. In this series of six posts, we will dive into each attack’s…

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The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: What Businesses Need to Know Now

By Jason Priebe & John Tomaszewski on February 12, 2019

California, home to more than 40 million people and the 5th largest economy in the world, has passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), its omnibus consumer privacy law. The law creates sweeping new requirements concerning the collection, maintenance, and tracking of information for both employees or customers who are residents of California. Many aspects of the implementation and enforcement are still being finalized by the California Attorney General. However, companies with employees or customers…

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Google First “Tech Giant” to be Fined for Violating GDPR

By Emily Dorner on January 24, 2019

This weekend, Google was fined 50 million euros (over $55 million) by France’s Data Privacy Authority, CNIL, for breaching Europe’s (fairly) new General Data Protection Regulation. GDPR lays the framework for the legal processing of personal data, requiring that companies have a lawful basis for processing a user’s personal information. This lawful basis can result from the user’s genuine consent prior to collecting personal information; processing necessary for the performance of a contract, compliance with…

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