Privacy & Cybersecurity

In a recently-released Form 8-K filing announcing fourth quarter and year-end financial results, Target Corporation reported that expenses incurred in 2014 relating to its 2013 data breach totaled over $191 million.

Google made good on the rumors and the company’s subsequent promise last December to create a family-friendly version of its popular YouTube service with its launch on Monday of the YouTube Kids app.

It's another Privacy Monday!
Privacy in the Workplace Webinar

President Obama's February 13 Executive Order, "Promoting Private Sector Cybersecurity Information Sharing" (the "EO"), turns out to be light on new measures to improve cybersecurity, but focused heavily on adjustments to prior Executive Orders implementing the rules for handling classified information. 

The Mintz Levin Privacy & Data Security Team invites you to register and join us at two upcoming events:

Eager to retain its spot among the principal laboratories for domestic privacy legislation, California’s legislature is set to debate Senate Bill 178, legislation restricting state law enforcement agencies from requesting data without a warrant.

The New York State Department of Financial Services (the “Department”) recently released a “Report on Cyber Security in the Insurance Sector” (the “Report”). The Report was released on February 8, 2015,  just four days after Anthem first reported the breach of its database estimated to contain as many as 80 million customer records.

Registration is open for the next installment in the Mintz Levin Privacy & Security Group Wednesday Webinar series --

By now (unless you have been under a snow drift), you have likely heard about the apparent intrusion into a database at the nation's largest health insurer, Anthem, Inc.  Rather than reiterate the facts as currently known (see Anthem's dedicated website for updates), we'll look at the fallout and what's next.

When small and mid-size companies start expanding their apps or web presence into Europe, they need to start thinking about EU data protection laws. It’s tempting to take a look at what one or two of the “big guys” do about EU data protection compliance and think that whatever  the big guys do in Europe must be good enough. 

Don't forget our webinar (rescheduled due to the Blizzard of 2015) on tips to prepare for (and survive) the HIPAA audits that are coming ..

Happy Groundhog Day! While we were recovering from last night's heart-attack Super Bowl 2015,  Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning .... predicting 6 more weeks of winter, for an already winter-weary US. #sixmoreweeksofwinter

Last week the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed, with prejudice, class action claims against Google and Viacom concerning targeted advertising and the online tracking of children through cookies. 

Today is Data Privacy Day, and as you might expect, we have a few bits and bytes for you.

Blizzards can affect even "virtual" events -- tomorrow's "How to Survive a HIPAA Audit" webinar has been rescheduled to February 4th.

Good Monday - The East Coast prepares for Apocalypse (Sn)ow.
In the meantime, here are three privacy-related tidbits for your day.

As expected in his State of the Union address last night, President Obama made it very clear that cybersecurity is on his agenda for 2015.

We are pleased to announce important additions to Mintz that clearly strengthen the Privacy & Security Group's bench.

Celebrate Data Privacy Day! On Wednesday January 28th, Mintz Levin's Dianne Bourque, will be presenting a webinar on how to survive a HIPAA audit. 

This has been a big week for cybersecurity announcements from Washington.   In what the White House has called a series of "SOTU Spoilers," President Obama announced his intention to follow through on some of the recommendations in his administration's Big Data report -- the culmination of the White House's 90-day "Big Data" review in 2014.