April 26, 2022 | Blogs

Blockchain. Does it protect personal privacy? Is it a tool that can evade the law? How should we thi...

April 19, 2022 | Blogs

On March 31, 2022, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed ...

March 31, 2022 | Blogs

Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) becomes effective on April 1, 2022. T...

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Publication: Bloomberg Law

Publish Date: March 24, 2022

Authors: Jean Paul Yugo Nagashima

March 21, 2022 | Blogs

The Life of an Outsourced DPO The data protection laws of the European Union require many European a...

March 18, 2022 | Blogs

In recent years, online crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe have eme...

March 11, 2022 | Publications

The Utah legislature recently passed the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA). UCPA is a comprehensive p...

March 9, 2022 | Blogs

President Biden issued an Executive Order (the “Order”) earlier outlining the administration’s...

March 1, 2022 | Blogs

The increased popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has potential to inspire new methods of creat...

February 17, 2022 | Blogs

Hacking – it gets a bad rap. For good reason. It’s associated with bad actors who infiltrate an ...

February 11, 2022 | Blogs

India is about to enact a far-reaching Data Privacy Law. Expected to be passed by April 2022 and in ...

January 28, 2022 | Blogs

Does a Privacy Apocalypse Draw Near? Quantum computing – some view its emergence as heralding the ...

January 28, 2022 | Blogs

 Data Privacy Detective Podcast · Top 5 Tracks – Data Privacy Day 2022 Top 5 Tracks ...

January 24, 2022 | Blogs

Backup – what does it have to do with protecting data privacy? And how does a backup service work?...

January 18, 2022 | Blogs

Taiwan occupies a unique geopolitical position – with a substantial population and robust economy,...

January 5, 2022 | Blogs

Turkey is the first 2022 stop on our global tour about data localization. What is Turkey’s approac...

December 27, 2021 | Blogs

The Data Privacy Detectives turns his data localization spotlight on the island nation of Singapore....

December 6, 2021 | Blogs

Our prior podcast episodes detailed how China, Russia, and to a lesser extent India have created bar...

November 9, 2021 | Blogs

We turn to Russia in our data localization series. Russia’s 2015 personal data protection law requ...

November 2, 2021 | Blogs

In this second podcast episode about data localization, we spotlight India. Since 1993 the world’s...

October 21, 2021 | Blogs

The internet and the worldwide web – the words envision a global communications system that transc...

September 30, 2021 | Blogs

Home is our private place. But in the digital age, how private are our homes? And what can we do to ...

September 1, 2021 | Blogs

Kentucky is perhaps the first state to adopt a comprehensive anti-doxing statute that creates a civi...

August 30, 2021 | Blogs

Mike Potter’s cat bounced on his keyboard years ago. His hard drive cratered, and he lost his data...

August 2, 2021 | Blogs

The state of Wyoming made headlines when its legislature approved a first-of-its-kind bill[1] that g...

July 28, 2021 | Blogs

Ransomware. It’s in the headlines. It’s digital organized crime across borders. When an organiza...

July 20, 2021 | Blogs

This article was originally published on July 19, 2021 in Westlaw Today, an imprint of Thomson Reut...

July 8, 2021 | Blogs

Ransomware attacks, data breaches, digital theft – on the rise. Who are the cyber-criminals? Can t...

July 1, 2021 | Blogs

On June 28, 2021, the Europe Union granted two adequacy decisions to the United Kingdom for personal...

June 2, 2021 | Publications

Industry analysts and business consultants have agreed for some time that connected mobility is the ...

May 18, 2021 | Publications

In today’s world of ever-expanding technology, the evolution of autonomous vehicles from theory, t...

May 14, 2021 | Blogs

In order to keep up with a changing world, each company must periodically assess how technological c...

May 10, 2021 | Blogs

This is a true story of a phone scam of May 2021. The Data Privacy Detective got a call on the home ...

May 3, 2021 | Blogs

This podcast episode explores ransomware from preventive, legal, and communications angles. While th...

