Electronic Data Security

Keep your passwords close…and complex, and encrypted and unique, and ever-changing.

In the wake of recent data breaches involving passwords, the French data protection authority, the CNIL, has published guidelines
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The French data protection authority (CNIL) is placing Facebook’s EU-U.S. data transfer practices under new scrutiny over its use of the defunct Safe Harbor framework.

The agency issued a two-part
Continue Reading Facebook Runs Afoul of French Data Protection Authority

Businesses that relied previously on the EU’s Safe Harbor exception to transfer data from Israel to the United States have had that authorization revoked by the Israeli Law, Information and
Continue Reading EU Safe Harbor Invalidation Leads Israel to Rescind U.S. Data Transfer Authorization

On July 20, 2015, in Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Group, LLC, No. 14-3122 (7th Cir. 2015), the Seventh Circuit held that the United States District Court for the Northern
Continue Reading The Seventh Circuit Sides with Plaintiffs in Data Breach Litigation

Officials from both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and European Union (EU) recently called for enhancements to the Obama administration’s proposed Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.

The White House’s
Continue Reading FTC and EU Are Critical of the White House’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights