The Georgia Court of Appeals recently reaffirmed its prior conclusion that there is no duty to safeguard personal information under Georgia law. In McConnell v. Ga. Dep’t of Labor, --- S.E.2d ----, 2018 WL 2173252 (Ga. App. May 11, 2018), the Court … [Read more] about Georgia Court of Appeals Reaffirms Lack of Duty to Safeguard Personal Information
Today Alston & Bird’s Peter Swire and DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, with support from Senzing, Inc., are publishing a White Paper titled The Importance of Accurate Retrieval of Data Subjects’ Personal Data in Complying with GDPR Individual Rights … [Read more] about Alston & Bird Issues Data Protection Paper on Accurate Retrieval of Personal Data under the GDPR
Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Team has been named to the first-annual Above The Law (ATL) Top Law Firm Privacy Practice Index. Firms named to the Index were rated by nearly 300 in-house counsel on the “strength and quality” of their … [Read more] about Alston & Bird Named to ATL Top Law Firm Privacy Practice Index
On February 28, 2018, the Belgian Privacy Commission issued a recommendation on the position it takes with regard to data protection impact assessments (or “DPIAs”) as foreseen in the GDPR. A DPIA under the GDPR is similar in scope and impact to its … [Read more] about Belgian Privacy Commission Issues DPIA “Black” and “White List” Recommendation
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s $35 million settlement with Altaba Inc., the successor in interest to Yahoo! Inc., is the first civil penalty of its kind for a data breach and underscores the agency’s increasing focus on public companies’ … [Read more] about SEC Announces Its First Enforcement Action Over Cyber-related Disclosures