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California Mandates COVID Exposure and Outbreak Reporting to Employees, Government Agencies

September 23, 2020 By Aaron Wasser and Daniel Felz

On Thursday, September 17, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 685 (“AB685”) into law.  AB685 amends a number of portions of California’s Labor Code to address the COVID-19 pandemic.  In addition to provisions that regulate reopening activities at California worksites, AB685 introduces two new COVID-related notification obligations for California employers: (1) a requirement […]

Filed Under: Advisories, California, Cybersecurity, Health Privacy, Online Privacy, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: Behavioral Tracking, Big Data, cybersecurity, Health Information Security, Regulatory Enforcement

Final CCPA Regulations Approved, Effective Immediately

August 18, 2020 By Daniel Felz and Aaron Wasser

On Friday, August 14, 2020, the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the California Office of the Attorney General’s (OAG) Final CCPA Regulations (the “Regulations”) and filed them with California Secretary of State.  The Regulations became effective immediately. The OAL-approved Regulations contain several modifications from prior versions. While many of the changes are purely […]

Filed Under: Advisories, California, CCPA, Legislation, Privacy, Privacy Policy, Regulation

Geopolitical Implications of the European Court’s Schrems II Decision

July 17, 2020 By Aaron Wasser

On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, a principal legal method for the transfer of personal data from the EU to the United States. The CJEU ruling further cast doubt on the standard contractual clauses, the other means of effecting such international transfers. In […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Data Protection, Privacy, Privacy Shield, Regulation

UK National Cyber Security Centre Advisory: Russian Attackers, APT29, Targets Companies Involved in COVID-19 Vaccine Development

July 17, 2020 By Amy Mushahwar, Kimberly Peretti and Larry Sommerfeld

Yesterday, the UK National Cyber Security Centre and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment released an advisory linking APT29 (also known as, ‘the Dukes’ or ‘Cozy Bear’) to attacks against COVID-19 vaccine development in Canada, the US and the UK.  The Advisory stated that APT29 is “almost certainly part of the Russian intelligence services.”  APT29/Cozy Bear was […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Cyber Risk, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Crimes, National Security

SEC’s OCIE Issues Ransomware Risk Alert

July 13, 2020 By Kate Hanniford

On July 10, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a Risk Alert noting the increasing sophistication of ransomware attacks on SEC registrants and service providers to SEC registrants.  The Risk Alert is notable for its encouragement of financial services market participants more broadly and not just SEC registrants to monitor CISA […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Cyber Risk, Data Security

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