My Yearly Look Back, A Look Forward And A Warning
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, January 9th, 2024
2023 saw cybersecurity and privacy law arrive at a crossroads, especially with regard to the regulatory landscape.
This is the time of year when it is traditional to look back at the past year and extrapolate forward to make predictions for the year ahead. In the areas of data privacy law and regulation and cybersecurity law and regulation, the focus seems to be on low-hanging fruit.
In privacy, data breach notification laws have long taken the place of actual civil liability for failure to protect privacy, and courts continue to hold that victims of data breach often suffer no 'actual harm' when their personal information is exposed publicly.