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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 Image

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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Security First Approach Provides a Significant Advantage to Law Firms Image

Security First Approach Provides a Significant Advantage to Law Firms

Mark Sangster

The security industry all too often sells the next shiny object touted as the Holy Grail of security that protects against all cyber threats. And the following year, the next best thing hits the market and becomes the grail until proven fallible.

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Equifax Breach Will Fuel Identity Theft Remediation Debate Image

Equifax Breach Will Fuel Identity Theft Remediation Debate

Angela R. Matney

In the wake of suits filed against Equifax by consumers, businesses and governmental units, courts will have to grapple with the question of what remedies are appropriate. These issues are not unique to the Equifax incident, but the scope of the breach will undoubtedly lead to more debate than ever before.

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The Myth of the Secure Cloud

Nina Cunningham

“There's really no such thing as the cloud, there are only other people's computers.” This may have been true at first; but it is now worth some investigation if the present threat environment today demands a secure cloud.

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The Myth of the Secure Cloud Image

The Myth of the Secure Cloud

Nina Cunningham

"There's really no such thing as the cloud, there are only other people's computers." This may have been true at first; but it is now worth some investigation if the present threat environment today demands a secure cloud.

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The Equifax Breach: Why This One Is Different

F. Paul Greene

This is not the first time that a credit reporting agency has been breached, nor is it the first time that Equifax has reported a breach. What <i>is</i> different with the current breach is its size and the nature of information compromised, as well as the implications of the breach in light of the increasingly complex web of cybersecurity regulations nationwide.

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5 Things to Know About the First Wave of Equifax Actions

Amanda Bronstad

With 143 million people potentially hit by Equifax Inc.'s data breach, there's no doubt there will lawsuits — a lot of them."You'll have suits in…

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Big Data, Web 'Scraping' and Competition Law Image

Big Data, Web 'Scraping' and Competition Law

Shepard Goldfein & James Keyte

<b><i>The Debate Continues</i></b><p>Web "scraping" is one method of accumulating data that has sparked recent legal debate, both antitrust and otherwise. Legal challenges to Web scraping have involved privacy claims and claims under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in addition to antitrust claims about the need to collect public data to be able to compete freely.

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