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Mary T. Costigan is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. and a core member of the firm’s Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity practice group. She holds a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (iapp).

Mary advises regional, national and multinational clients across various industries on data privacy and cybersecurity laws and best practices including employee monitoring, internet privacy, biometric data collection, artificial intelligence, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), HIPAA, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

Mary has extensive experience helping clients respond to cybersecurity incidents including ransomware attacks.

As the COVID-19 pandemic presses on, privacy and security matters continue to be at the forefront for federal and state legislature. We recently reported that Washington D.C. updated its data breach notification law. Now, the Vermont legislature also amended its data breach notification law, with significant overhauls including expansion of its definition of personal information,