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Artificial Intelligence Systems, Profiling, and the New U.S. State Privacy Laws
Learn how privacy laws affect the use of AI
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Data Breach Checklist
A trending sample checklist
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AI — Cybersecurity Solution or Threat?
Learn 5 tips for leveraging technology
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ACC Legal Operations Privacy Capability Maturity Model
Benchmark your organization's privacy program
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Cybersecurity Basics for In-house Counsel
Learn cyber basics for in-house
 

2024 ACC Chief Legal Officers Survey

Privacy and cybersecurity issues keep CLOs up at night. Learn more about this and other survey insights

 

Check out the ACC-Ethisphere Data Privacy Program Assessment Tool

Assess the maturity of your organization's data privacy practices.

Purchase your access to the tool on the website of Ethisphere. 

Learn more about the tool by watching a demo.   

Education and Events

Register for the 2024 ACC Annual Meeting (October 6-9, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)!

Also view:

  1. Up & Coming Employment Privacy Topics: Staying out of the Crosshairs (May 2, 2024, on demand, free for ACC members)
  2. Cybersecurity Updates for US Defense Contractors (2024, on demand)
  3. Data Breach - A "First Response" Legal Playbook (January 24, 2024, on demand, free for ACC members)
  4. What the EU-US Data Privacy Framework Means for You (January 17, 2024, on demand, free for ACC members)
  5. Creating a Data Retention Policy for Privacy that Avoids Conflicts (October 23, 2023, for purchase)
  6. Cyber-attacks and the Associated Risks to Personal Data are a Risking and Alarming Trend. How Can an In-house Counsel Protect the Organization From This? (Europe) (April 18, 2023, on demand, free for ACC members)

Sample Forms and Checklists

  1. Sample Company Data Privacy and Protection Policy
  2. Sample Data Incident or Breach Notification Policy
  3. Checklist: Ransomware Attacks: Prevention and Preparedness (US)
  4. Privacy Data Breach Response Policy
  5. Privacy/Security Due Diligence Requests (US)
  6. Data Privacy Compliance Consent Form (US)
  7. Data Breach Checklist (US)

Find more Privacy Samples and Cybersecurity Samples

Insights

Cybersecurity

  1. Top Ten Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Predictions for 2024 (Jackson Lewis, May 28, 2024)
  2. Understanding First-to-Market versus Secure-to-Market (ACC Docket, May 6, 2024)
  3. European Data Protection Board report on areas of improvement for the position of DPOs in EU (Eversheds Sutherland, March 25, 2024)
  4. Don't Let Your Company’s Reputation be Held for Ran$om, (ACC Docket, March 5, 2024)
  5. 4 Ways to Mitigate Vendor Cybersecurity Incidents (ACC Docket, March 1, 2024)
  6. Data Breach: A Playbook for the first 72 hours (ACC Docket, September 12, 2023)

  7. SEC Adopts Final Rules to Enhance Cybersecurity Disclosure (Womble Bond Dickinson, August 15, 2023)

     

Privacy

  1. Creating a Data Retention Policy That Meets Privacy Requirements (Contoural, May 8, 2024)
  2. ACC Legal Operations Privacy Capability Maturity Model (Contoural, April 19, 2024)
  3. HHS Updates Pixels and Trackers Guidance for HIPAA Regulated Entities (Foley & Lardner LLP, March 27, 2024)
  4. Product Privacy Done Right (ACC Docket, March 4, 2024)
  5. UK ICO Publishes Guidance on Employee Monitoring (Eversheds Sutherland, October 26, 2023)
  6. How to File the Chinese Data Privacy Standard Contractual Clauses? (Eversheds Sutherland, August 10, 2023)
  7. ACC Briefing: European Union Adopts New Data Privacy Framework (ACC, July 14, 2023)

Key survey findings from the in-house community

  1. 2024 Chief Legal Officers Survey Report (Key Findings freely available)
  2. 2022 State of Cybersecurity Report: An In-house Perspective (Key Findings freely available).

Find more articles on Privacy and Cybersecurity

Assessment Tools

  1. ACC-Ethisphere Data Privacy Program Assessment Tool  A tool for legal departments to gauge the maturity of their organization's privacy practices (access for purchase on Ethisphere's website)
  2. ACC Data Steward Program  A platform where law firms showcase their data security profile to legal departments

Disclaimer: None of the content included or linked in this ACC resource center (or in any ACC webpage) constitutes legal advice. The assessment tools do not offer or serve as legal advice. For legal advice or representation, please consult a lawyer. 

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