In honor of Data Privacy Day—a worldwide effort to raise
awareness and promote best practices in privacy and data
protection—we offer this eighth edition of Gibson Dunn's
United States Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and
Review.
In 2019, companies, courts, and regulators faced unprecedented
challenges as they navigated a rapidly evolving set of
cybersecurity and privacy issues. Congress and state legislatures
proposed (and, in the case of some states, enacted) measures
ranging from limits on the use of consumer data to protecting
children's internet privacy. Increasingly active federal and
state regulators enforced data privacy, cybersecurity, and consumer
protection standards in the face of novel cybersecurity threats.
Private parties stepped up the pace of civil litigation in a year
that saw numerous high-profile data breaches and continued
questions over who can sue for damages. And questions regarding the
government's ability to access data, from biometric
