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FTC Releases Warning to Companies that Fail to Mitigate Log4j Vulnerability

January 5, 2022 By Jon Knight and Alysa Austin

Less than a month ago, a critical vulnerability was identified in the ubiquitous, open source Log4j tool prompting swift guidance from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other security practitioners.  Now, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned companies that it “intends to use its full legal authority” against any company that fails to […]

Filed Under: Cyber Risk, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Enforcement, FTC Tagged With: cybersecurity, Log4j, vulnerability

FTC Revises the Safeguards Rule and Proposes Mandatory Reporting of Cybersecurity Events

November 1, 2021 By Kathleen Benway, Kim Peretti and Kate Hanniford

On October 27, 2021, the FTC released its much-anticipated final revisions to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Safeguards Rule (Safeguards Rule or Final Rule), following a 3-2 vote along party lines and also released a notice of proposed rulemaking that would  require reporting to the FTC of certain cybersecurity events. Revisions to the Safeguards Rule Effective since 2003, […]

Filed Under: Cyber Risk, Cybersecurity, Data Security, Enforcement, FTC

Alston & Bird Attorneys Propose Assessing Data Portability in Antitrust Context

December 1, 2020 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

In the November 2020 edition of the Competition Policy International Antitrust Chronicle, Georgia Tech professor and Alston & Bird senior counsel Peter Swire and partner John Snyder discuss ways to utilize the Portability and Other Required Transfers Impact Assessment (“PORT-IA”) in the context of antitrust law. The PORT-IA is a structured set of questions based […]

Filed Under: Enforcement, FTC, Privacy Tagged With: Antitrust, Data Portability, Data Transfers

Peter Swire Announced as Key Speaker at FTC Workshop on Data Portability

September 10, 2020 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) today announced that Peter Swire, Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird LLP and Elizabeth and Thomas Holder Chair at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, will deliver a key presentation at the upcoming FTC Workshop on Data Portability (“Workshop”). Data portability refers to the ability of consumers to move data […]

Filed Under: FTC, Online Privacy, Privacy

‘Schrems II’ backs the European legal regime into a corner — How can it get out?

July 16, 2020 By Dorian Simmons

On July 16, the Court of Justice of the European Union struck down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield in the ‘Schrems 2.0’ Case (Facebook Ireland and Schrems (Case C-311/18)).  In an article for the International Association of Privacy Professionals, Alston & Bird Senior Counsel Peter Swire analyzes the decision and discusses potential implications, including those relating […]

Filed Under: China, Data Protection, Data Security, FTC, GDPR, International, National Security, Privacy Shield

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