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Five Smart Steps to Prepare for GDPR Data Subject Rights

Sonia Cheng, Eckhard Herych & Richard MacDonald

Many corporations around the globe are preparing for May 2018, when Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement kicks in. The regulation encompasses a wide range of nuanced privacy requirements that can be challenging to operationalize. In particular, requirements around the rights of European data subjects — which include the right to be forgotten and rights to access, rectification and objection to processing — will be some of the most difficult to address.

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What Lies Beneath the Surface: The Dark Web

Elizabeth Vandesteeg & Jeffrey Goldberg

Nearly all of us access the World Wide Web on at least a daily basis. Yet for many of us, there is a fundamental lack of knowledge about the basic structure of the Internet and the way its different levels interact. This article provides a basic outline of the structure of the Web and some insight as to the purpose for and content housed on each level, as well as give some practical tips to avoid your company's data from ending up on the Dark Web.

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Podcast: Phishing Image

Podcast: Phishing

Jason Thomas

Phishing is one of the more pervasive cyber attacks in the world, and while we've all received phishing emails, phishing attacks have become more sophisticated and come in different forms other than emails from Persian princes.

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What Lies Beneath the Surface: The Dark Web Image

What Lies Beneath the Surface: The Dark Web

Elizabeth Vandesteeg & Jeffrey Goldberg

This article provides a basic outline of the structure of the Web and some insight as to the purpose for and content housed on each level, as well as give some practical tips to avoid your company's data from ending up on the Dark Web.

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SCOTUS Takes Up Microsoft Case on Email Privacy

Tony Mauro

A long-running dispute between Microsoft and the Justice Department over providing the government with certain customer emails in criminal investigations will be refereed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Fantasy Sports Dispute Results in New Views On Exceptions to Rights of Publicity Image

Fantasy Sports Dispute Results in New Views On Exceptions to Rights of Publicity

Stan Soocher

The big news in the fantasy sports arena this past summer was the announcement that competitors FanDuel and DraftKings, which make up more than 90% of the online market, would end their merger bid following the Federal Trade Commission's filing of an antitrust lawsuit against the companies. Now, there's good news for FanDuel and DraftKings on a different front, involving the use of athletes' personality components.

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Social Media: Questions of Admissibility and Ethics

Khizar A. Sheikh, Lynne Strober & Jennifer Presti

<b><i>Part One of a Two-Part Article</i></b><p>This two-part article is divided into three sections: 1) Social media, defined; 2) Examples of how social media has been used in family law cases; and 3) Ethical considerations for attorneys who gather social media evidence.

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The Privacy Shield Scheme: Should Your Company Join? Image

The Privacy Shield Scheme: Should Your Company Join?

Jonathan Armstrong & André Bywater

The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the EU-US Privacy Shield for business. This is vital in order to enable businesses to make an informed decision on whether or not to join this scheme.

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New Sources of Discoverable Evidence

Michael Ciaramitaro

<b><i>Part Two of a Two-Part Article</i></b><p>Last month, the author discussed some of the technologies people are using today, such as fitness trackers and intelligent personal assistants, and the e-discovery implications they entail. Like these, automotive "Black Boxes" and drones could yield important information for those seeking evidence in a legal action.

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Data Security and Data Breach Response Continue to Be a Hot Issue

Kevin Coy

<b><i>Lessons from 2017 Enforcement Actions and Guidance</b></i><p>Regulators including the FTC, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) — the agency responsible for enforcing the HIPAA rules for protected health information (PHI) — and state attorneys general have issued guidance and announced a number of settlements in data security cases that are instructive about measures that organizations can take to reduce the potential for a data breach or, if a breach does occur, provide appropriate notice.

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