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Corporate Counsel

Microsoft's Top Privacy Lawyer Says CCPA Should Be Strengthened

Julie Brill, who serves as Microsoft's corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for global privacy and regulatory affairs, is calling for policymakers to place "more robust accountability requirements on companies."
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Legal Integration Playbook: Strategic and Practical Information Governance Considerations in M&A

This article provides a playbook for the five key areas general counsel must address from a legal risk mitigation perspective, in partnership with records management and IT teams, during a merger or divestment.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The CCPA Is Coming and So Are Data Breach Class Actions

Companies that do business in California can expect to see class action litigation if they become the victim of a data breach, but showing a good cybersecurity posture and implementing arbitration agreements may be the best defense.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Can Medical Data Remain Anonymous in the Age of Facial Recognition?

HIPAA privacy laws were designed to change with the times, but the organizations under their dominion may have a more difficult time adapting to new technologies that make it harder to de-identify medical data.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

In the Spirit of Thanksgiving: CCPA 2.0 With a Large Helping of Added Rights

The California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act of 2020 (CPREA), dubbed "CCPA 2.0," could be the most critical amendment expanding consumer rights.
7 minute read

Law.com

Will Big Tech's Antitrust Moment Swing Open Encryption Backdoors? + Facebook Faces Regulatory Disclosures + No 4th Amendment Protection for WiFi Moochers

Security policy experts disentangle encryption from the antitrust suspicion surrounding Silicon Valley.
9 minute read

The Recorder

California AG Joins the Fray Probing Facebook's Privacy Practices

A court petition for documents related to Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal marks Becerra's office's first public foray into the swirl of litigation against the company.
4 minute read

Law.com

The California Consumer Privacy Act: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask -- 100 Days Out, Part Two

Part Two of a Two-Part Article Part One of this article, last issue, covered how the CCPA applies to businesses — both in and outside California, the revenue threshold, proposed amendments and other open issues. Part Two continues with the rights that CCPA grants to Californians, the CCPA's impact on company privacy policies, how other states' privacy laws compare to the CCPA, exceptions and penalties for violating the Act.
13 minute read

The Recorder

The Intersection of the California Consumer Privacy Act and California's Preexisting Consumer Protection Statutes

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) contains an explicit prohibition, along with implicit safe harbors, likely to limit certain Unfair Competition Law and/or Consumer Legal Remedies Act claims related to the use or disclosure of information subject to the CCPA.
6 minute read

The Recorder

Facebook's Regulatory Discovery Could Be Fair Game in Proposed Privacy Class Action

In addition to repurposing regulatory production documents, a federal judge could ask the company to provide more information on how its millions of apps interact with users. Gibson Dunn's Orin Snyder rebutted that there were "not enough engineers on the globe" to perform the task.
4 minute read

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