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Data Protection: Where’s the Brexit Privacy Dividend?

Data Protector

Removing the UK from the decision-making structures of the EU should also result in the UK Government feeling able to update other privacy legislation, such as the outdated Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations, without having to delay for years and years until EU countries managed to reach a political consensus on the way ahead.

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U.S. Supreme Court to Weigh in on Extraterritorial Search Warrant Dispute

Data Matters

government’s request for review of a lower court decision that rejected the government’s construction of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) and embraced a more restrictive view that Microsoft had advanced, backed by much of the tech industry and many privacy groups. officials, by using computers and personnel based in the United States.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

The Shamoon “wiper” virus , for instance, devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco, destroying the hard drives of more than 30,000 Aramaco computers and forcing a weeklong shutdown of the company’s internal network. A few months later the UAE stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.

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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. UPMC, 2018 Pa. LEXIS 6072199 (Pa.

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If You’re a Cloud Provider or Consumer, Consider These Guidelines on How to Conduct Yourself in Europe: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

The Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group realized it was critical for cloud providers to have guidance that would enable them to achieve compliance with EU personal data protection legislation,” said Francoise Gilbert, CSA Lead Outside Counsel and PLA Working Group co-chair.

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FRANCE: NEW GUIDELINES FOR COOKIES AND AN ACTION PLAN FOR ONLINE TARGETED ADVERTISING

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The new guidelines apply to all types of operations aiming to gain access through electronic transmission to information stored on the subscriber or user terminal or to store information in such terminal. ii) F rom soft opt-in to active consent. For more information, please contact Denise Lebeau-Marianna or Tiphaine Caulier.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Courts have frequently emphasized privacy concerns in these cases, where a party sought direct access to an opposing party’s computer systems under Rule 34(a)(1), which allows parties “to inspect, copy, test or sample. any designated tangible things.”36 For example, in John B.

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