Enforcement is increasing under the EU US Privacy Shield Framework for cross border transfer of personal data. A report published by European regulator, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), lists
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Fox Rothschild partner and firm Chief Privacy Officer Mark G. McCreary sees a trend: Law firms are increasingly recognizing that naming a lawyer to lead data security and privacy efforts
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Yesterday, a massive ransomware attack now known as “Petya” spread across the globe in a similar fashion to the WannaCry cyberattack in May. In an Alert today, Fox Chief Privacy
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With over 123,000 computers infected, experts believe the “WannaCrypt” attacks have stopped after researchers registered a domain that the software checks before encrypting. However, nothing is stopping someone from revising the software to not require that check and releasing it into the wild. In other words, do not expect the infections to stop.
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With tax season in full swing, a different season is impacting businesses across all industries: “phishing season.”
“Phishing” or
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On March 15, Fox Rothschild partner Scott Vernick will participate in a panel discussion on Developments in Data Privacy & Security as part of the 2017 Argyle Chief Legal Officer
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For the second time in just four months, Yahoo has announced a massive cyberattack. The first attack, which occurred in 2014, set a record with the breach of 500 million
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In what may be the largest data breach ever publicly disclosed, Yahoo, disclosed that a 2014 cyberattack breached at least 500 million user accounts. The company said it believes state-sponsored
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The “new age” of internet and dispersed private data is not so new anymore but that doesn’t mean the law has caught up. A few years ago, plaintiffs’ cases naming defendants like Google, Apple, and Facebook were at an all-time high but now, plaintiffs firms aren’t interested anymore. According to a report in The Recorder, a San Francisco based legal newspaper, privacy lawsuits against these three digital behemoths have dropped from upwards of thirty cases in the Northern District of California i 2012 to less than five in 2015.
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Fox Rothschild partner Scott L. Vernick was quoted in The New York Times article, “Hacking Victims Deserve Empathy, Not
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