On May 10, 2023, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) released Revision 3 to its foundational publication, 800-171, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations. The publication provides guidelines for protecting sensitive unclassified information in contractor systems, and these guidelines establish the baseline cybersecurity requirements for federal defense contractors.
Rebekah S. Guyon, a shareholder in GT’s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, is quoted in a Corporate Counsel article titled “Big-Dollar Biometric Settlements Emboldening Plaintiffs Attorneys to Bring More Cases.”
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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,
DRI’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Committee’s virtual seminar will take place Tuesday, Oct. 26 and provide an overview of important data protection and privacy concepts and review data protection and privacy obligations imposed by state and global laws and regulations. Topics discussed will include how to comply with the challenging and ever-changing data protection and