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In recent months, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has emphasized cybersecurity as both an enforcement priority and corporate responsibility, demonstrating its continued focus on the need for issuers to have sufficient measures in place, including up-to-date compliance and incident response programs in order to maintain the integrity of the capital market system. The SEC recently issued a Report of Investigation pursuant to Section 21(a) of the Securities Exchange Act (the “Report”) that advised…
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An attempt to bring legal action against Google for its alleged tracking of an estimated 4.4 million iPhone users in 2011 and 2012 has been blocked by the UK High Court (the court). Campaign group “Google You Owe Us” brought the claim as a representative action on behalf of the affected individuals (the class) in 2017. It is thought to be the UK’s first mass legal action of its kind. The case Google You Owe…
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The European Parliament has published a non-binding resolution on distributed ledger technologies and blockchains (blockchain technologies). What is distributed ledger technology? Best known as the technology behind bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, distributed ledger technology is, in its simplest form, a ledger of digital information maintained in decentralised form across a large network of computers. The information making up the ledger is secured using cryptography and can be accessed using keys and cryptographic signatures. Cyber-attacks are…
On 8 November, 2018, Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) issued its response to feedback received on a public consultation paper. In that consultation paper, the PDPC had proposed to: merge the Do Not Call provisions in the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 of Singapore (PDPA) and Spam Control Act into a single legislation to govern all unsolicited commercial messages; and assess requests for the PDPC to make determinations on complex or novel compliance…
Earlier this month, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published security guidance in its guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The guidance focuses specifically on encryption and passwords. It suggests points to be considered during implementation and offers some helpful “dos and don’ts”. Encryption Article 32 of the GDPR specifies encryption as an example of an appropriate technical and organisational measure. The guidance states four things that should be considered when implementing encryption: The…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft update to its premarket cybersecurity guidance for device makers on October 18, 2018. The expanded draft guidance includes recommendations on tiered classification of cybersecurity risk, trustworthiness, cybersecurity bill materials, and device cybersecurity labeling that are specific enough to be helpful to manufacturers while at the same time keeping the guidance sufficiently flexible to comply with an industry filled with advancing devices that pose greater and more…
On October 24, 2018, the Florida Court of Appeal for the Fourth District ruled that the state could not compel the production of a defendant’s iPhone passcode and iTunes password because doing so would violate the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination. The ruling in G.A.Q.L. v. State of Florida is encouraging for privacy advocates but may set up a showdown at the Florida Supreme Court, as it conflicts with a 2016 ruling from the Florida…
China’s new “Regulation on the Internet Security Supervision and Inspection by Public Security Organs” went into effect on November 1, 2018. It is the latest regulation passed by China’s Ministry of Public Security that executes China’s Cybersecurity Law, which took effect in June of last year. The regulation gives China’s Public Security Bureaus (PSBs) broad authority for how they conduct cybersecurity inspections of businesses providing or using internet services in China. PSBs broad authority is…
On 22 October 2018, the supermarket chain Morrisons lost its appeal to the High Court ruling that it is liable for a data breach that resulted in thousands of its employees’ personal data being posted online. The Court of Appeal’s (CoA) judgment can be found here. Over 5,000 Morrisons’ employees brought a class action in the High Court after a company employee, Andrew Skelton, stole personal data, which included payroll information of almost 100,000…
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced at the start of last month that it had fined Tesco Bank £16.4 million for a cyber-attack that occurred two years ago. In November 2016, 8,261 personal current accounts at Tesco Bank were compromised. Attackers obtained customers’ debit card details and entered into thousands of unauthorised transactions. This is the first cyber-attack-related fine to be imposed on a UK bank by the FCA. The fine was reduced from…