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In the Know: Top 5 Legal Technology Trends for the 2020s Image

In the Know: Top 5 Legal Technology Trends for the 2020s

Deb Dobson

Technology allows attorneys to keep informed so they can help their clients understand the potential impact on their company.

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Defining Reasonable Care for the Protection of Personal Data Image

Defining Reasonable Care for the Protection of Personal Data

Devin Chwastyk

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court enlivened the Thanksgiving holidays of privacy lawyers in 2018 with its decision in Dittman v. UPMC, which held that an employer has a legal duty to exercise reasonable care to safeguard employees' personal information. While the scope of the decision technically was confined to the employer-employee relationship, the court's reasoning implies that such a duty of reasonable care may arise in any scenario where one party engages in the collection of personal information.

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Florida Lawmakers Introduce Online Privacy Legislation

David M. Stauss & Malia Rogers

Florida lawmakers have introduced companion bills in the Florida House (HB 963) and Senate (SB 1670) that would create limited online privacy rights and obligations in the state. The legislation appears to be very similar to the Nevada Online Privacy Protection Act, which was amended last year to add a right to opt-out of sales of covered information.

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More Regulation, Stronger Investigations and Home Tech Devices Concerns to Come in 2020, New Gibson Dunn Report Warns Image

More Regulation, Stronger Investigations and Home Tech Devices Concerns to Come in 2020, New Gibson Dunn Report Warns

Steve Salkin

On Data Privacy Day last month, Gibson Dunn released the eighth edition of its United States Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review. The report details trends that the privacy industry saw in 2019 from a legislative, regulatory and judicial perspective.

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A Look Behind, A Look Ahead: Part 1 - Cybersecurity Image

A Look Behind, A Look Ahead: Part 1 - Cybersecurity

Steve Salkin

Cybersecurity Law & Strategy partnered with our ALM sibling Legaltech News to ask cybersecurity and e-discovery experts what they thought the key trends were in 2019 and what they expect to see in 2020.

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Data Privacy: Building Compliant and Adaptable Systems Image

Data Privacy: Building Compliant and Adaptable Systems

Tomas Suros

Rather than trying to institute changes to comply with every new privacy law as it emerges, a better approach is to view data privacy as an overall framework and adopt a holistic response to compliance with the built-in flexibility to constantly adapt to an ever-changing legal landscape.

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GDPR Had Some Bite in 2019 Image

GDPR Had Some Bite in 2019

Victoria Hudgins

Although no company was hit with the maximum GDPR fine of 4% of the company's worldwide annual revenue, GDPR fines issued in 2019 were still a force to be reckoned with.

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Unique Cyber Risks Faced By the Cannabis Industry Image

Unique Cyber Risks Faced By the Cannabis Industry

Victoria Hudgins

All companies face cybersecurity threats, but the legalized cannabis industry's storage of personally identifiable information and reliance on seed-to-sale tracking software can place it firmly within hackers' crosshairs.

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What Is the Appropriate Statute of Limitations Period for BIPA Claims? Image

What Is the Appropriate Statute of Limitations Period for BIPA Claims?

Sean Wieber, Patrick O'Meara & Eric Shinabarger

The BIPA compliance lag has led companies using or collecting biometric information to consider how far back their liability may extend. The Illinois General Assembly, however, did not include an explicit statute of limitations period in BIPA. As a result, the statute of limitations has become one of BIPA's primary battlegrounds as litigants argue about potential class sizes and damages awards.

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