Comprehensive data protection laws exist around the world, and more are expected to come into play. While each law is different, there are many common threads around rights, obligations and enforcement provisions. The IAPP Westin Research Center recently updated its chart mapping several comprehensi...

Stanford Cyber Policy Center Senior Policy Advisor Jim Dempsey has long thought about the cybersecurity space and how it matches up to privacy and data protection. His deep thinking on the matter led him to publish a new book with the IAPP called "Cybersecurity Law Fundamentals." IAPP Editorial Dire...

The European Data Protection Board adopted letters addressed to the United Nations and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity on separate data protection matters. With the UN, the EDPB said it would potentially consider guidance pertaining to international data transfers to UN System Organisati...

Apple filed a lawsuit against NSO Group accusing the Israeli technology firm of surveilling and targeting its users through its “Pegasus” software. Apple is also seeking a permanent injunction banning NSO Group from using its software, services or devices “to prevent further abuse and harm to its us...

Cybersecurity is inextricably connected to privacy in countless ways. Like privacy law and regulation in the U.S., cybersecurity stands on a patchwork quilt of rules, laws, regulations and court cases. Stanford Cyber Policy Center Senior Policy Advisor Jim Dempsey has been teaching cybersecurity law...