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Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds common law duty for employers extends to protecting sensitive employee information

Data Protection Report

UPMC was filed by a group of employees of the University of Pittsburg Medical Center (“UPMC”), alleging a failure in data security resulted in a data breach and the theft of the personal and financial information of UPMC’s 62,000 employees.

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Saudi Arabia’s New Data Protection Law – What you need to know

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Middle East’s data protection regulatory landscape is complex, and continues to develop with Saudi Arabia’s ( KSA ) newly published Personal Data Protection Law ( PDPL ). While the PDPL contains the main features of a modern data protection law, it cannot be considered a direct analogue of the GDPR.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

To pick just two recent examples of the latter, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation1 (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act2 (CCPA) both impose sweeping requirements on businesses with the aim of increasing consumers’ privacy and control over how their personal data is used. For example, in John B.

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