On April 17, 2023, the Washington State Legislature passed the “My Health My Data Act” (WMHMDA or the Act), which took effect for most companies March 31, 2024. Unlike other modern state privacy laws that purport to regulate any collection of “personal data,” WMHMDA confers privacy protections only upon “consumer health data.” This…

On April 2, 2024, Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Ian C. Ballon, co-chair of the Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice, will lead the workshop, “The Changing Nature of State Court Data Privacy Litigation and Mass Arbitration.” The session will analyze the nature of state claims, how to mitigate the substantive risks of litigation…

On March 22, 2024, the centralized regulator of cyber and data security, the Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC), published the Provisions on Promoting and Regulating the Cross-border Flow of Data (New Provisions), relaxing the existing requirements relating to cross-border data transfers. The New Provisions took immediate effect on March 22, 2024.

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Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Shareholders Todd Basile and Tyler Thompson will present the CLE webinar, “Roadblocks and Turbulence: Data Issues in Autonomous Vehicles, UAVs, and More,” on Wednesday, March 13.

Data is critical to the burgeoning autonomous and unmanned vehicle spaces. Whether by land, sea, or air, data is both the fuel and the…

On February 28 President Biden issued an Executive Order “to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data from exploitation by countries of concern.” (EO 14117, “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data by Countries of Concern.”)

On March 5 the National Security Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) published an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking…

Greenberg Traurig Data Privacy & Cybersecurity attorneys Tyler Thompson and Talia Boiangin will present the CLE webinar, “Privacy Program Management: How to Actually “DO” Privacy: Implementing a Practical Privacy Compliance Program at Any Company,” on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.

The companies with the most successful privacy compliance programs are not the ones with the…

Greenberg Traurig Data Privacy & Cybersecurity attorneys David Zetoony and Reena Bajowala will present the webinar, “Governing AI: What should you be considering when setting up the governance structure for how your company will use AI?,” on Tuesday, March 5, 2024.

Companies in every industry are considering how to integrate AI into their business…

Jena M. Valdetero, Co-Chair of the firm’s Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, and Steven M. Malina, a member of GT’s Litigation Practice, were quoted in a Dark Reading article titled “Orgs Face Major SEC Penalties for Failing to Disclose Breaches.”

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On Dec. 26, 2023, DoD published a proposed rule implementing the CMMC Program (the Proposed Rule). The regulations come more than three years after the release of the initial CMMC regulations (November 2020) and two years after the Biden administration announced the revised “CMMC 2.0” program (January 2021). The Proposed Rule largely reflects the CMMC…

Greenberg Traurig Data Privacy & Cybersecurity attorneys David Zetoony, Darren Abernethy, and Andrea Maciejewski will present the CLE webinar, “Are you ready for it? What in-house counsel need to know to be prepared for the death of third-party cookies,” on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. The most popular web browser has…