The law contains two major provisions.

On January 23, the NY DFS released updated guidance with regard to better protecting consumers in the event of virtual currency insolvency.

Businesses collecting personal information from New York residents will soon be expected to apply enhanced data security requirements. The New York SHIELD Act, signed into law in July 2019,..

After discovery, SolarWinds released a series of hot fixes to address vulnerabilities in their software associated with the attack.

It is common for individuals to see the "padlock icon" on their browser bar when visiting a website, and assume they are safe. Sadly, this assumption is no longer valid

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In this episode, we discuss NFTS.

For the fourth year running, the Securities and Exchange Commission's Office continues to list cybersecurity as one of the top enforcement priorities for 2019.

As the world economy increasingly goes digital, innovators and existing market participants are finding new ways to tokenize assets and expand upon their uses, particularly with non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Utah recently amended its breach notice law to provide certain defenses to companies who suffer a data breach.

Washington state has amended its property rights law to prohibit AI deepfakes, creating new protections against forged digital likenesses that mirror an individual's voice or appearance to deceive others. The law, effective June 2026, increases civil penalties and allows recovery for reputational harm and emotional distress when unauthorized AI-generated replicas are used in advertising or commercial products.

As we wrote yesterday, the CIO of Equifax is currently facing civil and criminal liability following trading he made after his employer suffered a major cybersecurity breach

Late last year, Australia's Attorney General confirmed that Australia planned to participate in APEC's Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) system.

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CNIL, the French data privacy regulator, issued a 400,000 euro ($448,358) fine against a company for GDPR violations stemming from sensitive information collected on its website

Citing cybersecurity concerns with a children's smartwatch, the European Commission recently issued a recall of the device.

Around the same time, the CNIL sought input on proposed regulations, which have now been adopted.

The EDPB recently announced its second topic for coordinated enforcement. At a national level, data protection authorities in the EU will be looking into the position of the data protection officer.

For these reasons, a monetary penalty of £40,000 was deemed sufficient.

On October 14, 2014, Bruce Colbath and Sheppard Mullin presented the ABA Antitrust Section, Consumer Protection SubCommittee September 2014 Monthly Consumer Protection Update.