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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

With the proliferation of social media platforms and other new technologies has come a renewed legal focus on privacy. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts? In this essay, Robert D.

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Update of Japan’s Privacy Law Approved by Cabinet

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

On Tuesday, March 10, the Japanese Cabinet approved a bill to revise the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (“APPI”), which would require companies to take certain additional measures to protect personal data of data subjects. The last update came into force in May 2017.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Consumer privacy rights in California are well established. The California Constitution expressly grants California citizens a right to privacy. The International Association of Privacy Professionals estimates at least 500,000 U.S. The CCPA governs how businesses treat “consumer” “personal information.” What Is Covered?

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Consumer privacy rights in California are well established. The California Constitution expressly grants California citizens a right to privacy. The International Association of Privacy Professionals estimates at least 500,000 U.S. The CCPA governs how businesses treat “consumer” “personal information.” What Is Covered?

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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

Attorney General described a recent takedown of a Russian government-sponsored botnet called Cyclops Blink before it was weaponized and caused damage. and foreign government agencies. government reported a significant rise in hacks perpetrated against private companies by nation-state-sponsored threat actors. Agency (Feb.

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When And How Cos. Should Address Cyber Legal Compliance

Data Matters

*This post originally appeared in Law 360 on October 24, 2017. They can, however, engage in probing internal due diligence of their companies’ cyber governance and compliance posture before it is too late — that is, before a cyber event occurs. We’ve seen it happen time and again. 1] The U.S.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. The commissioner also said: “Children have absolutely no idea that they are giving away the right to privacy or the ownership of their data or the material they post online”.

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