Navigating the rapidly shifting contours of data privacy law demands a pragmatic approach.

This inaugural publication of Data Privacy: The Current Legal Landscape  provides practitioners with functional issue-spotting guidance for application in the evolving data privacy and cybersecurity arenas.

The results and analyses discussed in this publication benefit from our decades of experience at the intersection of business, technology and government regulation, and from our in-depth understanding of current and emerging security protocols.

Data Privacy: The Current Legal Landscape  provides an exhaustive dive into recent privacy case law, regulatory actions, legislation, and international developments starting with an overview of privacy law in the United States and developing trends. Building on our team's experience representing clients in hundreds of data privacy and breach-related disputes, from individual FCRA cases to class action and multidistrict litigation involving data subject claims, card issuers' claims, the publication provides (1) updates on new U.S. legislation and amendments; (2) a review of evolving data breach and impermissible "tracking" case law; (3) insight into developments in regulatory enforcement; ending with (4) an overview of notable international developments.

We hope that you find this publication useful, as it will be supplemented quarterly and annually to address current events and emerging threats in today's changing legal and business environment. Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions about the publication or about data security, information governance or privacy. We also welcome any suggestions as to how we can improve this and other publications.

The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.