The last year has seen a rise in the number of complaints alleging misappropriation of likeness or right of publicity violations against media and technology companies. Companies offering free previews of databases containing personal information...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced updates to the Safeguards Rule to strengthen the data security safeguards that financial institutions must implement to protect their customers’ financial information. Notably, these Safeguards Rule revisions add...

Get ready for a wave of contract renegotiations and related compliance activities. The European Commission (“EC”) has published two sets of standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) to address different aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation...

The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled that people do not exceed authorized access under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) when they merely access information on a computer for an improper purpose. ...

The Bavarian Data Protection Authority (DPA) declared that a German company’s transfer of email addresses to U.S.-based email service Mailchimp was unlawful in light of the 2020 “Schrems II” decision issued by the Court of Justice of the...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has vacated a $4.3 million civil monetary penalty that the Department of Health and Human Services levied against a covered entity in 2017, finding the fine was arbitrary,...