Twenty-Seventh Annual Institute on Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Data privacy and cybersecurity issues have become mission-critical C-Suite issues because they directly affect a company’s strategy, legal compliance obligations, financial health, and reputation. Data has become one of the most valuable assets for private and public sector organizations alike. The Internet, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, biometrics, and other transformative technologies employ powerful tools to collect, combine, analyze, use, store, and dispose of personal information. Questions abound regarding the responsibility that comes with the extraordinary power of data-driven generative AI. These rapidly changing data trends create a breathtaking range of compliance and liability issues, while raising the stakes for protecting such data in challenging risk environments, whether internal vulnerabilities or criminal cyberattacks or other threats. New laws and obligations are continually emerging from legislators, regulators, and the courts to address the corresponding privacy and cybersecurity implications. This annual program focuses on the latest developments, along with strategic approaches, to keep attorneys and other privacy and cybersecurity professionals up-to-date and ready to respond effectively in this complex and dynamic area.

After completing this program, participants will be able to:  

• Discuss strategies for minimizing privacy and security risks associated with the latest technological developments, including generative AI, agentic AI, emotion AI, and deepfakes

• Identify key data protection legal developments in the US, at the federal level, and from coast-to-coast, including continually changing state comprehensive privacy frameworks

• Apply privacy and security lessons learned from recent FTC and state attorney general enforcement actions

• Understand critical privacy considerations in the US and globally for employers in the era of AI and algorithmic decision-making 

• Know the latest developments beyond the US, including the EU and UK, and compare key trends in global data protection law developments

• Recognize lawyers’ ethical obligations to keep up with technological advancements, including generative AI

• Analyze cybersecurity challenges and practical approaches to a continually changing threat landscape … including how to manage a global data breach

• Define core components to strategically implement privacy and cybersecurity measures, informed by the latest insights of CPOs and CISOs