On November 4, 2020, Vincent Pitaro of the Cybersecurity Law Report published: Comparing U.S. and E.U. Approaches to Incident Response and Breach Notification. The article summarises a panel discussion at the European Incident Response Forum 2020 which featured Robert Maddox from Debevoise & Plimpton’s London office. The panel compared the U.S. and E.U. approaches to incident response across a variety…

October was a particularly busy month, with headline-grabbing stories such as the long-awaited finalisation of the fines against British Airways and Marriott, which may well be the last penalties the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) issues as a GDPR Lead Supervisory Authority.  Having already covered both fines (here and here), and the French CNIL’s latest cookies guidance, below is…

California voters have approved the new California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The margin was 56% – 44% – comfortable, if significantly tighter than pre-election polling that showed CPRA winning in a landslide. That comes on the heels of the California Attorney General’s release of still more proposed amendments to the regulations for the existing California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). Below…

Hot on the heels of British Airways’ £20m fine (covered here), the UK Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Marriott £18.4m for alleged data security failings linked to the breach of 339 million guest records.  Like the British Airways fine, the penalty is a significant climb-down from the amount originally proposed (£99m) in July 2019.  The penalty notice provides helpful insights…

Earlier this month, the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill was read for the first time in Singapore’s Parliament. As we reported previously, in May 2020, Singapore’s Ministry of Communications and Information (“MCI”) and Personal Data Protection Commission (“PDPC”) launched an online public consultation on a draft bill which proposed long-awaited amendments to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (the “PDPA”),…