Amazon Receives Largest Ever GDPR Penalty

The Luxembourg Data Protection Authority (the “Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données” or “CNPD”) has issued the largest GDPR financial penalty to date against Amazon.com Inc. Amazon disclosed the $888 Million fine in a July 29, 2021 regulatory filing. Prior to this ruling, the largest GDPR penalty was against Google in the amount of…

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Proposed HIPAA Privacy Rule Amendments

February 19, 2021

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on…

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Update on Patentability of Digital Designs

January 8, 2021

On December 21, 2020, the USPTO issued a request for comments on whether its interpretation of the…

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Thoughts on Cloud Service Agreements

By Aaron Brooks | Aug 15, 2020

The terms “cloud computing” and “cloud storage” are generally used to describe any system of managing or storing data that is not dependent upon a single device or computer. “Cloud computing” usually means that the data can be accessed over the Internet, and frequently means that the data is stored on a server that is…

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