Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

Brazil’s Data Protection Agency clarifies what sanctions look like for violations of the country’s General Data Protection Law.[1]

On Feb. 27, 2023, Brazil’s Data Protection Agency (ANPD) issued the Regulation of Dosimetry and Application of Administrative Sanction (Regulation), which details fines and other sanctions for violations of Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD) by

  1. An Increase in Extortion-Only Cyber Attacks – While ransomware attacks have been on the rise since 2020, a recent trend has emerged where threat actors are bypassing ransomware malware and encryption tactics and going straight to data theft. If a victim company does not pay the extortion demand, the threat actors engage in increasingly aggressive

GT Shareholders Ian C. Ballon and Jena M. Valdetero will present at PLI’s Advanced Data Privacy, Cybersecurity and TCPA Class Action Litigation 2023 event Jan. 26, 2023. The program will cover forensic tutorial guides; major new cases and trends from the past year in the law of data privacy and security breach; the latest

As part of a larger spending bill signed by President Biden on March 15, 2022, Congress passed the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRA) to increase funding for the federal Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Agency (CISA). CIRA requires companies considered to be in a “critical infrastructure” sector to notify CISA within 72 hours

Continuing its focus on cybersecurity, on March 9, 2022, in a party-line vote, the SEC proposed rules and amendments governing cybersecurity reporting requirements for public companies subject to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

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Greenberg Traurig is sponsoring the ACC’s 2022 Cybersecurity Summit, taking place March 8-10, 2022.

On March 9, Shareholder Gretchen A. Ramos, co-chair of the firm’s Global Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, will deliver the keynote session, “New Global Data Protection Laws.” The session will cover new privacy laws, structuring compliance efforts, obtaining

Join Gretchen Ramos, global co-chair of GT’s Data, Privacy, & Cybersecurity Practice, for PrivacyConnect’s “Data Privacy: 2022 Business Challenges and Solutions” webinar Jan. 27 at 10:00 a.m. EST.

The webinar will discuss questions on global expectations, local challenges, interplay between data privacy and AI, digitalization, competition, consumer affairs, cross-border trade, governance, regulatory enforcement,

A ransomware attack on a major U.S. gas pipeline sharpened people’s concerns about cybercrime in 2021, while the Biden administration balanced working with the private sector and threatening penalties for keeping breaches secret. GT Shareholder Jena M. Valdetero was mentioned in this article on cybersecurity steps the Biden administration has taken, published by Law360 Dec.

While the CCPA went into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, it did not become fully enforceable until July 1, 2020. When we passed the one-year anniversary of the CCPA becoming law, it provided an opportunity to assess the impact of the CCPA on privacy programs and to begin to benchmark against emerging industry standards. To

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