GT Shareholders Gretchen A. Ramos, Co-Chair of the Global Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, and Darren Abernethy will present the CLE webinar, “The Final CCPA Regulations: What You Need To Know,” March 2 at 12:00 p.m. PT. The webinar will provide an overview of key takeaways from the finalized proposed
On Nov. 9, 2022, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued a proposed second amendment to its 2017 cybersecurity regulation for financial service companies.[1] In July 2022, NYDFS issued a draft version of the changes, but the current amendment has significant changes. Most of the proposed changes will take effect 180 days
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) covers unsolicited calls and texts, aimed at protecting consumers from harassing and unwanted communications. With the April 2021 Facebook SCOTUS case[1] (see GT Alert) reducing the prevalence of some TCPA claims with private rights of action, new claims are starting to emerge as plaintiffs’ favorites.
One
Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Ian C. Ballon, Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice, will present the Strafford webinar “Mitigating Cybersecurity Class Action Litigation Risks: Policies, Procedures, Service Providers, Notification, Damages” on Thursday, Nov. 10, 1:00-2:30 p.m. EST.
The panel will discuss how businesses can implement policies, procedures, and
Greenberg Traurig is a sponsor of the 2022 Privacy + Security Forum Fall Academy at the George Washington University, which will break down the silos of privacy and security and bring together seasoned thought leaders for in-depth sessions and workshops designed to deliver practical takeaways for conference participants.
Shareholder Rebekah S. Guyon will present the
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In this GT Bulletin, Shareholders Jena Valdetero and Kevin Scott highlight five key trends that should be top-of-mind for businesses and organizations to protect their data systems and remain in compliance with the various rules to which they are subject. Click here to watch the full GT Bulletin.
On Aug. 11, 2022, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued guidance indicating that financial institutions and service providers that fail to adopt sufficient data security measures to protect consumer financial data may violate the Consumer Financial Protection Act provision prohibiting unfair acts and practices.
On Aug. 8, 2022, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed economic sanctions on Tornado Cash, a popular cryptocurrency mixing service that allows customers to obscure the original source of virtual currency transactions by “mixing” multiple transactions and then redistributing them. While mixing may have legitimate benefits in some transactions,
The term “targeted advertising” is defined relatively consistently between and among modern U.S. data privacy statutes with the noticeable exception of California which deviates somewhat in the California Privacy Rights Act’s (CPRA) definition of the similar term “cross-context behavioral advertising” by omitting any reference to tracking a person over time, or making predictions about a