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What Constitutes a Misleading Statement in a Company’s Response to a Data Breach?

June 27, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog, The Privacy Hacks

By: Christopher A. Iacono , Quintin DiLucente

Takeaway: To ensure investor safety and emphasize a commitment to user privacy, corporate executives and similarly-situated high ranking officers must not provide any statements or omissions that affirmatively create a misleading impression of the current “state of affairs that differed in a material way from the one that actually existed.”... Read More

DOJ Clarifies Policy for Prosecutions Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

June 17, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog, The Privacy Hacks

By: Christopher A. Iacono , Mary Kate McDevitt

Takeaway: The DOJ’s recent revisions to their internal policy promote the Department’s goals that the CFAA is applied consistently by government attorneys and better understood by the public. These goals ensure that the law adequately responds to evolving cybersecurity and privacy challenges. On May 19, 2022 the Department of Justice... Read More

Poisoned Robots: Data Poisoning Threatens AI-Powered Mechanisms

May 12, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog, The Privacy Hacks

Takeaway: Companies need to be vigilant about feeding their machines clean data to avoid hackers poisoning their networks. Artificial intelligence is everywhere: from facial recognition technology to weather forecasting.  As we get better at training computers to become more sophisticated with prediction models, hackers are developing stealthier methods to poison... Read More

New CIRCIA Bill and What It Means for Whistleblowers

May 3, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog, The Privacy Hacks

By: Christopher A. Iacono

Takeaway: Uncertainties over threats of cyberattacks resulted in both the House and Senate passing CIRCIA, which created an opportunity for whistleblowers to come forward under the False Claims Act with information about agencies and contractors failing to report cybersecurity breaches in a timely manner. Following CIRCIA, Congress voted to pass the Better Cybercrime Metrics Act to help analyze the effectiveness of cybercrime... Read More

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