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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Top 10 for 2018

Data Matters

In November 2017, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Carpenter v. These cases have been a central part of post-9/11 privacy law. Perhaps the most personal aspects of cyberspace will arise with the marked increase in the rise of wearables, digital pharmaceuticals, and advances in personal medicine. The Internet of Bodies.

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China’s First Data Protection Measures Lifting Its Veils

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

The Specification allows a product or service provider to suspend its service in the event data subjects refuse to consent to the processing of his or her personal data necessary to achieve core functions. Note that as required under Article 11 , the sending of targeted pushes cannot rely on implied or bundled consent by data subjects.