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On January 16, 2015, President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron agreed to deepen their cybersecurity cooperation to better protect American and British citizens. Obama assured that they will work “to find … a consistent framework whereby our publics have confidence that their government can both protect them, but not abuse our capacity to operate in […]

On January 15, 2015, NY Attorney General A.G. Schneiderman announced that he would propose legislation that will impose new data security standards to protect personal information, broaden the scope of information subject to existing breach notification laws, and encourage companies to meet highest standards for data protection. Currently, New York State does not have a […]

On January 29, 2015, the House Technology & Economic Development Committee passed Bill 1093 which prohibits flying drones onto someone’s private property and record them without their consent. “The legislature intends to protect personal privacy by prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft equipped with sensing devices that collect personal information, including images of individuals on […]

On November 26, 2014, Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (“WP29”) issued a document WP 226 (14/EN) to create a procedure enabling companies to: (i) frame transfers from different EU Member States; (ii) obtain a coordinated position of the competent DPAs regarding the proposed contract; and (iii) decide in particular if the contract is in […]

On January 27, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission “FTC” released a detailed report on the Internet of Things (“IoT”), recommending a series of concrete steps for businesses to enhance and protect consumers’ privacy and security. The report includes several recommendations addressing four main topics. First, it recommends the implementation of security measures for companies developing […]

German data watchdogs met in Berlin on January 28, 2015, to discuss the transfer of data between the EU and the USA. The leaders debated on the validity of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework in the post-Snowden era. The details of the discussion are available at https://www.huntonprivacyblog… More information is available at http://www.zdnet… The conference’s program (in […]

On January 2015, the World Economic Forum released a new framework designed to help businesses identify cyber threats and build potential quantification models to calculate the impact of these threats. The framework is called “cyber value-at-risk”. It is proposed with the report  ‘Partnering for Cyber Resilience: Towards the Quantification of Cyber Threats’ and it was […]

The Justice Department has reached a $134,000 settlement with a New York woman after the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) set up a fake Facebook account in her name using seized pictures. The settlement takes into account emerging personal privacy concerns. Facebook had previously disabled the law enforcement agency’s fake profile. See here. Stipulation of the settlement […]

The Chilean government has just published an open consultation about its data protection bill. The text of the bill – which is expected to be a “European style” data protection law – will be published soon. More information are available in English here, and here, and in Spanish here and here Follow us on& Like us on   

In this case of breach of license agreement, after several discovery disputes among the parties, on December 9, 2014, a federal court fashioned a what it called a “new and simpler approach” to e-discovery, including the identification of 13 search terms/phrases to be utilized when searching Plaintiff’s corporate documents. Armstrong Pump, Inc. v. Hartman, No. 10-CV-446S, 2014 […]