Rapidly-shifting regulatory requirements affecting data privacy often leave businesses struggling not only to keep up with immediate compliance needs, but also wondering how they can “future proof” their businesses to account for increasingly robust laws. And as the technology around
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Data Privacy Day Reflections – Compliance, Governance, Ethics (and AI)
January 28 is Data Privacy Day, and on this 14th annual Data Privacy Day, I find myself reflecting on the question of data ethics.
Far from being an academic concept, “data ethics” presents a model for data management with real…
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Cybersecurity 2021 – The Year in Preview: The FTC’s Enforcement Priorities
Editors’ Note: This is the fourth in our fifth-annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity in the coming year. Read our previous posts on Energy, Cannabis, and the GDPR.
As the Trump Administration ends, it…
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Fifth Circuit Addresses Scope of “Use” Under Federal Identity Theft Statute
By Colin Zick
You may have forgotten that there is a federal criminal identity theft statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A, which says:
Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated in subsection (c), knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority,…
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Cybersecurity 2021 – The Year in Preview: The GDPR’s New Transfer Landmines
Editors’ Note: This is the third in our fifth-annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity in the coming year. Read our previous post on Energy and Cannabis.
A year ago, transferring data from Europe to…
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Cybersecurity 2021 – The Year in Preview: Emerging Issues in Cannabis and Privacy
Editors’ Note: This is the second in our fifth-annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity in the coming year. Read our previous post on Energy.
Though the final results of the 2020 presidential race took…
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First Circuit Creates Exception to Massachusetts Wiretap Statute Based on First Amendment Rights, Allows Citizens and Press to Record Police Activity Without Permission
By Colin Zick
The First Circuit’s recent opinion in Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rollins, upheld a challenge to the Massachusetts anti-wiretap law, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 99, carving out an exception for certain activity protected by the First …
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The SolarWinds Orion Hack: The Basics You Need to Know
By Colin Zick
By now, you have heard about the SolarWinds Orion hack. But what do you need to know about it?
First, if you want or need the technical details, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has them. In…
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Supreme Court Considers Modern Applicability of TCPA’s Robocall Ban in Duguid v. Facebook
By Yoni Bard
On December 8, 2020, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Duguid v. Facebook, a landmark case that will determine whether a consumer can sue a company for using automated technology to text or call that consumer at a…
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Cybersecurity 2021 – The Year in Preview: Ransomware, the Latest Threat to the Nation’s Energy Supply
Editors’ Note: This is the first in our fifth-annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity in the coming year.
The Growing Threat of Ransomware
According to media reports, ransomware attacks against the manufacturing industry have more…
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