Are You Ready for Brazil’s New Data Protection Law?
27 December 2018
The Brazilian General Data Protection Law (“Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados” or “LGPD”), passed by Congress on 14 August 2018, will come into effect on...
Blog: Chronicle of Data Protection | 25 April 2013
On April 25, Hogan Lovells partner Harriet Pearson testified before the US House of Representatives on the relationship between cybersecurity and privacy in business. The Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies of the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing on "Striking the Right Balance: Protecting our Nation's Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Attack and Ensuring Privacy and Civil Liberties" to examine existing privacy protections and learn more about potential improvements. In her testimony, Pearson summarized the challenge:
The relationship between cybersecurity and privacy is complex. On the one hand, cybersecurity that protects data from intrusion, theft, and misuse obviously is a significant privacy safeguard. On the other hand, cybersecurity measures that monitor access and use can implicate the collection of personal information (or data that can be linked to individuals), and thus raises privacy concerns.Pearson first outlined several cybersecurity-related measures that may require access to personal information, and thus potentially implicate privacy concerns: