On October 22, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed settled enforcement orders involving four current and former public companies – Unisys Corp., Avaya Holdings Corp., Check Point Software Ltd, and Mimecast Limited. The settlements concern the issuers’ disclosures
On October 2, 2024, the New York State Department of Health (“NYSDOH”) finalized and adopted new hospital cybersecurity regulations. Effective immediately, hospitals in New York State are required to report to NYSDOH as promptly as possible, but not later than
Rohan Massey and Edward Machin, partner and counsel in Ropes & Gray’s data, privacy & cybersecurity practice will be hosting a webinar on The EU AI Act – The Road to Compliance. The EU AI Act entered into force on
Ropes & Gray data, privacy & cybersecurity associate Matthew Cin spoke with Law360, about Illinois’s recent amendments to its Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Ever since it was enacted in 2008, BIPA, which can restrict companies from collecting
On Friday, August 2, Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois signed into law SB2979, an amendment to the state’s landmark biometric privacy law. The amendment offers a welcome step forward to correcting the rapid overexpansion of potential damages associated with
On July 9, 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (“OSTP”) issued highly anticipated final guidelines setting forth a framework under which academic research institutions must establish and operate formal research security programs (the “Final Guidelines”).1 These final
Last Friday arrived with the crash of millions of Windows computers used by companies across the globe, including critical infrastructure sectors such as hospitals, banks, airlines, and government agencies. Despite quick retraction of the cause, cascading effects continued throughout the
On April 4, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) adopted new rules updating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (“TCPA”) requirements regarding a consumer’s ability to revoke consent to receive calls and messages (collectively “messages”). Generally speaking, the TCPA in part
With the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (the “Act”), Rhode Island is the latest state to pass a comprehensive privacy law and join the evolving U.S. privacy landscape. The Act will take effect on January 1, 2026,
On 12 July 2024, the EU AI Act (“AI Act”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. As the AI Act will enter into force 20 days from the date of its publication (1 August 2024), this