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3 Challenges CISOs Face in 2024 as Cyberthreats Explode

From lacking an equal seat at the executive table to harboring the brunt of an organization's security failures, chief information security officers (CISOs) face a number of hurdles. .
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Attorney Launches New Firm With Former Client Who Faced High-Profile Revenge Porn Attack

In addition to handling tech abuse matters, the new firm has a cybersecurity practice and takes cases involving prisoner's rights, consumer protection and elder abuse.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

AI-Based Cybersecurity Startup Plotting IPO Hires Zoom's Jeff True as Legal Chief

Jeff True, who was GC of the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks before joining Zoom in 2020, is returning to cybersecurity to serve as legal chief of one of its hottest startups.
3 minute read

International Edition

8 US Firms to Battle Out Didi Global Securities Class Action in US Court

Quinn Emanuel, Skadden, Wilson Sonsini, Sullivan & Cromwell, Gibson Dunn and O'Melveny are all representing parties in the lawsuit.
3 minute read

Law.com

Judge Clears Negligence Claim to Proceed in Data Breach Suit Against Cohen Cleary

"Article III standing is a rapidly developing area of the law in the context of data breach class actions. We are pleased that the court found, correctly, that plaintiff has Article III standing to support these claims," said plaintiff's counsel Laura Van Note, a shareholder at Cole & Van Note in Oakland, California.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

With AI Training, Data 'Anonymization' Runs Risk of Becoming a Fig Leaf

'Data Anonymization' is a favorite term for tech providers seeking to train their generative AI systems on user data. But data privacy professionals caution that it can be an ambiguous or inaccurate description.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Attorney of the Year Finalist John Yanchunis Fights For the 'Most Violated Human Right'

After watching tech evolve for the past 20 years, the Morgan & Morgan attorney has found himself on the edge of what he sees as harmful technology trends that put consumers' privacy at risk.
3 minute read

Law.com

'A Tremendous Financial Burden': Medical Providers File Class Action Lawsuits Against Change Healthcare Over Data Breach

"In the case of the plaintiff, she had to get money out of her retirement account to make payroll, purchase medications for patients and pay operating expenses because they were unable to get claims either pre-authorized, or if they were submitted, they weren't able to get them paid," Thomas A. Zimmerman, Jr., a Chicago-based attorney at the Zimmerman Law Offices told Law.com. "This is causing a tremendous financial burden on the healthcare providers."
5 minute read

Law.com

U.S. Regulators Lift the Curtain on Data Privacy Practices

The assessment and audit requirements of the new generation of state data protection laws will force U.S. companies to move beyond mere window dressing and instead require them to develop fulsome data protection programs.
18 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Federal Judge Preliminarily Approves $4M Data Breach Class Action Settlement

"The class reps acknowledge the risks of proceeding with their claims through the course of litigation, noting that complex data breach actions are an underdeveloped legal discipline," Wolson wrote.
3 minute read

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