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
June 17, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog, The Privacy Hacks
By:
Christopher A. Iacono
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
June 14, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog, The Privacy Hacks
Takeaway: Federal agencies will need to consider the five-step assessment process to get authorization from CISA before operating with 5G technology. As the adoption of 5G technology by many private and public organizations approaches, assessments are being put in place to evaluate whether federal agencies can operate with 5G technology.... Read More
June 8, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog
The closure of the Studebaker-Packard Corporation car manufacturing plant in 1963 was a major catalyst leading into the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Savings Act of 1974 (“ERISA.”) This pension plan had promised generous benefits for the participants, but the plan was severely underfunded and was not able to cover... Read More
June 1, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog, The Privacy Hacks
By:
Christopher A. Iacono
Takeaway: While the current patchwork of state consumer privacy laws is complex, there are consumer rights and business obligations that are common to all of the laws. An awareness of these key concepts will help make it easier for compliance. Without a comprehensive federal privacy law, consumer privacy has been... Read More
May 19, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog, The Privacy Hacks
By:
Christopher A. Iacono
Takeaway: The new Better Cybercrime Metrics Act will help the federal government track, measure, analyze, and prosecute cybercrime. On May 6, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Better Cybercrime Metrics Act.[1] This Act encourages local law enforcement to report incidents of cybercrime to the FBI to build a database of... Read More
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
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
April 13, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog, The Privacy Hacks
By:
Quintin DiLucente
Takeaway: In the wake of a data breach, a class of Plaintiffs whose personal and/or financial information is disseminated to third parties all share the same concern – the risk of future harm. But in order for these Plaintiffs to have standing to sue over the wrongful dissemination of their... Read More
April 5, 2022
Blog, Insights & Impact Business Blog, The Privacy Hacks
Takeaway: With increasing numbers of cybersecurity attacks, foreign and domestic, organizations are even more likely to experience some kind of data breach threat this year. Knowing what that threat looks like, allows organizations to arm themselves against these eminent attacks and to implement policy regulations in time to prevent absolute... Read More
