Data Security

Basic cyber hygiene prevents 98% percent of cyberattacks.

It was a major incident.

The law is moving towards potential liability, so don’t have your company (or client) delay implementing something soon concerning data security.

What does this ruling mean with respect to your company (or your client)?

There are always exciting things happening in U.S. and international privacy law, so the topic never gets boring.

Fixing an Android security problem is no easy task, according to technology columnist Sean Doherty.

Technology columnist Jeff Bennion talks to Justin Somaini of Box.com about what law firms need to know about storing documents in the cloud.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill (S.562) into law on January 9, 2015 that will impose a standard more stringent than HIPAA on health insurance carriers authorized (i.e., licensed) to issue health benefits plans in New Jersey.

On the one-year anniversary of Target’s announcement that it had suffered a massive data breach, Judge Magnuson in the District of Minnesota cleared the way for a consumer class action against the retailer to move forward into discovery. Earlier in December, the court ruled that the financial institution class actions can also proceed.

In December, 23 privacy authorities – many of which are members of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) – signed an open letter to the operators of seven app marketplaces, urging them to improve consumers’ access to privacy information on mobile apps.

Ed note: This post originally appeared on Reed Smith’s Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog. Unmanned aerial cameras have been legal in other parts of the world but prohibited for commercial use in the United States until last week, with the limited exception of two commercial-drone operations, which the FAA had previously approved for Alaskan oil […]