JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2021

India’s Joint Parliamentary Committee Thursday published its report on the 2019 Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill in both houses of Parliament. The report recommends changing the scope of the bill to include non-personal data, after noting that it is impossible to clearly demarcate between personal and non-personal data.

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2022

The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPC) Tuesday fined Meta Platforms Ireland Limited €17m for a series of data breaches affecting up to 30 million Facebook users that were disclosed to the Irish DPC by the social media company in 2018.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Specifically, the 33 states argue that Meta has collected the data of young users of their platforms, without parents’ permission. Meta has previously faced legal challenges due to its data privacy practices. ” The 33 states seek an injunction to curb Meta’s alleged exploitation of young users. .”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Thursday approved a $9 million settlement agreement with Uber for the company’s failure to report data on sexual harassment and assault. Uber filed the report but refused to provide data on grounds that it would be a “shocking violation of privacy.”

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The FTC voted 4-0 in favor of referring its complaint and stipulated final order to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for filing. The FTC is serving notice that it will use all of its legal authority to protect American consumers’ sensitive data from misuse and illegal exploitation.

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LawTechnologyToday

JUNE 17, 2021

Virginia is the latest state to make traction on signing comprehensive data privacy legislation into law, following close on the heels of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Right Act (CPRA). Notable exceptions—i.e.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The UK Supreme Court unanimously rejected Wednesday a legal action against Google, which alleged that the tech giant had secretly tracked millions of iPhone users and used their data for commercial purposes without consent. In 2018, the high court ruled in favor of Google and dismissed the case from proceeding.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Data Protection and Digital Trade Compliance: cross-border privacy protections, data security laws, crypto asset regulatory frameworks, governance of AI and digital trade, etc. For panel proposals, please submit a title and max 800-word abstract, along with a three-page CV covering 3-4 panel members.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Organization of American States (OAS) is hosting a webinar entitled u pdated principles on privacy and the protection of personal data of the Inter-American Juridical Committee today at 10 am (DC time), 4 pm CEST time – in Spanish. More information is available here.

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InHouseBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Trends that were percolating for years slammed into overdrive as Covid forced businesses to rapidly shift to remote workplaces and companies gathered more data than ever on their customers, while meanwhile trying to comply with a patchwork quilt of data protection regulations. Trend #2: The Increase of Data Privacy Litigation.

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ALPS

JULY 12, 2022

The 4 Key Components of an Effective Cybersecurity Plan. There are four key strategic factors you need to assess as the foundation of your organization’s cybersecurity plan: #1: Know what you’re trying to protect. Until you know what assets you’re trying to protect, you can’t properly protect them. Systems and assets.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 12, 2023

In addition to my work at Sidley Austin, I serve on the board of Cal State East Bay’s executive Big Data Program, where I contribute my knowledge and experience to help shape the future of data science education. 4.     Who do you think will be hurt by AI? I am also an active member of the department’s AI task force.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Toronto (October 4, 2021) – Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) welcomes Eric Charleston to the firm as partner in the Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection group.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

It is now well known that internet users are widely tracked and profiled by a range of actors and the advancements in data science mean that such tracking and profiling is increasingly commercially profitable [2]. This raises difficult questions about how to balance the value of data with individual privacy.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 30, 2021

Companies have an obligation to abide by the laws regarding the use of their employees’ data for their operations, and GPS tracking data is not an exception. The widespread use of GPS urged governments all over the world to introduce laws that will prevent the misuse of personal data at the hands of the wrong people.

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JURIST

AUGUST 29, 2021

Tech companies have challenged the constitutionality of Rule 4(2) and related provisions requiring social media intermediaries to identify the first originator of information shared on their platforms upon request by government authorities. However, these intermediaries have been reluctant owing to privacy concerns of their users.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Notably, the post that captured the most eyes was about New York becoming the first state to mandate CLE in cybersecurity, privacy and data protection. New York Becomes First State to Mandate CLE in Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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Fordham Law News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Data is often referred to as the “new oil”. [1] 1] However, data is unlike oil and other commodities of the past because data is intangible, infinite, not openly traded on the market, and lacks value in its unprocessed form. [2] Data is often referred to as the “new oil”. [1] Big Data Takedown: United States v.

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InHouseOps

MARCH 18, 2021

Change and challenge were the watchwords of 2020, but one area that has not received the attention it merits, according to Joel Schwarz, director for MBL Technologies and a cybersecurity, privacy and data protection expert, is the growth of third-party risk. Check out “4 Best Practices for Third-Party Threats” at ACC Docket.

