In the six years since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) took effect, governments around the world have updated their data protection laws to reflect the seismic changes in data processing that were created with the introduction of the
Ropes & Gray Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity senior associate Matthew Cin spoke withLaw360 about an emerging split among Illinois state and federal courts over the question of whether recent amendments to Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) are retroactive.
While students are about to embark on their holiday break, there is no such luck for educational technology (“EdTech”) providers. Privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence compliance obligations have proliferated over the past year, with no signs of slowing down. While
Throughout 2024, financial sector regulators sharpened their focus on data protection and cybersecurity issues impacting financial institutions and the public. Key federal agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), and the Consumer Financial Protection
On 30 November 2022, OpenAI made its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence chatbot publicly available. In the two years since, its unprecedented growth has fostered a dramatic shift in public attention to and interest in all forms of AI. Now, the
Although 2024 saw several states enact comprehensive privacy legislation, another year is nearly gone, and we still do not have a comprehensive federal privacy law to resolve the rapidly evolving patchworks of state laws. Despite the lack of comprehensive privacy
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been a leading voice in cybersecurity standards since 2013, when President Obama’s Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity tasked NIST, which is embedded within the Department of Commerce, with developing
Data breaches made headlines throughout 2024, affecting governments, health care groups, and telecoms. Follow-on litigation has kept pace. Nearly 4,000 class actions involving data privacy issues are estimated to be filed in federal courts by the end
Over the next few weeks, Ropes & Gray’s data, privacy, and cybersecurity team will bring you unique blogs reviewing key trends and developments in data protection. This year, each daily blog will focus on a specific set of legal developments
On October 29, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) to implement President Biden’s Executive Order 14117, “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern.”