Given the ever-changing technology landscape, McGuireWoods’ data privacy and security team members ensure that they are up-to-date on the latest legal trends, court decisions and regulations, one such example being the “bring your own device” (BYOD) issue. We are involved in forums and think tanks, such as the NTIA call for commentary on issues relating to how companies will manage data privacy in an age in which employees have multiple online lives through a single mobile device.

Areas of experience include:

  • Breach notification and representation before regulators
  • Data transfer and representation before regulators
  • e-discovery issues relating to U.S. and European litigation
  • EU data privacy and regulator representation
  • PIPEDA data privacy compliance
  • Industrial espionage investigations and litigation
  • Intellectual property litigation
  • Trade-secret protection and litigation
  • Bring your own device (BYOD)
  • Cloud computing, contracts and security
  • Computer intrusion
  • Crisis communications
  • Defense contracting and security
  • Employee data management
  • Employer and employee relations and privacy
  • Encryption policy deployment and export controls
  • Financial services data privacy and protection regulatory compliance
  • Global data transfer
  • Government and criminal investigations
  • HIPAA and HITECH security assessments and audits
  • Identity theft
  • Incident response
  • Mobile data privacy
  • Payment credit-card industry data security standards (PCI DSS)
  • Privacy consulting
  • Regulatory consulting on security standards
  • Safe-harbor provisions
  • Technology export and import controls

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