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White Paper: Implications of US laws on collection, storage, and use of biometric information

The use of biometric technology in everyday life has increased dramatically over the last few years. As a result, private entities are collecting, using, and storing biometric information from employees and consumers more than ever before. Unfortunately, the legal landscape for the private use of biometrics in the United States is unsettled. In this comprehensive white paper, we...

Your quarterly privacy & cybersecurity update

Welcome to the eighth edition of Updata! Updata is an international report produced by Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team – it provides you with a compilation of key privacy and cybersecurity regulatory and legal developments from the past quarter. This edition covers April to June 2020 and is full of newsworthy items from our team members around the globe,...

Accessibility—The hidden A in the CCPA

In the scramble to come into compliance before the January 1, 2020, deadline, companies may have overlooked a key—and potentially costly—requirement in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Under the draft regulations to the CCPA, businesses are required to ensure that their internal and external notice and privacy policies are reasonably accessible to individuals with...

US Cybersecurity and Data Privacy review and update: Looking back on 2019 and planning ahead for 2020

The reality of cybersecurity and data privacy threats and regulations proved a sobering one for many companies in 2019. The cost of data privacy began to hit home in January, with French regulators imposing a record fine for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations, and with subsequent global data privacy fines increasing in amount and frequency throughout the year. As the...

The state of US data privacy and cybersecurity laws in 2019

US data privacy and cybersecurity laws developed rapidly in 2019, especially in California, New York, Nevada and Massachusetts. While there are ongoing efforts to pass a federal privacy law, states are leading the way. Learn more.

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