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ALPS

MARCH 8, 2022

Privacy regulations are increasing. From the ground-breaking European GDPR regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), privacy legislation is becoming an increasing concern. In 2021 Virginia and Colorado passed privacy legislation, and more than 25% of US states have privacy legislation under consideration.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 6, 2022

On 23 June 2022, the Lisbon Guidelines on Privacy , drawn up by the ILA Committee on the Protection of Privacy in Private International and Procedural Law , were formally endorsed by the International Law Association at the 80th ILA Biennial Conference, hosted in Lisbon (Portugal). Burkhard Hess chaired the Committee, and Prof.

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LawTechnologyToday

MAY 19, 2021

25% of the participants are willing to move 10% of their employees, while 4% of the participants are planning to move 50% of their employees for remote working. When employees are working at the office, a lot of cybersecurity is set up to prevent data breaches.

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LawTechnologyToday

JUNE 1, 2021

Since the launch of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, corporate legal teams that are governed by the regulation have experienced a mixed bag of results in attempting to comply. Earlier this year, online retailer Hanna Andersson suffered a data breach via its third-party e-commerce partner Salesforce.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 17, 2022

A successful cyber attack can expose the contents of your computer systems — things like confidential client data, work product, financial records, account passwords, and everything else you have a consequential professional and legal obligation to safeguard. Computer kidnapping 4. So what are the biggest law firm cyber risks?

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 31, 2023

1] But beneath these headlines, there’s a battle being fought for the future of financial privacy. 3] At the heart of this battle lies the idea of encryption as a tool for maintaining privacy—“the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.” [4] 13] However, they also provide additional privacy features in various ways.

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 28, 2021

Two of the world’s largest companies, Apple and Facebook, are in the midst of a vicious, public “war” over Apple’s new privacy feature, Apple Tracking Transparency (“ATT”), featured in iOS 14. 5] Thus, by default, Apple users have “opted out” of tracking, and not until they ‘opt in’ are these applications allowed to track their data. [6]

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MyCase

AUGUST 8, 2022

Law firms can more easily scale their software usage as their teams and data usage change, compared to old-school enterprise software. . A SaaS lawyer generally helps their technology client protect intellectual property, develop and maintain partnerships, and ensure compliance with various regulations. . Data privacy and protection .

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MyCase

AUGUST 8, 2022

Law firms can more easily scale their software usage as their teams and data usage change, compared to old-school enterprise software. . A SaaS lawyer generally helps their technology client protect intellectual property, develop and maintain partnerships, and ensure compliance with various regulations. . Data privacy and protection .

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 28, 2021

There are, after all, respective obligations associated with these two kinds of roles that require companies to publish their business license online, obtain various other permits or certificates, maintain good data and privacy protection practice, and observes a ban on spamming. Tightened privacy protection.

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LawTechnologyToday

JULY 1, 2021

Pay attention to GDPR and privacy regulations. During the project planning process, review teams must give careful consideration to the role of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations), U.S. data privacy regulations, and similar jurisdiction-specific privacy laws as they manage and produce information for second requests.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 3, 2023

.” A month after the leak, Congress passed the Supreme Court Police Parity Act of 2022, which grants the Marshal of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Police the authority to protect any member of the justice’s immediate family, if necessary. . District Judge in New Jersey. Court Workload. Courts of Appeals, U.S.

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Rocket Matter

JANUARY 17, 2023

Still, getting side tracked by miscommunications, incorrect data entry, and other issues is inevitable when you’re clicking through multiple tabs to manage one case. . Fewer data entry errors . When your solutions talk to each other, there’s no need to manually input case-related data. . Leverage your data better.

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Was data under-collected—perhaps because IT applied basic keywords, date ranges, and file types and thus missed potentially important information obfuscated by code words? Were custodians and entire data sources missed altogether? Proactively secure and protect data—while preserving data and collecting from endpoints.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

” Given this failure, the appellate court affirmed the dismissal based on the settlement agreement’s protections was warranted. The district court found that the website had been designed and was hosted abroad, but included data protection and privacy provisions tailored specifically for U.S.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For its LLMs, TR is using a combination of Microsoft Azure OpenAI and a direct commercial API to OpenAI’s GPT-4. Importantly, TR says no user data is being directly shared outside the TR environment. Answers contain footnotes to sources relied on. Hover over one to see the context.

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MyCase

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Typically, this software uses pre-existing data to auto-populate a new document. Drafting documents from scratch with manual data entry leaves room for mistakes. Data protection : Security is essential. The best data protection comes from solutions that offer an audit trail and encryption. . Fewer Errors.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 31, 2023

And, more recent data presented by Axios shows that 50% of job applications submitted through LinkedIn are for remote work , though just 15% of job postings on the site offer that flexibility. ABA Tech Report data showed that 63% of respondents reported that they had law practice management/case management platforms available to them.

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