April 22, 2021 | Publications

There is a growing trend in support of “right to repair” laws requiring manufacturers to make th...

April 9, 2021 | Blogs

On April 5, the U.S. Supreme Court found that Google’s copying of Oracle code was fair use, puttin...

April 2, 2021 | Blogs

Janus was the Roman god of doors, gates, and transitions. He needed two faces to look in both direct...

March 29, 2021 | Blogs

Kentucky has long been considered a national leader in the manufacturing industry given its low cost...

March 25, 2021 | Blogs

Facial recognition. It’s a hot topic. Targeting, misidentification, and doxing – the dangers...

March 18, 2021 | Blogs

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are becoming more prominent with applications across supply c...

March 15, 2021 | Publications

The automotive industry continues to evolve, especially in how intellectual property is developed an...

February 17, 2021 | Blogs

Challenges from Europe and America On February 16, 2021 TikTok was sued in Europe for abusing consum...

February 11, 2021 | Publications

Blockchain technology, best known as the distributed ledger platform that powers Bitcoin and other c...

January 28, 2021 | Blogs

Data theft set new records in 2020. The major causes are not failures of equipment, software, or ser...

January 12, 2021 | Blogs

Data theft set new records in 2020. The major causes are not failures of equipment, software, or ser...

January 8, 2021 | Publications

More than 5,300 companies in the United States used the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework for the tra...

January 5, 2021 | Blogs

As businesses move into 2021, what insurance can they have to limit cyber risk? What does cyber insu...

December 22, 2020 | Blogs

Taiwan is one of the “Four Asian Tiger” economies. Its companies hold 66% of the world’s semic...

December 21, 2020 | Blogs

How a community can responsibly gather, process and use personal information to meet its needs and m...

December 4, 2020 | Blogs

Respecting individual privacy while achieving reliable databases. We all value privacy – at least ...

November 9, 2020 | Blogs

With the passing of Proposition 24 in California, privacy rights are being amended again to close wh...

November 5, 2020 | Blogs

Ransomware – a sinister type of cyberattack that installs malware onto a computer system. Once...

October 26, 2020 | Blogs

Science and knowledge advance through information gathered, organized, and analyzed. It is only thro...

October 5, 2020 | Blogs

The current COVID-19 crisis has increased the importance of online services that provide access to h...

October 1, 2020 | Blogs

The Impact on Privacy From a Digital Healthcare Initiative COVID-19 has changed the world in dramati...

September 25, 2020 | Blogs

Brazil’s General Personal Data Protection Law or “LGPD” entered into force on September 18, 20...

September 1, 2020 | Blogs

Robo-calls, phishing, identity theft, ads we didn’t ask for – and worse. How does this happen? H...

August 20, 2020 | Blogs

A July 2020 Indian Government Report calls for regulation of Non-Personal Data. Most data privacy la...

August 7, 2020 | Blogs

Cloud computing offers a business the prospect of efficiency and savings by improving data storage c...

July 31, 2020 | Blogs

On June 30, 2020 China enacted a National Security Law applicable in Hong Kong. The UK and USA gover...

July 27, 2020 | Blogs

 Be Smart The pandemic has forced many more employees to work from home. While working remotel...

July 24, 2020 | Blogs

On July 22, 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) released Interpretative ...

July 24, 2020 | Blogs

Effective July 15, 2020, Kentucky statutorily empowered its first “Blockchain Technology Working G...

July 17, 2020 | Blogs

More than 5,300 companies in the United States using the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework for the tran...

July 6, 2020 | Blogs

Colombia made personal privacy a fundamental right in its 1991 Constitution. A 2008 law protected pe...

June 26, 2020 | Blogs

Every year approximately $600 billion, or 1% of the global gross domestic product, is lost through c...

June 4, 2020 | Blogs

On June 1, Attorney General Becerra submitted final proposed regulations to the California Consumer ...

June 3, 2020 | Blogs

A federal district court in In re: Capital One Customer Data Security Breach Litigation recently ...

