California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Data Breach, Personally Identifiable Information

Understanding Breach Notification Obligations Under California Law: What Does the CCPA Require? - Dear Mary – Incidents +...

Troutman Pepper on 7/17/2024

‘Dear Mary,’ is Troutman Pepper’s Incidents + Investigations team’s advice column. Here, you will find Mary’s answers to questions about anything and everything cyber-related – data breaches, forensic investigations, how to...more

Privacy Versus Cyber – What is the Bigger Risk?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/11/2024

“Cybersecurity” has emerged as one of top risks facing organizations. Considering the steady stream of massive data breaches affecting millions (sometimes billions), the debilitating effects of ransomware on an organization’s...more

The best data retention policy template to get you started (Updated)

Onna Technologies, Inc. on 8/14/2023

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in October 2020 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. They say more is better. And that’s true in many cases, but not when we’re talking about a stockpile...more

California Consumer Privacy Act, California Privacy Rights Act FAQs for Covered Businesses

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/20/2022

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), considered one of the most expansive U.S. privacy laws to date, went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA placed significant limitations on the collection and sale of a...more

2021 Data Privacy Overview: New Regulations and Guidance

Lighthouse on 1/12/2022

While everyone hoped that 2021 would be less tumultuous than 2020, it certainly did not turn out that way in the end. The same was true in the world of data privacy – with sweeping new data protection regulations and guidance...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2021 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 12/27/2021

CYBERSECURITY - New Jersey Settles with Cancer Center Over Business Email Compromise - One of the challenging things about HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) enforcement is the fact that both the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2021 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 8/24/2021

CYBERSECURITY - T-Mobile Clarifies Facts of Security Incident in Press Release - There has been a flurry of reporting in the past few days on the T-Mobile customer data compromise, with allegations that the compromise...more

Blackbaud Must Face CCPA Claims in Multi-district Class Action from Data Breach

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/20/2021

Blackbaud, which suffered a data breach of its customers’ data in a ransomware attack in 2020, in which it admitted paying the ransom in a double extortion attack, is facing multiple class action cases following the attack. ...more

$2.35 Million Settlement in Dickey’s Barbecue Data Breach Class Action

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/20/2021

This week, a proposed data breach class action against Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants Inc. was settled for $2.35 million in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas with approval of the settlement terms by...more

CCPA Breach Class Action Settlement About to Get “Minted”

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 5/21/2021

Although the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”) went into effect on January 1, 2020 and over 100 class actions referencing the CCPA have been filed to date, very few class actions have actually made their way to...more

How to Address Cybersecurity Risks In A Private Placement Memorandum

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC on 5/5/2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) requires companies to disclose the most significant factors that make investments in the company speculative or risky. Private Placement Memorandums (“PPMs”) are often used...more

Protecting Information While Working from Home – One Year Later

Payne & Fears on 4/12/2021

One year after COVID caused companies to send droves of employees home to work remotely, how well did those employees do at protecting their clients’ and their company’s confidential information and what can they do better...more

Taking Notes from California: Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and West Virginia All Introduce CCPA-Inspired Consumer Privacy Legislation...

Fisher Phillips on 4/8/2021

A slew of consumer protection laws have been introduced throughout the country this year, with many taking notes from California’s Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). In the last month alone, in fact, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and...more

Recent Developments in the State Data-Privacy Landscape: Is Federal Involvement the Best Way Forward?

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 4/7/2021

With a dizzying array of state privacy laws on the horizon, the prospect of a federal solution has come into sharp focus. Rather than a patchwork of regional legislation, a comprehensive national framework would potentially...more

[Podcast] 2020 CCPA Litigation Report – Analyzing the First Year of Litigation

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/7/2021

In this episode, Akin Gump cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice co-heads Natasha Kohne and Michelle Reed, and counsel Molly Whitman discuss the firm’s new 2020 CCPA Litigation Annual Report and its...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2021

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/2/2021

CYBERSECURITY - GAO Report Identifies Need for DOE to Address Risks to Electrical Distribution System - The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently completed and published a study on electricity...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

California Court Tosses Alleged "Data Breach" Suit, Holding CCPA Does Not Apply Retroactively

Troutman Pepper on 3/25/2021

In Gardiner v. Walmart, Inc., a Walmart customer who purchased goods online filed a putative class action alleging that Walmart's cybersecurity procedures led to a purported unauthorized disclosure of his personal identifying...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2021

Robinson & Cole LLP on 3/12/2021

CYBERSECURITY - Microsoft Releases Additional Resources for Exchange Flaws and CISA Issues Alert - As we alerted our readers last week, Microsoft announced that its Exchange email servers have been compromised, which is...more

Federal Court Finds the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Does Not Apply Retroactively, Dismissing Claims Against Walmart...

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/11/2021

A federal District Court in California recently dismissed a lawsuit against Walmart that arose from an alleged data breach. (Gardiner v. Walmart, Inc., 20-cv-04618-JSW (N.D. Cal., March 5, 2021). Among other things, the court...more

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