By Frank Ready | January 22, 2021
New York's proposed Biometric Privacy Act echoes many of the requirements and guidelines laid out in Illinois' own longstanding regulation. But New York's status as a major U.S. economic hub could give its biometric law a much wider footprint that establishes an unofficial national standard.
By Frank Ready | January 20, 2021
A new Hogan Lovells report shows that in-house legal teams and privacy professionals are still being kept at arm's length from key decisions around how businesses select and implement technology. The result could be accentuated legal risk toward breaches or even software bias.
By Frank Ready | January 7, 2021
While many companies may feel confident in their handling of the CCPA, there are still a variety of privacy-related challenges on the horizon for 2021. Chief among them could be a renewed potential for a U.S. federal privacy regulation as well as a shortage of qualified privacy talent on the market.
By Frank Ready | December 17, 2020
The EU, Brazil, Japan and other jurisdictions have enacted sweeping privacy regulations as companies look to gain compliance synchronicity. But panelists on a Perkins Coie and FTI Consulting webinar say a private right of action and other particulars may keep a U.S. federal law years from becoming a reality.
By Frank Ready | December 9, 2020
Earlier this week Benjamin Moore said it planned to outsource all of its in-house legal work to outside providers. But other businesses mulling a similar arrangement may quickly find that cost savings or not, managing those providers will still require an investment of company time and resources.
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By Jonathan Bick | November 24, 2020
Despite COVID-19 pandemic disruptions, entities with shareholders must timely execute both director and shareholder meetings. Holding these meetings via the internet may mitigate health concerns, however, doing so raises the issue of cybersecurity.
By Frank Ready | November 13, 2020
Corporate legal departments have often relied on outside counsel to help navigate an increasingly complicated landscape of global privacy laws. But as updates like California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 continue to roll in, companies may find it more cost effective to engage the services of contract workers or even long-term hires.
By Frank Ready | November 5, 2020
Corporate legal departments have spent the last several months working remotely out of necessity. But there could be great value—and great risk—in keeping the arrangement going long-term.
By Frank Ready | October 28, 2020
A panel held during Wednesday's Women, Influence & Power in Law Virtual Summit examined the exhaustive levels of detail required for legal departments to truly be proactive about data protection, from fine-tuning language in vendor agreements to the way duties are assigned within the company itself.
By Frank Ready | October 22, 2020
While funneling all requests for outside counsel assistance through a GC or other legal department leadership can help eliminate unnecessary invoices, it may also lay the seeds for an institutional knowledge crisis somewhere down the line.
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