On April 26, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") Office for Civil Rights announced reductions in available penalties for three out of four tiers of privacy and security

On August 13, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission approved changes to the video game industry's safe harbor guidelines under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") Ru

On August 6, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission published a notice seeking public comment on whether the FTC should expand its enforcement power over corporate privacy and data security practices.

Specific details of the possible bill are unknown.

On September 5, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California held that a class action arising from a 2016 Uber Technologies Inc. ("Uber") data breach must proceed to arbitration.

Recently, the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC") announced that it is now accepting applications for national bank charters from nondepository banking institutions.

The acting general counsel of the Federal Election Commission ("FEC") recently published for public comment a draft advisory opinion under the Federal Election Campaign Act

Effective October 1, 2018, Connecticut law requires organizations that experience a security breach affecting Connecticut residents' Social Security numbers to provide 24 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

As we previously reported, in May 2018, more than 40 state and provincial securities regulators in the United States and Canada launched a coordinated enforcement sweep of the ICO market dubbed

The Visa Bulletin is released monthly by the Department of State and is used to determine when a sponsored foreign national can submit the final step of the green card process.

Activist investors continue to make liberal use of the SEC's Rule 14a-8 to submit proposals for inclusion in company proxy statements.

Starting in May 2019, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will issue I-94 numbers with letters in addition to numbers.

The Fifth Circuit in Evanston Insurance Co. v. Mid-Continent Casualty Co. recently held that multiple collisions caused by the same insured driver over a span of 10 minutes constitute a single occurrence subject to a $1 million limit in the insured's primary policy with Mid-Continent.

In a prior post, we discussed a New York trial-court decision that found an insurance policy issued in 1966, to insure the construction of the World Trade Center, continues to cover modern-day...

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to resolve a growing split of authority among lower federal circuit courts regarding the requirement under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...

Ghost kitchens are one of the hottest trends in food. Ghost kitchens are delivery-only restaurants found almost exclusively on food delivery apps like UberEats and Grubhub.

Oil and gas industry events during October served to underline the critical role that technology development will have in the future of the oil and gas industry.

On November 30, 2018, the Austrian Data Protection Authority ("DPA") published a decision in response to a complaint received from an individual regarding the cookie consent options offered on an Austrian newspaper's website.

On February 20, 2019, the French data protection authority (the "CNIL") published a set of questions and answers ("FAQs") indicating the CNIL's recommendations ...

EU data protection authorities ("DPAs") are proving their willingness as enforcers with respect to the GDPR, not just with regard to the most serious acts of non-compliance ...