Publications

In its guidance for recipients of payments from the Provider Relief Fund published on September 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) provided more detail on recipients’ obligations for reporting on health care related expenses and lost revenues attributable to COVID-19. The most significant change in […]

In the third episode of Baird Holm Banter, Jon Blumenthal talks with Bob Kardell about cybersecurity issues businesses, nonprofits and governmental agencies are facing during the pandemic. Listen here.

After several months of uncertainty, Brazil’s new data protection law, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (“LGPD”) took effect on September 18, 2020.  The LGPD was slated to take effect in February 2020, but was postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic.  The Brazilian government then postponed the LGPD to […]

Last month, the California Legislature passed AB-1281, a bill that amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to extend two important CCPA exemptions beyond their current January 1, 2021 expiration date – employment-related information and personal information collected in the context of business-to-business (“B2B”) transactions.  The employment-related exemption applies to (1) […]

On August 5, 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a record $80 MM USD civil penalty against Capital One for the cyber breach it suffered in 2019.  Capital One suffered a breach when the information harvested from their server was posted on GitHub.  Due to […]