Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner vetoed a bill amending the state’s data breach notification law on August 21, 2015, saying in a letter to the General Assembly that the bill “goes too far, imposing duplicative and burdensome requirements that are out-of-step with other states.” The bill, S.B. 1833, would have amended Illinois’ Personal Information Protection Act […]
Alston & Bird Privacy Attorneys Named to The Best Lawyers in America 2016 List
Jim Harvey, David Keating, and Dominique Shelton, partners in Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Group, have been named to the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey in which more than 50,000 leading attorneys cast more than 5.5 million votes […]
Dominique Shelton Named to “Most Influential Lawyers in White Collar & Cyber Crimes Law” by LA Business Journal
Dominique Shelton, partner in Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Group, was named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Most Influential Lawyers in White Collar & Cyber Crimes Law” of 2015. Described by the publication as “one of the top practitioners dealing with privacy and cyber law, with particular focus on the media and […]
Swire on the Declining Half-Life of Secrets
On Friday, Peter Swire released his new paper titled “The Declining Half-Life of Secrets.” In this paper, Swire examines the challenges faced by the national security and signals intelligence communities in maintaining secrets. Swire’s paper explains why intelligence operations will continue to face ‘leaks’ given the pervasiveness and power of modern computing and the internet, […]
Amended Washington Data Breach Law Requires Attorney General Notification, Imposes 45-Day Notice Time Limit
Earlier this year, Washington passed an amended version of its data breach notification law, which goes into effect Friday July 24, 2015. Washington’s updated breach notification statute will now, among other things, require compromised entities to notify the state Attorney General (AG) in some circumstances, and require notification to both consumers and, as applicable, the […]