Medical device companies with ties to China should prioritize compliance with DOJ’s new Data Security Program, attorneys at Hogan Lovells said Tuesday (see 2504140047).
DOJ’s data transfer rule might require a “deeper analysis on vendors and third parties” than expected, attorneys at Baker McKenzie said Monday in an opinion piece for the IAPP.
Expect updated compliance guidance throughout the year from DOJ on its data transfer rule, Paul Hastings attorneys said Thursday.
Comments are due June 13 on a draft update to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s privacy framework, the agency said Monday.
Expect an independent third-party assessment of a cyber incident, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency officially announced this week.
Life sciences companies should assess whether DOJ’s data transfer rule applies to their data-handling activity, attorneys at Cooley said in a post Thursday (see 2504020022).
Tech associations are continuing to push DOJ to extend the April 8 effective date for its data transfer rule (see 2504020022).
Cross-border data and technology transfers are subject to President Donald Trump’s “America First” executive order, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday.
The Department of Homeland Security is terminating its data privacy, AI and cyber advisory boards in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump, DHS announced Wednesday.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are likely the key votes as the U.S. Supreme Court considers Humphrey’s Executor, the 1935 decision that allows Congress to limit a president’s ability to remove senior officials, TechFreedom Internet Policy Counsel Corbin Barthold wrote Tuesday in The Bulwark. “For as long as modern conservative legal thought has existed, there has been a campaign to overturn Humphrey’s Executor,” Barthold wrote. “The decision, which sustained a provision that insulated the five leaders of the [FTC] from being removed without cause, became the foundation for so-called independent agencies,” but it’s not “a strong decision,” he said. President Franklin Roosevelt saw it as “an effort to rebuke him” by a then-conservative SCOTUS, and “modern legal scholars tend to agree.”