Monthly Archives: December 2018

Editors’ Note:  This is the third in our third annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity during the coming year.  Our previous entries were on comparing the GDPR with COPPA and on energy and security.  Up next:  emerging threats.

Whether it was a Blue Wave or a “Big Victory,” the midterm elections unequivocally transformed state regulatory and enforcement landscapes by sweeping in four new Democratic Attorneys General and earning Democrats a majority of those key policymaking positions. … More

Editors’ Note:  This is the second in our third annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity during the coming year.  Our previous entry was on energy and security.  Up next:  trends in state data privacy enforcement.

Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018, one of the most common questions for practitioners is what the GDPR means for children. … More

Editors’ Note:  This is the first in our third annual end-of-year series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity during the coming year.  Up next:  comparing data protection regulations aimed at children under both COPPA and the GDPR.

While 2018 has been a year of unprecedented and escalating cyber-related threats generally, such has certainly been the case with respect to attacks on the nation’s domestic energy facilities.… More

The concept that one is known by the company one keeps dates back to ancient times (the particular phrase is attributed to both Aesop and the Book of Proverbs).  But this simple aphorism continues to be true.  A recent example is the $500,000 that Advanced Care Hospitalists (ACH) had to pay to the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OCR) to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.… More