Because You Need to Know: Monthly News Round-Up for March 2020

A monthly round-up of industry news stories, useful publications, and notable cases of which you should be aware from the preceding month

Welcome to “Because You Need to Know,” XDD’s monthly news round-up.  In these posts, we gather together interesting articles, noteworthy cases, new publications, and XDD materials from the preceding month.  This post gathers items of interest from March 2020.

Industry News Stories

Interesting topics in the news from March include adapting to COVID-19 and maintaining privacy compliance:

• Adapting to COVID-19
  • More U.K., U.S. Firms Rolling Out Global Remote Working in Virus Response
  • ‘It’s Kind of a Mess’: Phone Arguments Get Rocky Debut at DC Circuit During COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Texas Judges Rushing to Learn Video Conferencing as Shelter-In-Place Orders Spread
  • The New York State Courts Have Suspended Most Court Filings as of March 22, 2020
  • K. Government Launches Remote Courts Platform in Response to Pandemic

• Maintaining Privacy Compliance
  • Three New Changes to the Revised CCPA Regulations and New CCPA Lawsuits
  • How to Heed Privacy Law in the Midst of a Pandemic
  • Best Practices for Responding to Subpoenas That Conflict With Foreign Data Privacy Laws
  • Uncertainty Surrounds Privacy Compliance, Enforcement With NY SHIELD Act

Notable Cases

New eDiscovery cases discussed in March include:

• California Federal District Court For The First Time Approves Of U.S. Discovery In Aid Of Foreign-Seated Private Commercial Arbitration
• District Court Stays Discovery Deadlines Because Of Coronavirus Threat But Keeps Markman Hearing On Calendar
• McParland v Whitehead: Chancellor of the High Court gives guidance on the Disclosure Pilot Scheme
• Ninth Circuit Provides Guidance On Pre-Certification Discovery

XDD Materials

In March, XDD published two new blog articles and a new educational webinar:

• Blog Articles
  • 2020 Social Media Update:
    • More Recent Social Media Cases, Part 4
  • Other News and Cases:
    • Are Parties Obligated to Obtain Translations for Production?

• Educational Webinar
  • “Thar She Blows!” Spearphishing, Whaling, and Everything in Between – Social engineering has long been one of the ways that cybersecurity could be compromised.  Once accomplished through dumpster diving, surveillance, pretext calls, and other methods, social engineering now requires simply sending an email.  Hackers have learned that the easiest way to penetrate security is to create an opportunity for someone to voluntarily provide their username and password.  Companies of all sizes are falling victim to these types of attacks because the information looks legitimate, because it is designed to motivate an instant response, and because we have a tendency to trust what we see. Thus, it is crucial to understand how spearphishing works, how to spot a questionable email, and what advice to give to a client – either to minimize the risk beforehand, or to manage the situation after the fact.  In this free, one-hour webinar, XDD VP of Forensics Paul Price provides an engaging discussion of cybersecurity, spearphishing, and whaling – and of how to address these growing challenges in your organization.

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