Nearly 70% of general counsel cited data security as a top legal risk in a Morrison & Foerster LLP survey taken between September and November. That’s more than double the percentage that held that view in March.
Companies that had been ramping up their privacy work because of the growth of regulations and cyberattacks have been forced to move faster with work-from-home pandemic risks and questions surrounding employees’ eventual return to the office.
“There are so many novel issues related to this pandemic that there’s no way that we’re going to know how to handle it,” said Michael Meehan, general counsel of Raleigh, N.C.-based artificial intelligence company Diveplane Corp. “We have to rely on outside counsel to educate us and help us navigate.”
