Potentially signaling the end of the short-lived stint by the Federal Communication Commission ("FCC") to regulate consumer data privacy on the internet...

On January 10, 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") released a proposed update to its popular cybersecurity blueprint for organizations and businesses...

Title I of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, referred to as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act ("CISA"), created a framework to facilitate the sharing of information on cybersecurity threats...

Public comments on the proposed regulations may be submitted through August 8, 2016. If approved, the proposed regulations will become effective twelve months after they are published as final in the Federal Register.

The District Court dismissed the complaint on standing grounds, holding that the plaintiff had not sufficiently pled an injury-in-fact as required by Article III of the United States Constitution.

On December 17, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission announced that LifeLock, Inc. had agreed to settle contempt charges that the company violated the terms of a 2010 federal court order.

Companies and regulators have been waiting since 2012 on the outcome of one cybersecurity-related court case: Federal Trade Commission (FTC) v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

On December 31, 2015, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") issued regulations implementing Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015...

On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed into law a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that contained the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (the "Act"), a compromise bill based on competing cybersecurity information sharing bills that passed the House and Senate earlier this year.

On December 4, 2015, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar.

On January 12, 2015, President Obama proposed the Personal Data Notification & Protection Act, which would create a federal standard for data breach notification.

On April 10, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") issued an Antitrust Policy Statement on Sharing of Cybersecurity Information explaining that competitors can share legitimate threat information so long as appropriate safeguards are in place to limit the exchange of competitively-sensitive information.

On April 7, 2014, Judge Esther Salas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey denied the first ever motion to dismiss filed in Federal court that challenged the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to regulate corporate data security practices under section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act.

The most recently released annual report by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States highlights a sharp increase in abandoned deals involving foreign acquisitions of U.S. businesses.

Prosecutors, in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, consider a host of factors when determining whether to pursue criminal charges against individuals, corporations, and financial institutions.