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Legal Issues With Blockchains, Cryptocurrency Transactions, and Risks of Loss: Understand Your Contract

Houston Harbaugh, P.C. on 8/23/2024

The widespread and debilitating impacts of the recent faulty Crowdstrike® software update has caused businesses to evaluate processes and examine potential claims and defenses related to the deleterious commercial impacts of...more

Ninth Circuit kicks data breach class actions against sporting goods retailers to arbitration

Kilpatrick on 2/29/2024

The Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s decision to grant motions to compel arbitration and dismiss without prejudice six putative class actions against sporting goods retailers based on “sufficiently...more

Walmart Litigation Provides Guidance on Data Breach Class Action Suits Under the CCPA

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/2/2021

Gardiner v. Walmart provided some guidance as to the specificity required to state a claim under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the types of damages that may be recoverable for breaches of California consumer...more

June 2020 Monthly Minute | Effectively Protecting Your Data

Kilpatrick on 6/17/2020

Once a month, we cover an interesting intellectual property topic. This month, Senior Associate Richard Goldstucker and Associate Tony Glosson discuss effectively protecting your data....more

Is Your Disclosure Sufficient? New Challenge to Application’s Privacy Policy

Morgan Lewis on 1/31/2019

Does your website or application collect user data? Does your company sell that user data to other third parties, such as advertisers? Does your company disclose this practice to your users in a privacy policy or terms or...more

Contract Corner: Data Commons (Part 2 – The Approach)

Morgan Lewis on 12/14/2018

In Part 1 of this series, we provided an overview of data (or knowledge) commons and some key issues to consider, but how does one actually create and manage a data commons? To find your feet in this budding field, build on...more

Contract Corner: Data Commons (Part 1 – The Framework)

Morgan Lewis on 12/6/2018

You may have heard of the “tragedy of the commons,” where a resource is depleted through collective action, but knowledge is different from other resources—knowledge can be duplicated, aggregated, integrated, analyzed,...more

FTC Enforcement of COPPA for Internet of Things Reaches Flashpoint

Morgan Lewis on 1/17/2018

Galvanized by a confluence of charged factors—like privacy, cybersecurity, children, and the Internet of Things (IoT)—and sparked by recent assertions of Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) regulatory power, the...more

3 Questions to Ask About Free File-Hosting Services

Robins Kaplan LLP on 7/11/2014

The landscape of data storage and maintenance is shifting. Despite significant company investments in secure, onsite data storage systems, today’s data storage environment can create challenges for many of these extensive...more

On a Collision Course: How Domain Name Collision Could be Your Biggest Security Threat

Snell & Wilmer on 1/28/2014

We are barely a month into 2014 and one of the news stories that is likely to be most memorable for the year is the Target security breach that resulted in upwards of 70 million customers’ personal information being...more

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