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Advertising Law -- May 17, 2012

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 5/21/2012

In This Issue: PMA To Be Represented by Manatt Partner Linda Goldstein on FTC Panel; Manatt Partner Jeff Edelstein to Lead CLE Privacy Law Webinar Session; Thanks to the FTC, Defendants Won’t “Get Rich Quick” on...more

Spoliation and Social Media

by Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP on 5/18/2012

News media have paid significant attention to court orders requiring production of relevant documents from Facebook and social media sites in the course of litigation. As described in my recent post, the Ontario Information...more

EPIC Proposes Update to Privacy Act to Address Recent Supreme Court Decision

by Electronic Privacy Information Center on 5/14/2012

Following the recent decision of the Supreme Court in FAA v. Cooper, EPIC has set out proposed changes to the Privacy Act that would compensate individuals for provable nonpecuniary harms caused by willful violations of the...more

May 2012: Class Action Litigation Update: Data Breach Class Actions—Courts Treat Theft Differently From Mere Loss

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 5/14/2012

Any company that stores or processes consumers’ personal information is at risk of suffering a data breach — and, potentially, defending a class action lawsuit. Class actions based on data breaches are increasingly common and...more

I Know What You Watched Last Summer

by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 5/11/2012

The Northern District of California continues the series begun by the Seventh Circuit in Sterk v. Redbox Automated Retail LLC, against class actions brought under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act and seeking lucrative...more

European IP Bulletin -- Issue 89, April 2012

by McDermott Will & Emery on 5/9/2012

In This Issue: Contracts Court of Appeal of England and Wales Considers “Best” and “All Reasonable” Endeavours The Court of Appeal of England and Wales in Jet2.com Limited v Blackpool Airport Limited [2011]...more

Data Breaches: Will You Be Sued, And Can You Lower Risk?

by Bryan Cave on 5/2/2012

Originally published in Law360, New York (April 25, 2012, 1:29 PM ET) Statistics regarding data security breaches can be sobering. For instance, according to one widely reported study conducted by the Ponemon Institute,...more

Hand over that Password!!!!!

by Warner Norcross & Judd - Michigan Employment... on 4/24/2012

As you know, there has been a lot of gnashing of teeth lately over employers requiring employees and candidates for employment to hand over their passwords to social media sites like Facebook and Google +. You may recall...more

Employers Cautioned Against Asking Applicants and Employees for Password Access to Personal Social Media Accounts

by Poyner Spruill LLP on 4/24/2012

?Employers are increasingly asking (or requiring) applicants or employees to provide their Facebook password or other social media account log-in credentials so the employer can review non-publicly available content for...more

Employment Law Alert -- April 2012

by Ruskin Moscou Faltischek on 4/20/2012

In This Issue: First Law Passed Banning Request for Personal Passwords and NLRB Poster -- Delayed Again Excerpt from First Law Passed Banning Request for Personal Passwords Maryland has become the first state...more

Credit Processor Pays $1 Million for Data Breach

by Lawyers.com on 4/19/2012

Think your credit card information is secure? Think again. Last month, Heartland Payment Systems, a national credit processor, settled a class action lawsuit to the tune of $1 million after a staggering 130 million credit...more

Federal District Court Holds Allegations of Failure to Protect Data Insufficient to Support Stored Communications Act Claim

by BuckleySandler LLP on 4/16/2012

Last month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois held that a company’s failure to protect personal information does not violate the Stored Communications Act (SCA) because the company did not...more

Washington Federal Court Allows Data Privacy Case Against IMDb to Proceed

by BuckleySandler LLP on 4/9/2012

On March 28, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington held that actress Huong Hoang’s lawsuit against website IMDb.com pled sufficient facts to move forward on her breach of contract and Washington...more

Company computer policies risk becoming obsolete -- Policies must reflect new laws and court decisions on data theft, social...

by Nick Akerman on 4/8/2012

Have your client companies’ policies kept pace with changes in the law affecting computer technology? New statutes and court decisions relating to computer technology affect every business. Many companies overlook...more

U.S. Supreme Court Limits the Scope of "Actual Damages" in the Federal Privacy Act

by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/6/2012

In its March 28 decision in Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper, the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted the federal Privacy Act of 1974 and held that the term "actual damages," as used in the Act, does not include damages...more

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Civil Remedies – May 23, 2012

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