Privacy

Cybersecurity

Alice Hsu, Tracy Crum, Francine E. Friedman, Karol A. Kepchar | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

As discussed in Akin Gump’s annual “Top Ten Topics for Directors in 2014,” cybersecurity and data privacy are indeed among the hottest topics in the boardroom this year due to the dramatic rise in cyber attacks and data breaches. As part of a board’s risk management...

Cybersecurity

J.C. Boggs, Alexander K. Haas, John A. Drennan | King & Spalding LLP

On January 1, 2014, S.B. 46 became effective, extending California’s data breach notification requirements to a new area: individual online user accounts. Companies should take note of this significant development. It is a substantial enlargement of the notification burdens that many...

Healthcare

Luis J. Diaz, David N. Crapo | Gibbons P.C.

The best-known provision of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (“HITECH”) was the amendment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 to provide for the promulgation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human...