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A class action is a type of legal action where a representative individual or group of individuals can bring a claim on behalf of a larger group or class who share a common legal interest.
Segal McCambridge

The Illinois State Legislature Set to Take up BIPA Reform

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Recently, the Illinois General Assembly have restarted efforts to amend the Biometric Information Privacy Act of 2008 (“the Act”). On January 31, 2024, Senator Bill Cunningham introduced S.B. 2979 ostensibly to answer the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Lawsuit Seeks to Block OCR HIPAA Guidance on Online Tracking Tools

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Hospitals care about patient privacy, but they also have to connect with the public. In the real world, people mostly connect online. Having a fully functional online presence often requires help from third parties. ...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

BJ’s Wholesale Club Loses Bid to Dismiss Complaint Alleging Massachusetts State Law Claims for Wiretap Violations and Invasion of...

Joe Alves filed a class-action complaint against BJ’s Wholesale Club, alleging that BJ’s uses computer code, called Session Replay Code (SRC), to secretly record consumer activity on BJ’s website. Alves claims that BJ’s...more

BCLP

VPPA Trends: Considerations for Limiting Exposure

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In recent months, organizations have been dealing with an emerging wave of lawsuits from an unexpected source: the VPPA. The Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), originally intended to prevent “wrongful disclosures” of...more

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California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) Decisions Continue to Create Uncertainty for Websites Using Third-Party Technology

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The pace of internet consumer privacy class action litigation is skyrocketing. Remarkably, no specific legislative change in the law triggered the increase in litigation. Instead, the driver of this litigation explosion — in...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: April 2023

Personal information from federal lawmakers and congressional staff members was available on the dark web following a breach of DC Health Link, the health insurance marketplace for Washington, D.C. In an internal memo sent to...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Tracking Online User Activity: HIPAA and Other Legal Risks

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The use of tracking technologies on websites and mobile applications (e.g., cookies) has become largely ubiquitous in our technology-driven world. Health care providers and organizations, for example, may use tracking...more

K&L Gates LLP

Litigation Minute: Mitigating Class Action Risks Posed by Collecting and Storing Sensitive Data

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS - The collection and storage of sensitive data can not only invite the attention of government agencies, but also that of putative class action plaintiffs. Government inquiries,...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Warning, Border Ahead? Expanding Israeli Courts' Jurisdiction over Foreign Defendants

In early June 2021, the Tel Aviv-Yafo District Court handed down an important precedential ruling. The ruling expands the identity of an authorized agent, i.e., the entity to whom a statement of claim may be served and that...more

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ERISA Cybersecurity Lessons for Employers

Retirement plans are increasingly subject to cybersecurity issues, and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is taking notice. On April 14, 2021, the DOL published cybersecurity guidance “for plan sponsors, plan fiduciaries,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

School Nutrition Vendor Sued for Compromise of 867,209 K-12 Student Records

PCS Revenue Control Systems, Inc. (PCS) was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit last week alleging that it discovered a data breach from a hacking attack in December 2019 but failed to notify the affected students until...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Wisconsin Wage And Hour Law: Rounding Employee Time

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Wage and hour claims, particularly those asserting class or collective violations, comprise a significant percentage of employment law claims across the country, and Wisconsin is no exception. Improper rounding and other...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Privacy Litigation Updates for the Financial Services Sector: Yodlee and Envestnet Sued for Data Disclosure and Processing...

Consumers are more aware than ever of data privacy and security issues. As technology develops, vast quantities of data are collected on individuals every minute of every day. Customers trust their institutions to keep the...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Privacy and Data Security Alert l March 2020

Shook Weighs in on Updated CCPA Regulations - In response to extensive public comment, the California Attorney General’s office released modified draft regulations under the CCPA on February 7. Shook has provided initial...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 3.4.2020 | Top Story: Stocks Rebound

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Stocks rebounded with the S&P 500 making gains for the second time in three days and 10-year Treasury yields fell below 1%; analyst suggest the market upswing was caused, in part, by the Democratic primary results showing...more

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If Your Condo or Coop Utilizes CSC ServiceWorks, Inc., Act Now for Class Action Benefits

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If your condo or coop utilizes CSC ServiceWorks, Inc. (CSC) for laundry services, your condo or coop may be able to benefit from a class action settlement if you act now. A class action suit against laundry machine services...more

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Supreme Court of Canada rules on Crown copyright

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On Thursday September 26, 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its highly anticipated decision in Keatley Surveying Ltd v Teranet Inc (2019 SCC 43), finding that the Province of Ontario holds copyright in plans of survey...more

The Volkov Law Group

Managing Third-Party Vendor Cybersecurity Risks (Part II of III)

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We all know that businesses rely on a large number of third-party vendors to support their business operations.  Many of these third parties require access to a company’s data and its internal information and technology...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Utility Provider Settles Call Recording Lawsuit for $3.7 Million

Tiger Natural Gas, Inc. recently settled a class action privacy suit alleging that it illegally recorded sales calls with over 27,000 potential customers. Although Tiger hired a third party to handle its telemarketing, Tiger...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Fourth Circuit Upholds $61 Million Judgment Against Dish Network for Third-Party TCPA Violations

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The recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirming the district court's judgment imposing more than $61 million in damages against Dish Network for its vendor's violations of the Telephone...more

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Tech Support Independent Contractor Class Claims Climbing

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Wage-and-hour class litigation tends to come in waves. In 2019, we are seeing another wave gather on the horizon: misclassification collective actions alleging that companies have improperly classified at-the-elbow (“ATE”)...more

Carlton Fields

Question Of Consent Turns Putative TCPA Fax Class Action Into Junk

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A recent decision by a Connecticut district court reiterates that the issue of consent may foreclose class certification in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) junk fax cases....more

BCLP

Avoiding the California Privacy and Security Litigation Tsunami: CCPA FAQ: Does the CCPA’s Statutory Damages And Other Provisions...

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Companies that do business in California know that it is a magnet for class action litigation. The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), a new privacy law that applies to data collected about California residents, will...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Court of Appeal Affirms Decision to Dismiss the Rana Plaza Class Action

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On December 20, 2018, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision in the Rana Plaza Class Action (Das v George Weston Limited, 2018 ONCA 1053) affirming the Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s decision to dismiss the...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Bad Plan: Court Approves Certification in TCPA Text Message Case Including Remarkable...

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Well now I’ve seen everything. Yep. Everything. Yesterday a court in Florida certified a TCPA class action against Pizza Hut and some of its marketing partners/friends/afilliates, whatever, that’s not the point. Because...more

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