In The Legal's cybersecurity supplement, read about data privacy in the practice of law, GDPR one year later, some diversity pitfalls of using AI and how to survive the service provider data breach.

Law firms often operate as a repository of sensitive client information, from proprietary trade secrets to personal data such as social security numbers and medical information.

Two cases, one from the U.S. Supreme Court and one from the Illinois Supreme Court, have set the venue for the enforcement and interpretation of an Illinois privacy law squarely in the Illinois state courts, to the exclusion of the federal courts.

On May 25, 2018, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation took effect, sweeping aside a patchwork of laws governing data protection and breach notification in individual EU member states.

As clients integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their business, not only must attorneys advise on issues like data management, privacy and intellectual property, but attorneys should also counsel clients on potential discriminatory biases built into AI algorithms.

It's summer, and life's a breach. A data breach, that is. It's your service provider's breach, but it involves your (more likely, your customer's) data. So put down the beach reading for some breach advice.