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Updata: Your Quarterly Privacy & Cybersecurity Update – April – June 2023
Welcome to the latest edition of Updata – the international update from Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team. Updata provides you with a compilation of privacy and cybersecurity regulatory and legal developments from our contributors around the globe over the past quarter. Please see full Newsletter below for more information….By: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
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Texas Patent Litigation Monthly Wrap-Up: June 2023
Apax Beam Technologies LLC v. ZTE Corporation, No. 2:22-CV-000310JRG-RSP (E.D. Tex. Jun. 14, 2023) Defendants’ Motion to Stay Pending Inter Partes Review – Defendants Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. moved to stay this lawsuit pending inter partes review. The Court found that the PTAB’s institution decisions were not due for at…
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Washington AG’s Office Releases New Guidance for the My Health My Data Act
On June 30, 2023, the Washington Attorney General (AG) published a series of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) related to the My Health My Data Act (MHMDA). As we discussed previously, the MHMDA will impose new requirements on entities involved in collecting, processing, sharing, or selling consumer health data belonging to Washington residents beginning as early…
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The Vitality Group Provides Notice of MOVEit Data Breach on Behalf of GuidePoint Security
This week, the Vitality Group (“Vitality”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Massachusetts on behalf of GuidePoint Security after discovering that a file transfer software used by Vitality contained a critical vulnerability. As a result of this vulnerability, an unauthorized party was able to access certain GuidePoint Security employees’ sensitive…
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Sovos Compliance Notifies 18k+ Individuals that MOVEit Data Breach Leaked Their SSNs
On July 12, 2023, Sovos Compliance LLC filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine after discovering that MOVEit, a file transfer software used by Sovos, contained a critical vulnerability allowing an unauthorized party to download confidential consumer data provided to Sovos. In this notice, Sovos explains that the incident resulted…
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Russia-Ukraine War News: Putin Seeks to Project Control Amid Military Turmoil
Three weeks after a mutiny by Wagner mercenaries, the Russian leader says he suggested that the group’s chief be sidelined and that its members fight under a different commander.
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Ruined, Empty, Mined and Overgrown: Ukraine’s Forgotten Villages
Settlements along Ukraine’s eastern steppe were reduced to wreckage as the war passed through them. Now choked with weeds and with few residents, they are at risk of disappearing.
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Alcohol Poisonings Rise in Iran as Bootleggers Defy Ban
Iran’s prohibition of the drinking and selling of alcohol has led to a flourishing underground market. But even officials have acknowledged a wave of hospitalizations and deaths in recent months.
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‘10 Seconds’: Outrage Follows Acquittal in Italy Abuse Case
A court in Rome said it had decided to acquit a janitor accused of improperly touching a student in part because the episode lasted “a handful of seconds” and took place in a public area in front of other students.
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New Heat Wave Descends on Europe, as It Struggles to Adapt
European governments have been slow to put in place broader mitigation strategies for extreme heat, allowing deaths to increase. This year may be no different.
