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Amelia M. Gerlicher

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Amelia Gerlicher focuses her practice in the areas of privacy and data security, counseling clients on preparing for and reacting to data breaches and network intrusions, as well as helping clients assess and address the privacy and data security risks that arise from a wide range of commercial activities.

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2022 has been relatively quiet as it relates to state updates to breach notification laws, but Maryland made significant alterations to its general data breach notification law. Additionally, several other states made more minor changes, and the federal government issued or proposed several new data security and breach reporting requirements for certain types of…

Cyberattacks continue to make the news and affect our lives in increasingly more significant ways. However, after several years in which states have actively updated breach notification laws in reaction to significant data breaches, 2021, like 2020, has been relatively quiet. Just two states—Connecticut and Texas—have updated their general data breach notification laws, and only…