May 21, 2020 | Blogs

Often seen as a region with a common language and similar cultural traditions, Latin America is, in ...

May 6, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team

In this unfamiliar time, innovative solutions are being rapidly developed in the technology industry...

May 4, 2020 | Blogs

Newly published federal rules will now give more power to consumers in controlling their personal he...

April 24, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team

There are several ways startups raise funding – one of the most prevalent is a convertible note. A...

March 26, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team

Embracing both patents and patented technology may advance the fight against COVID-19. In Italy, the...

March 23, 2020 | Blogs

As the coronavirus continues to quickly spread across the United States, employers are following CD...

March 12, 2020 | Publications

On March 11, California Attorney General Becerra, through the California Department of Justice, rele...

March 10, 2020 | Blogs

Customedia v. Dish is a simple looking case.  The patentee asserted claims for a computer implement...

March 9, 2020 | Blogs

Bankers in the fintech space are familiar with the FFIEC’s Guidance recommending multi-factor auth...

February 12, 2020 | Publications

Barely a month into the new year and nine states have already introduced their own version of compre...

February 10, 2020 | Blogs

On Friday, February 7, California Attorney General Becerra released proposed modifications to the dr...

January 31, 2020 | Blogs

The United Kingdom (UK) has formally withdrawn from the European Union (EU) effective January 31, 20...

January 7, 2020 | Blogs

Governmental officials and cyber security experts currently anticipate that Iran’s responses to re...

January 6, 2020 | Publications

Businesses have more than the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to worry about in 2020 when it ...

December 23, 2019 | Blogs

 California’s Consumer Privacy Act goes live on January 1, 2020. It forces businesses beyond...

November 18, 2019 | Blogs

 Medical data are considered particularly sensitive personal information. Laws and regulations in...

October 15, 2019 | Blogs

Frost Brown Todd member John Wagster was recently featured in an article by CoinTelegraph about bloc...

September 17, 2019 | Blogs

Friday, Sept. 13 was the last day for bills amending the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and ...

August 16, 2019 | Blogs

A federal court in California handed Delta Air Lines a win this year by dismissing a putative class ...

August 15, 2019 | Blogs

States across the U.S. are rapidly passing new consumer privacy laws. This is the second in an ongoi...

July 10, 2019 | Blogs

Substantive Expertise versus A New Perspective and Freedom from the Past Counsel are regularly and a...

July 8, 2019 | Blogs

As the scale of solar energy projects grows, the incorporation of advanced direct current (DC) monit...

July 5, 2019 | Blogs

Background Blockchain technology’s potential for disintermediation in the financial sphere has evo...

June 13, 2019 | Blogs

In Dept. of Labor v. McConnell, the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed that an individual could not pur...

May 14, 2019 | Blogs

As we roll into 2019’s peak travel season, automakers are hitting the gas on developing the necess...

May 13, 2019 | Blogs

The May 2-3, 2019 International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Conference featured lead...

April 30, 2019 | Blogs

Fifty years ago, auto manufacturing plants were filled with thousands of people on large assembly li...

April 30, 2019 | Blogs

Picture frontline employees – like those at a motel’s front desk. In enter ICE agents with gold ...

April 15, 2019 | Blogs

The practical effect of the GDPR in connection with domain name enforcement can leave (and should le...

April 11, 2019 | Blogs

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. Before then, covered...

March 7, 2019 | Blogs

Businesses that violate the CCPA can face civil penalties in actions brought by the California Attor...

March 4, 2019 | Blogs

The CCPA can apply to businesses located outside California that collect or sell personal informatio...

March 4, 2019 | Blogs

Data incidents arise regularly for businesses. The perpetrators range from sophisticated scoundrels ...

February 19, 2019 | Blogs

On December 28, 2018, the former Michigan Governor, Rick Snyder, signed into law House Bill 6941 (th...

January 4, 2019 | Blogs

The European Commission issued its second review of how the EU PrivacyShield is working in late Dece...

November 6, 2018 | Blogs

“The internet is growing less free around the world, and democracy itself is withering under its i...

