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On Feb. 10, 2021, Acting Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter offered a glimpse of where the FTC may be headed under the Biden administration and confirmed that privacy remains among the Commission’s top priorities.

In her keynote address to the Future of Privacy Forum, Slaughter shared her views on the FTC’s role…

Given the circumstances of most ransomware attacks, likely yes.

The EDPB issued practical guidance on various types of data breaches, giving top billing to ransomware attacks. Given the recent increase in ransomware attacks likely due to the sudden shift to remote work in response to COVID-19, the EDPB’s guidance focuses extensively on ransomware attacks. In…

  1. EEA Cross-Border Transfers. The U.S. and the EU will work towards, and hopefully reach, a cross-border data transfer solution.
  2. Ransomware. More ransomware attacks and increased regulatory scrutiny of companies that pay ransom demands.
  3. Digital Advertising. Development of alternate marketing strategies, and perhaps more reliance on consumer opt-in, as privacy laws further erode traditional tracking

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Notwithstanding a two-month-long pandemic shutdown, a wave of new legislation has flooded the halls of the California legislature, including four discreet privacy-related bills, each with different objectives and consequences. Upon the closing of the signature period, Gov. Newsom signed only two of the bills into law, vetoing the other two.

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As the way we work, consume, travel, and interact has changed due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), so too has the way our children learn and play changed. Millions of children (and families) affected by the closures of in-person schools, day cares, athletics, summer camps, and other kids programming now rely on home computers and…

Shareholder Gretchen A. Ramos of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP will speak on the online roundtable, “COVID-19 and the Internet,” May 7, at 1:00 pm ET, hosted by CircleID.

ICANN President & CEO Goran Marby, Cloudflare’s Head of European Public Policy Caroline Greer, and ARIN’s Director of Caribbean Affairs Veil Wooding…

In an April 8 letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) urged the FTC to issue formal privacy and cybersecurity guidance for companies engaged in producing online conferencing services, and best practices for users of such services. This request comes in response to an exponential increase in the usage of videoconferencing…