Timothy J. Muris Joins Sidley in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. – Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Timothy J. Muris has joined the firm as senior counsel in its Antitrust/Competition practice. Mr. Muris, a former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has substantial experience in every aspect of antitrust enforcement as well as in key consumer protection issues, including advertising, consumer finance and privacy regulation.
SURVEY TO BENCHMARK CYBERSECURITY COMPLIANCE
Cybersecurity compliance is becoming increasingly complicated with multiple regulators across the globe weighing in on your legal requirements to manage cyber risk. If you have wondered how others are approaching their compliance strategy, you are not alone.
You are invited to participate in a brief survey regarding your business’s approach to cybersecurity legal requirements. Specifically, the purpose of this survey is to learn how businesses like yours are responding to cybersecurity legal requirements under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Network and Information Security Directive (NIS Directive). In particular, we are interested in whether and if so, how businesses in the U.S. and the EU and elsewhere are applying the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity to comply with these EU cybersecurity requirements. Understanding which standards business are applying in order to comply with these requirements could be helpful in encouraging consistency of cybersecurity frameworks in the U.S., the EU and other regions.
Please use the link provided below to access the survey which will take very few minutes to complete. We plan to publish the results in approximately six weeks. Please note that no individuals or specific businesses will be identified in any published results without their express consent.
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The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review
The third edition of The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review appears as the world is converging on more privacy laws that cover more areas of business and are subject to more enforcement. Several Sidley lawyers in the Privacy, Data Security and Information Law practice have contributed to this publication.
Sidley’s Privacy, Data Security and Information Law Practice Welcomes Dean Forbes
Sidley is pleased to announce that Dean Forbes has joined the firm’s Privacy, Data Security and Information Law practice. Dean will advise clients on legal matters related to privacy, security, and personal data governance and use.
Privacy Shield: Essentially Equivalent
With the final Privacy Shield decision, the European Commission and United States Government have concluded several years of discussion and negotiation concerning the Safe Harbour framework and the new Privacy Shield. The effort and thought by negotiators, EU institutions, and stakeholders alike to reach this point reflect the importance of private life and data protection in EU society and the significance of data flows to transatlantic commerce and discourse. Sidley Senior Counsel Cam Kerry and Sidley Partner Maarten Meulenbelt discuss how the Privacy Shield meets the requirements of EU law and answer criticisms in Privacy Shield: Essentially Equivalent. For more, click here.
Lexology Navigator publishes Data Security & Cybercrime in the USA by Sidley Austin LLP
Globe Business Media Group has published a Lexology Navigator on Data Security and Cybercrime in the USA by Sidley Austin LLP. Colleen Brown, Ed McNicholas, Alan Raul and Anna Spencer contributed to the reference guide, which also lets you compare jurisdictions on various legal topics, such as data protection, from leading practitioners in the area.
Privacy Shield and the General Data Protection Regulation: More Key Developments
Developments on the European data protection front continue at a fast pace. As the process of implementation of the now-final General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) begins, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) is announcing a workshop on implementation questions in Brussels in July. Meanwhile, uncertainty continues for trans-Atlantic data transfers as both the European Parliament and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) weigh in with views for negotiators on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, and the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) announces the intention to initiate proceedings in the Irish High Court that may put before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) the validity of EU standard contractual clauses (or model contracts). (more…)
Sidley’s 2nd Annual Privacy and Cybersecurity Roundtable Provides Cross-Industry Insights from Senior Government Officials
Senior legal, economic and privacy leadership from U.S. and European government joined Sidley partners and senior counsel as panel participants at the 2nd Annual Privacy and Cybersecurity Roundtable. An audience of more than 70 privacy professionals across financial, healthcare and technology industries heard from three panels that focused on the latest developments and prospective issues in cybersecurity, big data and EU privacy.
European commission Publishes Privacy Shield Documents – Webinar Recording
On February 29, 2016, the European Commission released the legal texts that will implement the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, as well as a communication summarizing the actions taken over the last few years to “restore trust in transatlantic data flows since the 2013 surveillance revelations.”
The documents include a draft adequacy decision, the Privacy Shield principles that companies will have to abide by, as well as written commitments by the U.S. government, to be published in the U.S. Federal Register, on the enforcement of the arrangement, including assurance on the safeguards and limitations concerning access to data by public authorities. On March 2, 2016, Sidley and DataGuidance presented a live webinar to investigate the latest details of the agreement featuring Sidley partners William Long, who advises on European privacy law, Maarten Meulenbelt, who advises on EU regulatory affairs, Alan Charles Raul, co-leader and founder of Sidley’s Privacy, Data Security and Information Law practice, and Cameron Kerry, Senior Counsel and former General Counsel and Acting Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce.
Privacy Shield_ More Details Released from Cecile Park Conferences on Vimeo.
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield | What Next? – Webinar Recording
On February 2, 2016, the European Commission announced that an agreement had been reached regarding a new framework for the transfer of data to the U.S.: the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. According to Vice-President of the European Commission, Andrus Ansip, and Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Věra Jourová, who made the announcement, the new arrangement reflects the requirements set out by the Court of Justice of the European Union in Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner (C-362-14), and is due to come into force within three months. On February 5, Sidley and DataGuidance presented a live webinar to investigate the new agreement featuring Sidley partners William Long, who advises on European privacy law, Maarten Meulenbelt, who advises on EU regulatory affairs, and Alan Charles Raul, co-leader and founder of Sidley’s Privacy, Data Security and Information Law practice.