18 Oct, 2023 California’s Delete Act Could Be Next Frontier Beyond CCPA By Christine Lyon Jackson Myers Freshfields’ Christine Lyon and Jackson Myers analyze California’s newly signed Delete Act and how it could affect state residents’...
06 Feb, 2023 Updated Data Protection and Cybersecurity Guidelines for International Arbitration By Maria Paz Lestido Lee Rovinescu Christine Lyon The international arbitration community has been increasing its attention to data protection and cybersecurity issues. Given the...
17 Nov, 2022 OFAC Redesignates “Tornado Cash” as US Regulators Continue Targeting Virtual Currency By Timothy Howard Nabeel Yousef Brock Dahl Stephanie Brown Cripps Andrew Bulovsky Adam Silow +3 more... Show less On August 8, 2022, the US Treasury Department’s (Treasury) Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it designated the...
23 Nov, 2018 Cyber Security – call for board-level accountability By Brendan McCarthy Rhodri Thomas Emily Tilden-Smith On 19 November 2018, the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy published its report on the UK’s critical national...
22 Nov, 2018 Cyber Security Summit and Expo 2018 By Raphaella Pitt Our Cybersecurity team recently had a stand at the Cyber Security Summit & Expo 2018, giving us the chance to chat with a diverse group...
10 Sep, 2018 Japan / EU Data Flows – draft adequacy decision published By Stephanie Morgan Richard Bird The European Union has moved one step closer to adopting a formal adequacy decision in respect of Japan. The Commission published its...
28 Jun, 2018 Yahoo! fined £250k for 2014 data breach - what can we learn? By Sara Sayeed Recently, the Information Commissioner’s Office fined Yahoo £250,000 in connection with the cyber-attack it suffered in 2014, which...
09 Oct, 2017 Cyber-security and financial institutions By Rhodri Thomas This post looks at the legal landscape for financial institutions in the wake of the Equifax cyber-attack. The scale and sophistication...
21 Sep, 2017 Will Equifax end data breach class actions? By Peter Jaffe For the past few years, federal courts have grappled with whether a plaintiff whose personal information has been hacked has experienced...
24 May, 2017 Target Settles Investigations into 2013 Cybersecurity Breach By Timothy Harkness The hack into Target's computers has spawned attention, law suits, and investigations. Now, Target has put its state investigations...
28 Apr, 2017 New malware that turns IoT devices into bricks raises product liability risks By Julia Utzerath A security company has discovered malware that is attacking smart devices such as webcams and smart home infrastructure. Similar to the...
16 Mar, 2017 Your company’s been hacked - what now? Do you know what to do in a data crisis? By Jacqueline Drury Awareness of and reaction to cyber threats is growing. Cyber security is increasingly a board issue, and regulators are increasingly...