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The EU General Data Protection Regulation – Europe Adopts Single Set of Privacy Rules

December 16, 2015 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On December 15, 2015, following four years of close, sometimes contentious, review, the EU institutions agreed upon the text of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).  One of the most important EU legislative initiatives in recent years, the GDPR is also a landmark in privacy regulation worldwide. As from the time the GDPR takes […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Enforcement, GDPR, International, Legislation, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Regulation, GDPR, International Data Transfers

FTC and Wyndham Settle Data Security Allegations

December 10, 2015 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On December 9, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Wyndham Worldwide Corp., Wyndham Hotel Group LLC, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, LLC, and Wyndham Hotel Management, Inc. (“Wyndham”) had agreed to settle FTC charges that the company’s security practices unfairly exposed the payment card information of consumers to hackers in three separate data breaches between […]

Filed Under: Data Breach, Enforcement, Privacy Litigation, Security Breach Tagged With: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Litigation

FTC and FCC Sign Consumer Protection MOU

November 30, 2015 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Since 2014, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has engaged in an increasing number of privacy and data security enforcement actions.  The scope of the Commission’s jurisdiction over carriers has also dramatically increased – at least temporarily – following its recent net neutrality order, which reclassified  broadband Internet access service as a telecommunications service under Title […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Data Security, Enforcement, Regulation Tagged With: Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

FTC’s Ability to Regulate Data Security Potentially Limited in FTC v. LabMD

November 19, 2015 By Alex Brown

A November 13, 2015 decision from the Federal Trade Commission’s Chief Administrative Law Judge, D. Michael Chappell, calls into question FTC enforcement in the data privacy space.  The case began when the FTC filed a complaint on August 28, 2013 after an employee of LabMD, a cancer detection laboratory, downloaded peer-to-peer (“P2P”) software that exposed patient […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Enforcement, Legislation, Privacy Litigation, Security Breach Tagged With: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement

Updated Schrems ECJ / Safe Harbor Ruling FAQs

November 16, 2015 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Alston & Bird has published an updated set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the decision by the European Court of Justice holding that the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework is invalid (also known as the Schrems decision). The FAQs are designed to help companies that rely on the Safe Harbor Framework understand the scope of the ECJ […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Enforcement, International, Online Privacy, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: Cross-border, EU Data Protection, European Court of Justice, European Union (EU), Max Schrems Decision, Safe Harbor

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