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Complying With the Toughest Data Privacy Law in the United States

California's new privacy regulation possesses the potential to cause a seismic shift in the landscape of data privacy law not just in California, but across the country.
8 minute read

Law.com

What's Next: Thinking About Privacy Post-Carpenter + Getting Ahead of Drone Law

We caught up with USC law professor Orin Kerr to talk about the pressures that digital technology places on the Fourth Amendment and where things go next.
12 minute read

Legaltech News

Nervous System: Big Brother, the Ghost in LBJ's Computer

This isn't the first time the debate over technological advancements versus fundamental privacy rights has reached Congress. In this month's look at the history of cybersecurity, David Kalat looks back to the National Data Bank of the 1960's.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

From GDPR to Golden State Killer, DNA Sharing Presents Privacy Challenges

Collaborations between popular consumer genetic testing companies like 23andMe and pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline to develop new drugs raise data privacy concerns for in-house lawyers, who must navigate this murky compliance landscape largely through privacy policies.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Social Media Demands Must Be Tailored and Reasonable

In his State E-Discovery column, Mark Berman discusses how courts have become more sophisticated in how they address social media discovery demands, including “critically examining the breadth of the demand in order to permit disclosure of information that is material and necessary to the issues in dispute.”
8 minute read

Legaltech News

Dazed and Confused: Gray Areas in the Golden State's New Privacy Law

Firms are helping clients prepare for the enactment of the California Consumer Protection on January 1, 2020. But it's difficult to hit the ground running with some vagaries surrounding the law still in place.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Beyond Data: Function Is the New Cyber Attack Surface

The profound changes deriving from IT/OT convergence require us to take a fresh look at legal and regulatory norms that have stood for decades since the Industrial Era. We are in a radical new environment where exponential benefits and risks are now reality.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

The 50-State Cybersecurity Class Action Is Here to Stay. How to Defend Against It!

In recent years, plaintiff class actions lawyers have shifted their focus in cybersecurity cases from pleading federal claims to asserting claims under state law of residents of all 50 states. However, this potentially raises class certification issues that make these claims difficult for plaintiff to succeed on. How should one prosecute them? How should one defend them? How could one plead and prove that the plaintiffs were injured because of the breach?
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

New Guidelines on GDPR's Territorial Scope Confirm It Reaches Far Beyond the EU

The draft Guidelines seek to clarify questions raised since the passage of the GDPR over the GDPR's extra-territorial reach, and they confirm that the GDPR's intended reach is well beyond the geographic confines of the European Union.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Dazed and Confused: Gray Areas in the Golden State's New Privacy Law

Firms are helping clients prepare for the California Consumer Privacy Act, but with some vagaries still surrounding the law it will be difficult to hit the ground running.
8 minute read

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