An
Unpredictable
Future Calls
for an
Informed
Community
New Section Forming: Technology, Privacy and
Cybersecurity Law.
STEPHEN BUSH
Bodker, Ramsey, Andrews,
Winograd & Wildstein, PC
[email protected]
12
April 2020
MICHAEL JABLONSKI
Law Office of Michael
Jablonski
[email protected]
“Come gather ‘round people, wherever you roam,” sang Bob Dylan
in 1964. The line was a call to all that, without knowing how things
may turn out, the times were in fact changing. Was this written and
solidified in all its vinyl glory with the understanding that one day
the entire planet would experience a deadly pandemic that would
keep us inside our homes, comforted by the technology on which we
have come to rely? Or, was it some time-traveling premonition that
one day, after a career spanning half a century, Bob himself would
record a new 17-minute song, to be announced in 2020 solely via the
now-ubiquitous (and politically-tumultuous) technology platform
Twitter. Nobody back in 1964 could have imagined that.
With this idea in mind, we are forming a new Atlanta Bar Section
focused on technology, data privacy, and cyber security, as main areas
of interest. Furthermore, the Section will explore how practitioners
can better understand the relationship between these areas, how we
can better advise clients, and how we can create a lively community
within which a robust system of knowledge and referral sources can
be accessed. Our clients do not know what they do not know. This
is no different for attorneys, who must serve as trusted advisors,
and thus must remain out in front of the concept and scope of what
privacy means. This is the future for every person, and by extension
every single area of law practice. An in-depth understanding of data
privacy should be a basic tenant of any attorney’s practice. This is
the spirit behind the Technology, Privacy, and Cyber Security Law
Section: to serve as a reminder - through education, community, and
overall public service – of just how far times have changed, and to
constantly be aware, for the benefit of our practices, our clients, and
by extension those communities we serve, of just how nimble we all
must be. Speaking of nimble innovation, the Board members of the
Atlanta Bar Association, for the first time in its illustrious history,
have allowed the mandatory petition to start this new section
proceed electronically, via an online petition. Please join us today.
There is no better time for practitioners to consider the privacy and