Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Blog Posts From October 2017

• Blog: GDPR, Part I: History of European Data Protection Law
  Date: October 26, 2017 Title: GDPR, Part I: History of European Data Protection Law
  Summary: In today’s global marketplace, organizations must comply with an increasingly complicated set of international laws and regulations. This article is the first in a seven-part series which seeks to explain, in plain English, the critical compliance requirements of the European Union’s forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)....
• Blog: State of the (State) Data Breach Laws: 2017 Legislative Update, Part III
  Date: October 24, 2017 Title: State of the (State) Data Breach Laws: 2017 Legislative Update, Part III
  Summary: With 2017 nearing its end, the legislative activity in most state capitals has wound down and the majority of legislatures have ended their 2017 sessions. In Part I and Part II of our series, we looked at how a number of states amended or enacted data breach notification-related legislation (Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, and Tennessee)....
• Blog: State of the (State) Data Breach Laws: 2017 Legislative Update, Part II
  Date: October 12, 2017 Title: State of the (State) Data Breach Laws: 2017 Legislative Update, Part II
  Summary: As we noted in Part I of our series, state legislatures across the country continued to refine and reshape their respective data breach notification requirements during the 2017 legislative session. While a handful of states were successful in passing new data breach notification legislation, some of those states significantly revised just when, how, and under what circumstances an entity has to notify affected consumers of a data breach....