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Cybersecurity and Legal Tech In 2022: Predictions from the Field
It's still a dangerous cyber world as we enter 2022, but one that today's attorneys and legal technologists are prepared to tackle. Here's what they predict for cybersecurity, remote work, privacy and e-discovery in the new year.
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Cybersecurity and Corporate Privacy Enforcement Is Focus of Feds
It started as a hushed rumor in the beltway, then became a known fact by those going to join the administration. And now we all know: The Biden administration has brought with it a renewed focus on data privacy and cybersecurity.
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What You Need to Know About China's New Privacy Law
The Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (PIPL) went into effect on Nov. 1 and brought with it a suite of new requirements and lingering questions.
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9th Circuit: Police Violated Google Users' Privacy Rights After Automated Email Scan Detected Child Pornography
A federal appeals court found that law enforcement violated a Google user's constitutional rights when it opened email attachments the platform flagged as child pornography through an automated system.
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How to Address Evolving Privacy Regulations During Discovery
One Recipe for Success: Treat Private Data With the Same Priority Given to Privilege But for all the coverage that privacy regulations are meant to provide, there is precious little guidance about how to protect private information, and there is very little legal precedent to guide our practices.
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Preserving Snaps: Understanding Retention Features of Messaging Apps
The recent Doe v. Purdue University case out of the Northern District of Indiana — in which the court sanctioned plaintiff for failing to preserve relevant images and videos from his Snapchat application — teaches that counsel must understand the retention and deletion features of Snapchat and other messaging apps and social media if they are to help their clients preserve relevant ESI.
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The Pandemic Job Market: From Drought to Pandemonium
This article gives historical context to the events that brought us to the current climate and provides guidance on how employers and employees can successfully navigate the ensuing complexities of job searching and hiring in the post-pandemic pandemonium. Part One of a Two-Part Article
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NY Privacy Act Stalls, Would Escalate Protections Above Other State & International Regulations
The failure of NYPA to pass is not exceptionally noteworthy. What is noteworthy, however, is that it marks an escalation of data privacy protections and restrictions not seen in other major regulatory regimes, whether in the United States or abroad. And since most believe its failure to pass was due more to the end-of-session rush than its contents, don't be surprised if it pops up again in January 2022.
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Where Is the Consumer In Consumer Privacy Legislation?
In the past four months of 2021, the amount of state legislative activity around consumer data privacy laws has been frantic, by state legislatures standards. So much so, it is not easy to discern the cause for all this effort.
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Mastery of Information: How to Successfully Manage Ungoverned Data for Risk Mitigation
Companies are collecting and managing more data than ever, essentially in order to create value, thus in effect making every company a "data" company. But for data to provide value, organizations need to know where it is, who has access to it, how it's managed, including its longevity value, and how it needs to be secured and protected.
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