SCOTUS Remands Google Case to the Ninth Circuit for Spokeo Standing AnalysisThe United States Supreme Court on March 20, 2019 remanded an $8.5 million settlement in a class action against Google to the Ninth Circuit so that the lower court could evaluate standing under the Supreme Court’s 2016 Spokeo v. Robins decision. In the case, Frank v. Gaos, plaintiffs challenged
Destination Unknown: The Perilous Future of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Technologies Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018This article originally appeared in the UCLA Law Review.
On August 22, 2018, the California Attorney General Xavier Becerra wrote a letter to both the California State Senate and Assembly.1 The letter stated that A.B. 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (hereinafter Act) imposed “unworkable
HIPAA Small Breach Notifications Due March 1March 1, 2019 is the date by which HIPAA covered entities must notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of “small” breaches of unsecured protected health information that were discovered in calendar-year 2018. A small breach involves fewer than 500 individuals.
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Leveraging Your GDPR Compliance Investment for CCPAYou diligently spent time analyzing your General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance requirements, built your roadmap, and executed it. You now learn that a new law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), will go into effect in less than a year—and there are similar state privacy
Recent Developments in Cybersecurity….What You Don’t Know Will Hurt YouCriminal masterminds are constantly re-envisioning their weapon of choice. International cyberattacks perpetuated through the use of leaked nation-state cyber tools, shaped many security discussions in 2018, but a new year consistently brings forth new challenges and lessons to learn. With the recent implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection
Exempt or Not Exempt? California Consumer Privacy Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley ActFor the last 18 years, most financial services businesses could sum up their privacy practices with just four letters: G-L-B-A, also known as Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Public Law 106-102, and its implementing regulations (“GLBA”). With the compliance date for California’s sweeping new privacy law quickly approaching,
Building an Effective Privacy Program, Plus a Privacy Officer RoundtableJoin the Health Care Compliance Association, April 7-10, in Boston for the single most comprehensive healthcare compliance conference. The program is designed for compliance professionals from a variety of healthcare backgrounds, including compliance officers, billing and coding professionals, auditors, nurses, risk managers, ethics officers, privacy officers, health information professionals. Healthcare
Checking out of Hotel California: The California Consumer Privacy Act, and Looming Federal LegislationChris Ott will be presenting “Checking out of Hotel California: The California Consumer Privacy Act, and Looming Federal Legislation” at the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) LIVE 2019, April 1-3, 2019 at the Gaylord National in Washington, D.C. This conference marks the 10th year of retail banking’s premier event, and celebrates
Webinar ǀ Business Challenges Over Rights to Erasure & Threats to AIWebinar ǀ Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 2:00 EST
Developments in Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have brought about unprecedented insight and value to the modern enterprise. At the same time, the right to be forgotten is ensconced in the current and upcoming privacy regulations such as the
February Privacy Oracle: Proposed Amendments to the CCPA, Array of State Privacy Proposals, Upcoming Federal Hearings & Other Policy DevelopmentsUp against a deadline for the introduction of legislation in the 2019 California state legislative session, numerous pieces of legislation were proposed last week to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including a draft bill supported by the state attorney general that would allow consumers to bring private lawsuits
