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Marriott Moves to Dismiss Data Breach Lawsuit, Says Passport Numbers Useless to Hackers Image

Marriott Moves to Dismiss Data Breach Lawsuit, Says Passport Numbers Useless to Hackers

Amanda Bronstad

In Its Motion To Dismiss, Marriott Insisted the Breach Caused No Harm to Its Guests and Attached a Declaration By a Former Government Official Who Wrote: "A U.S. Passport Is Virtually Impossible to Forge Successfully." Marriott is insisting that last year's cyberattack did no harm to its hotel guests, not least of which because hackers cannot use stolen passport numbers.

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Legislative Heat Wave: A Mid-Year Review of Upcoming Cybersecurity Laws and Enforcement Activity Image

Legislative Heat Wave: A Mid-Year Review of Upcoming Cybersecurity Laws and Enforcement Activity

Michael Bahar, Sarah Paul, Mary Jane Wilson-Bilik & Ali Jessani

While legislation to enhance data privacy rights and obligations continue to make headlines, regulators and legislators are also stepping up their cybersecurity expectations. In the first half of 2019, a number of states have updated their existing data breach notification laws and passed new cybersecurity requirements.

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How to Keep Mobile Data Safe: The Case for On-Device AI Image

How to Keep Mobile Data Safe: The Case for On-Device AI

Gevorg Karapetyan

Bring Your Own Device is one of the biggest compliance-related issues companies face today, and when it comes to security risks, law firms are prime targets. Considering law firms are built on their reputation, firms must make every assurance that the technology they use will protect their data.

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SHIELD Act Signed in NY Image

SHIELD Act Signed in NY

F. Paul Greene

<b><i>Defines Data Breach and Requires Data Security Controls</b></i><p>New York has brought itself into line with a number of states concerning how they define a data breach, and, where applicable, what substantive security controls they require.

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EU Court Rules Adding Facebook 'Like' Button Triggers GDPR Data Collection Obligation Image

EU Court Rules Adding Facebook 'Like' Button Triggers GDPR Data Collection Obligation

Caroline Spiezio

Websites with embedded Facebook “like” buttons must inform users their data will be collected and processed by the social media giant, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled.

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Legal Tech: Smart Speakers and E-Discovery Image

Legal Tech: Smart Speakers and E-Discovery

Brian Schrader

For businesses that own such a device, or for individual employees who might have a personally owned one on their office desk, the question of who owns any recorded data remains murky.

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How Changes In Texas Anti-SLAPP Statute Affects Entertainment Industry Image

How Changes In Texas Anti-SLAPP Statute Affects Entertainment Industry

Brent Turman

Approximately 30 states have enacted anti-SLAPP statutes, which are intended to deter lawsuits that impede the right to free speech and other related activities. New statutory language in Texas's anti-SLAPP statute specifically protects those in the entertainment and media industries, and such explicit reference should prove comfort to content creators and publishers.

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The International Encryption Debate: Privacy Versus Big Brother Image

The International Encryption Debate: Privacy Versus Big Brother

Robert J. Anello & Richard F. Albert

Although increased reliance on technology such as emails and texts has provided greater opportunity to gather evidence of criminal activity, law enforcement agencies around the world complain that encryption technologies make it difficult to catch criminals and terrorists and therefore should be restricted.

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Are Companies Playing It Too Safe With GDPR Breach Reporting? Image

Are Companies Playing It Too Safe With GDPR Breach Reporting?

Frank Ready

A new report from the law firm of Pinsent Masons shows that there has been a high level of GDPR "over-reporting" at the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office, but organizations who may think they are playing it safe may actually be opening themselves up to further regulatory scrutiny.

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Clients Drive Information Governance: Payment Tied to Guideline Compliance Image

Clients Drive Information Governance: Payment Tied to Guideline Compliance

Stephen Cole

To comply with the data side of the Outside Counsel Guidelines, firms must have a clear information governance strategy for which the firm's use of technology systems is foundational.

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