By Karin M.McGinnis and Lauren Clemmons What’s Blowing Your Mind (WBYM) right now in privacy, data security, or AI? We asked ourselves—and our colleagues in the field—the same question. The result? Kicking off the NCBA PDS Section’s “What’s Blowing Your Mind” series, which is meant to spark conversation around the thorny, timely, and occasionally mind-bending challenges […]
By Lauren M. Clemmons Upcoming Fireside Chat Have you asked yourself how you could better balance the workload among your team members? Enhance your team’s collaborative environment? Nurture your team members and utilize their skills to best meet the client’s objectives? And, speaking of IoT, what are ways that teams work together to ensure compliance […]
By Eva Lorenz Introduction Now that the situation at the pump seems to have recovered and returned to normal, it is time to figure out what actually happened in the Colonial pipeline attack and what lessons, if any, we can learn from yet another high profile cyberattack involving ransomware. First, a few introductory words and […]
By Erin Illman Greetings Privacy and Data Security Section members, and welcome to the 2020-2021 bar year! It is my honor and privilege to serve as Chair this year, and I am looking forward to working with an amazing and highly invested group of council members, committee co-chairs, and NCBA staff. I’m also very excited […]
By Rachel LaBruyere Over the past few weeks, parents all over the country let out a collective sigh of relief when the school year ended. They could relinquish their new duties as at-home [insert subject here] teacher. Meanwhile, college and graduate students sat for final exams remotely, shifted to pass/fail grading rubrics, and mourned lost […]
By Jaren Butts and Nickeyea Wilkinson Thanks to social distancing mandates, teleconference platforms have experienced a huge surge in site traffic as new users around the world participate in telehealth, telework, and many other teleservices that have now been transitioned online.[1] As virtual capabilities become more important to our daily lives than ever before, now […]
By Sheila Spence and Nickeyea Wilkinson On March 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized two rules (now released for publication in the Federal Register, as of April 21, 2020) intended to give patients additional access to their health data. The rules, issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]
By Eva Lorenz Ransomware has been an ongoing threat to law firms for years.[1] Once impacted by this form of attack, law firms struggle with issues such as how to pay ransom, which often requires some form of cryptocurrency (e.g., bitcoin). Alternately, if the firm elects not to pay the ransom, the issue becomes how […]
By Michele Livingstone and Will Quick We are in unprecedented times with COVID-19 (Coronavirus). It is now more important than ever that we help our neighbors and those who are not as fortunate. I am confident that each of you is doing your part. Even in the best of times, however, over 1.5 Million North […]
By Alex Pearce Greetings Privacy and Data Security Section members! It’s hard to believe we’re more than halfway through our inaugural year as a Section. Following the Section Council’s February meeting, I wanted to provide an update on the Section’s activities and highlight some opportunities for members to get involved in the Section’s work. Annual […]