Generally, biometric privacy laws seek to protect the unique attributes of human beings that could be leveraged to access sensitive information about them, such as fingerprints and the measurements utilized for facial recognition technologies. Illinois has emerged as a… Read more
January 1, 2023, is now a more ominous deadline in the data privacy compliance world. Privacy professionals have been watching California’s 2022 legislative session to see whether California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) exemptions for employee data and business-to-business communications would… Read more
In an opinion released on March 10, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta addressed the applicability of the “right to know” under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) (pdf) to internal inferences that organizations develop about individuals. The opinion clarified… Read more
This month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new cybersecurity disclosure rules for publicly traded companies. The comment period is ongoing, but the take-away for public companies is immediate: a public company (no matter how large or small) needs… Read more
President Joe Biden recently signed into law the Cyber Incident Reporting For Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022. This new law updates the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA). The act adds responsibilities for federal agencies and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure… Read more
The federal banking agencies recently issued a final regulation that will require a bank to notify its primary federal regulator of a cyberattack, or computer-security incident, no later than 36 hours after the bank determines a “notification incident” occurred. The… Read more
Supreme Court of Virginia Declines Certified Questions from Federal Court in In re: Capital One Consumer Data Security Breach Litigation The lawsuit In re: Capital One Consumer Data Security Breach Litigation, has already spawned new precedence related to engaging forensic… Read more
Recently, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced the Department of Justice’s new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative, aimed at combatting “new and emerging cyber threats to the security of sensitive information and critical systems.” The Initiative will be led by the… Read more
On November 4, 2021, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by releasing the latest and highly anticipated iteration of the CMMC program — CMMC 2.0. According to the DoD, the streamlined version of CMMC… Read more
In our recent article on the legal framework governing virtual currencies, we briefly discussed the distinction between money transmitters and virtual currency exchanges. In short, transmitters are entities that convert fiat currency into virtual currency, whereas exchanges are entities that… Read more
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