Member Sandy Garfinkel, co-chair of McNees’ privacy and data security group, was quoted in a Law360 article discussing the February cyberattack on Pennsylvania courts’ website and the recent uptick in denial-of-service attacks, The article, “Pa. Courts’ Site Mostly Back Online Amid ‘Battle’ With Hackers,” discusses the attack with comments by Garfinkel about cybersecurity defenses still lacking behind hacking methods used by attackers.
A serial pro se litigant, Vivek Shah, has sent demand letters threatening litigation to thousands of businesses across the country, alleging violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). If your business has received one of these letters, here is what you need to know. Key takeaways: Understanding CIPA and the demand letters In […]
Data privacy and security attorney Kayla Bushey presented on an IAPP panel discussion on August 4, exploring the risks and uncertainties of U.S. data privacy litigation. She was joined by William Simpson of IAPP and Matt Pearson of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC, where they discussed private litigation trends in the data privacy realm, […]
The following guidance addresses a matter of increasing importance to school entities across Pennsylvania. Artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and similar generative AI platforms have become increasingly common in both legal and business settings, and we understand the appeal of using them to quickly research issues, draft documents, or think […]
In early May, thousands of K-12 schools, colleges, and universities were disrupted when Canvas, a leading edtech software program, went offline during one of the busiest times of the academic year. The digital blackout was the result of a cyberattack. Instructure, Canvas’s parent company, soon after paid an undisclosed (but presumably substantial) amount to a […]
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