October 1, 2018 | Blogs

In recent years, cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, and Kin, have brought a flur...

September 21, 2018 | Blogs

TL;DR: Drone services companies need to get their drone operators to sign intellectual property as...

September 5, 2018 | Blogs

Have you heard about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that recently passed and goes into...

August 9, 2018 | Blogs

On Friday, August 3, Governor Kasich signed Ohio Senate Bill 220, which acknowledges for the first t...

July 30, 2018 | Blogs

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),  effective as of May 25, 2018,  ...

July 26, 2018 | Blogs

When Congress enacted the Communications Decency Act of 1996, the internet was an infant. Prevaili...

July 9, 2018 | Blogs

“California passes strictest online privacy law in the country,” trumpeted CNN Tech on...

June 18, 2018 | Blogs

Businesses not located in the European Union have tried to understand whether the General Data Pro...

June 1, 2018 | Blogs

It’s June 1, 2018, one week after the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union bec...

May 16, 2018 | Blogs

GDPR, the European Union’s effort to protect personal data, has dominated the efforts of businesse...

April 26, 2018 | Blogs

In our prior podcast, the Data Privacy Detective explored how non-EU businesses can determine if t...

April 19, 2018 | Blogs

In this and the next podcast, the Data Privacy Detective turns a magnifying glass to how businesse...

April 18, 2018 | Blogs

On April 17, 2018, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman (the “NY AG”) launched...

April 17, 2018 | Blogs

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, becomes directly applicab...

April 10, 2018 | Blogs

The EU’s GDPR – the General Data Protection Regulation – becomes law on May 25, ...

April 9, 2018 | Blogs

In this fourth podcast about the General Data Protection Regulation that becomes law in the Europe...

April 2, 2018 | Blogs

Businesses collect, use and store personal data. It’s unavoidable. An email address, phone n...

March 29, 2018 | Blogs

The General Data Protection Regulation – the GDPR - becomes law throughout the European Unio...

March 26, 2018 | Blogs

On May 25, 2018 the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation becomes law – ...

December 18, 2017 | Blogs

SEC issues cease-and-desist order two days into the Munchee ICO, a sign the Commission is inchi...

December 11, 2017 | Blogs

This is the second article in a series on the legal issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI...

November 21, 2017 | Blogs

Full webinar about legal issues surrounding AI. This is the first article in a series on the l...

August 25, 2017 | Blogs

In this podcast, the Data Privacy Detective talks about tech support scams with Michael Severini, ...

August 9, 2017 | Blogs

IoT – the Internet of Things – is the interconnection of physical objects and data. Sm...

August 3, 2017 | Blogs

Phishing is an effort by cybercriminals to use bait in the guise of a familiar email address to ho...

July 28, 2017 | Blogs

On July 25, 2017, the FBI issued a TLP:AMBER alert on its Cyber Watch system about an elaborate cy...

May 4, 2017 | Blogs

The practice of law is going to look very different 15 years from now. The most routine legal work...

December 1, 2016 | Blogs

The Data Privacy Detective met with Ken Morris, lawyer, technologist and founder of KnectIQ, to di...

November 28, 2016 | Blogs

In late October 2016, the Data Privacy Detective met with Joe Tomain, a visiting lecturer at India...

November 22, 2016 | Blogs

An Excerpt from when the Data Privacy Detective sat down with Julia Montgomery to discuss data pro...

November 4, 2016 | Blogs

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are garnering substantial attention as investors hope their digital ...

October 17, 2016 | Blogs

I attend conferences of our international law firm network MULTILAW. It’s a gathering of law...

October 13, 2016 | Blogs

It seems like everyone is discussing “blockchain,” but few have taken the time to real...

October 10, 2016 | Blogs

The word “computer” was once an occupational classification. Computers were workers wh...

October 9, 2016 | Blogs

I spoke about America’s approach to data privacy at a recent Conference at the European Cour...

October 7, 2016 | Blogs

Privacy is dead, get over it. This is what a blockchain entrepreneur told a Conference at the Euro...