Throughout September, companies, regulators and policymakers have continued to respond to the fallout from Schrems II.  Since our last update we have also seen the second largest fine to date under the GDPR, the start of a major class action against YouTube, as well as a raft of new policy developments covering topics ranging from artificial intelligence to antitrust in…

The business-to-business (“B2B”) and human resources (“HR”) exemptions to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) have been extended for a full year, and will now expire no sooner than January 1, 2022 – and a further one-year extension seems likely. The B2B and HR exemptions have thus far permitted businesses to omit these types of data from their CCPA compliance…

We have recently written about the persistence of the three most common cyber attacks: Ransomware, Phishing and Business Email Compromises (BECs), and the increased regulatory scrutiny that companies face when they fall victim to these attacks. Two recent developments demonstrate that credential stuffing is yet another serious cybersecurity risk that is on the rise and has the attention of regulators. First,…

As businesses and government offices ramp up their on-site operations, they are turning to smartphone applications to help keep track of the health status of persons entering their buildings. In this Part 1 of our two-part blog post on back-to-work apps, we provide a checklist of issues to consider for health questionnaires.  In Part 2, we will do the same…

Reproduced with permission. Published Sept. 10, 2020. Copyright 2020 The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. 800-372-1033. For further use, please visit http://www.bna.com/copyright-permission-request/ There’s been dramatic growth in the role lawyers play in cybersecurity. When we started practicing in the area of artificial intelligence, we heard many of the same questions that we faced about cybersecurity years ago: What do the…