The authors provides five interesting practice points (Representations and Warranties, Indemnification, Limitation of Liability, Insurance, Data Ownership and Use) regarding provider responsibility in enterprise cloud service agreements. The full text is available at http://www.dataprivacymonitor.com…
The author suggests five “relatively simple ways to improve information security and reduce the impact of a potential data breach” for organizations. The full text is available at http://www.dataprivacymonitor.com…
Update on: Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation et al, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, case no. 13-cv-1887 On December 9, 2015, Wyndham agreed to settle FTC charges that the company “failed to provide reasonable and appropriate security for the personal information [it] collected” (here). According to the settlement agreement, […]
On December 2, 2015, Shaun Donovan, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, spoke to an audience of privacy professionals at the Federal Privacy Summit. Director Donovan recognized the importance for the Government to continuously maintain its efforts to protect citizens’ privacy. Donovan announced “plans to establish a new Federal Privacy Council, […]
For the first time, EU institutions agreed that companies providing essential services must be cyberattack-proof. Critical operators in crucial sectors such as transport and energy companies will have to ensure that the digital infrastructure that they use to deliver essential services, such as traffic control or electricity grid management, is robust enough to withstand […]
In an Order dated October 15, 2015, a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the N.D. of California granted the motion of a putative class of plaintiffs requiring Facebook to produce information in response to interrogatories and a 30(b)(6) deposition notice. The plaintiffs allege that Facebook has violated the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act and California privacy […]
Privacy Laws & Business reports (here) that Věra Jourová, the European Commissioner for Justice, expects teh EU institutions to arrive at an agreement on the EU Data Protection Regulation in the next two weeks, before the end of 2015. More on the EU trilogue negotiation is available at http://www.technethics.com… For more information, Francesca Giannoni-Crystal Follow […]
On November 9, 2015, the D.C. District Court filed an order barring the US government from collecting, as part of the NSA’s Bulk Telephony Metadata Program, any metadata associated with a California lawyer and his law firm. Klayman v. Obama. However, on November 10, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered […]
The authors discuss cross-device tracking; the process of tracking a single consumer across all of the consumer’s devices, and its recent development. The full text is available at http://www.dataprivacymonitor.com…
What is this all about? The EU is in the process of reforming its existing data protection rules. These reforms have been moving slowly through the EU legislative pipeline but we seem now to be getting closer to a final agreement. Even though the expected implementation date of these rules is still likely to be […]