On August 5, 2019, Marriott International announced that it had taken a $126 million charge in the second quarter, primarily as a result of the data breach it announced in 2018. Coincidentally, on July 9, 2019, The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation…
Complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act in 5 (more or less) Not So Easy Steps Part 3 of a Series The Privacy Policy This is the third in a series of articles on complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA is estimated to directly impact more…
Public Service Announcement: Social media use increases your cybersecurity exposure. Share appropriately. If that were all it took. In my earlier post, I described how casual use of social media (that is, failure to take into account its impact on privacy and security) can put your company’s information security profile…
Complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act in 5 (more or less) Not So Easy Steps Part 2 of a Series What’s Next – the Breach Response Plan This is the second in a series of articles on complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA is estimated…
It is difficult to overstate the current backlash against social media. Social media giants are under attack from virtually all sources, including both governments and individuals. The #humblebrag du jour is a social media addict publically stating the intent to close accounts, take social media sabbaticals, cull friend and follower…
Looking back with the perspective of two years, the Equifax data breach still has many lessons to teach us. Unfortunately, some of the most important lessons are masked by the extremes of the errors that characterized the original breach, which include insider trading by top executives after the breach was…
Complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act in 5 (more or less) Not So Easy Steps Part 1 of a Series First Steps First – the Data Map It is estimated that more than 500,000 companies are subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), many of them smaller and…
By Michael Gold and Bob Braun A new ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court could trigger expensive class action lawsuits and private litigation against businesses, even where plaintiffs do not allege actual injury. The case demands attention, not only from those doing business in Illinois, but throughout the nation. The…
In their column, Top 10 cybersecurity predictions for the new year, Robert Braun and Michael Gold, co-chairs of JMBM’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Group offer predictions on federal privacy legislation (they won’t pass any and if by chance they do, it won’t work), data localization (more companies will have to decide…
Written prior to Marriott International’s announcement on November 30, 2018 that a data breach exposed the private data of up to 500 million guests, Robert Braun, co-chair of JMBM’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Group, wrote the article Guest Privacy – It’s Your Business, published by HotelExecutive.com on December 2, 2018. In…