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Recent Amendments to Pennsylvania “Breach of Personal Information Notification Act”

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On June 28, 2024, Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania approved several notable amendments to the Commonwealth’s data breach notification law (SB 824). In summary, the revised statute: adds a regulator notification...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Utah Amends Data Breach Law, Creates Cyber Center

Utah’s breach notification requirements will change on May 3, 2023. The recently amended data breach notification law now requires companies to notify the Attorney General for a breach involving 500 or more state residents....more

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Fourth Circuit Finds No Article III Standing in Privacy Case

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A new Fourth Circuit decision has thrown out of federal court a state-law privacy claim where the plaintiff alleged only a bare statutory violation without alleging “a nonspeculative, increased risk of identity theft,”...more

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New Jersey District Court Dismisses Claims Brought under the FCRA After Data Breach Incident

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On December 22, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed putative class claims brought against a health insurance company, following a 2013 data breach incident. In In re Horizon Healthcare Servs. Data...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Financial Services Report - Spring 2021

Can you say 0 to 60? Not cars, but pretty much everything to do with financial services. A new year, a new administration, and new challenges for providers. Prior CFPB Director Kraninger is long gone. Acting Director Uejio...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Central District of California Rejects Class Claims, Finding That Disclosure of All Data Is Not Required Under FCRA Section...

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On November 18, 2020, the United States District Court for the Central District of California (the “Central District”) dismissed the First Amended Complaint of putative class representatives asserting a FCRA claim against...more

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US Data Breach and Privacy 2019 Legislative Recap

A few weeks ago, Texas signed into law an amendment to its data breach law, capping off a busy first half of 2019 for state lawmakers in this arena. As we gear up for the second half of 2019, we thought a recap was...more

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North Carolina Amendments to Data Breach Law Finally Introduced

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On April 16, 2019, Representatives Saine, Jones and Reives introduced House Bill 904, the long anticipated amendments to the North Carolina Identity Theft Protection Act, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-61 et seq.. We first wrote about...more

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FCRA Claims Dismissed in Massive Equifax Data Breach Case

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Yesterday, the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted a motion to dismiss FCRA claims in a case involving one of the largest data breaches in history....more

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Jones Day Global Privacy & Data Security Update | Vol. 20

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UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - NIST Releases Internal Report Regarding IoT Cybersecurity - In September, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") released a draft...more

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Preliminary approval of class action settlement for Experian data breach exceeds $47M

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Remember Experian’s massive data breach of 15 million customers in 2015? The resulting consolidated class action is nearly resolved. On December 3, 2018, a California federal judge granted preliminary approval to a proposed...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

California Proposes New Liability Regime for Companies That Deal in Credit Reports

The California Legislature is considering enacting Assembly Bill 1859 (“AB 1859”), which would impose substantial new security obligations on consumer credit reporting agencies and companies that contract with such agencies....more

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All 50 States Have Breach Notification Laws

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Alabama and South Dakota have now enacted data breach notification laws. They were the last two states in the United States without a notification law. Both laws cover the usual topics, defining what categories of information...more

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Tougher Privacy and Data Security Protections Coming to North Carolina

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A bi-partisan privacy and data security bill, which will significantly impact companies with North Carolina employees, is in the works. North Carolina State Representative Jason Saine (R), Appropriations Chairman of...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

New York Regulation of Consumer Reporting Agencies Following Data Breaches

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This week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a press release directing the New York Department of State to issue a new regulation impacting consumer reporting agencies....more

Fenwick & West LLP

Litigation Alert: The Third Circuit Holds That Allegations That Personal Information Was Improperly Disclosed in Violation of the...

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Last week, the Third Circuit held that allegations of the unauthorized disclosure of personal information in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) constituted a de facto injury sufficient to confer standing at the...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

2016 Data Breach Litigation Report

Data security breaches – and data security breach litigation – dominated the headlines in 2015 and continue to do so in 2016. Continuous widely publicized breaches have led to 30,000 articles a month being published that...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

NAIC Cybersecurity Task Force Adopts Cybersecurity Bill of Rights

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On October 14, 2015, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Cybersecurity Task Force adopted the Cybersecurity Bill of Rights, a document meant to inform consumers of the services they can expect from...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Seventh Circuit rules hospital system is not a Consumer Reporting Agency under FCRA

Is a hospital a “consumer reporting agency”? Can a health care provider be liable under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in the event of a data breach? The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently considered these...more

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