On June 6, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Federal Reserve), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC, and collectively with the...more
The saga of the Capital One data breach, which impacted an estimated 106 million individuals in the U.S. and Canada, may soon be coming to an end. After more than two years of litigation, the parties have reached a settlement...more
2/22/2022
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Recently the state of California passed a data privacy and security law called the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) (Assembly Bill 375).
The law, which takes effect on January 1, 2020, is aimed at establishing a...more
7/31/2018
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Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
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Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Rights ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Minors ,
Opt-In ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action ,
Right to Delete ,
Right To Know
On November 10th, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed an embarrassing defeat to the Federal Trade Commission and an early Christmas present to LabMD, Inc. in the ongoing David and Goliath battle between the...more
11/29/2016
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Electronic Medical Records ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
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LabMD ,
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Reversal ,
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Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
On August 1, 2016, the U.S. Department of Commerce began accepting self-certification applications for the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. In the month that has followed over 100 companies (including Microsoft, Oracle...more
On October 10, 2012, the South Carolina Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Jennings v. Jennings. The court was faced with the challenge of interpreting a somewhat ambiguous provision in the Stored Communications Act...more
On October 8th, the U.S. House of Representative’s Intelligence Committee issued an investigative report (the “Report”) on issues related to the operations of Huawei Technologies Company Ltd. and ZTE Corporation. The Report...more