Privacy

Cybersecurity

Paul A. Ferrillo | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

The number, severity, and sophistication of cyber attacks – whether on our retail economy, our healthcare sector, our educational sector or, in fact, our government and defense systems – grows worse by the day.[1] Among the most notable cyber breaches in the public company sphere...

Telecommunications

John J. Heitmann, Steven A. Augustino, Jameson J. Dempsey | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

The Federal Communications Commission (the “Commission” or “FCC”) seems to be opening the spigot a bit on its extensive backlog of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions. Congress enacted the TCPA in 1991 to protect consumers from unwanted calls...

Healthcare

Kevin D. Lyles, Katherine S. Ritchey | Jones Day

According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, 864,133,052 records containing sensitive personal information have been breached in 4,249 publicly reported incidents since 2005.[1] Recent high-profile data breaches hit a huge number of consumers and demonstrated the vulnerability and ubiquity...