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A Year in Privacy and Security: Privacy Violations, Large-Scale Data Breaches, and Big Fines and Settlements

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/3/2025

2024 was a year chock-full of data breaches and privacy violations. Many new data privacy and cybersecurity regulations were introduced (and became effective), and regulators sent a strong message to businesses that privacy...more

The Learned Concierge - May 2024, Vol. 8

Clark Hill PLC on 5/3/2024

The Learned Concierge - Welcome to your monthly legal insights on the trends impacting the Retail, Hospitality, and Food & Beverage Industries....more

ArentFox Schiff's 2023 Class Action Year in Review

ArentFox Schiff on 3/22/2024

ArentFox Schiff's annual review of significant developments and trends that shaped class action litigation in 2023 has major implications for companies across the country. From labor and employment disputes to landmark...more

ID verification provider to pay $28.5 million to settle BIPA allegations

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 5/12/2023

On May 5, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois preliminarily approved an amended class action settlement in which an identification verification service provider agreed to pay $28.5 million to settle...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 3, March 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/3/2023

Amazon Sued for Not Telling New York Store Customers about Tracking Biometrics - “Thanks to a 2021 law, New York is the only major American city to require businesses to post signs letting customers know they’re tracking...more

Illinois Supreme Court says BIPA claims accrue with every transmission

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 2/24/2023

On February 17, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a split decision holding that under the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), claims accrue “with every scan or transmission of biometric identifiers or biometric...more

More Privacy, Please - July 2021

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/8/2021

Do you want a simple way to keep current on important privacy changes? Avoid sleepless nights wondering whether you missed a privacy speed bump or pothole between annual updates? Worry no longer. Troutman Pepper is pleased to...more

Data & Privacy Update: Biometric, Ransomware, PIPEDA and EU-UK Data Transfers

Williams Mullen on 2/25/2021

2021 promises to be an exciting year in the data and privacy space. With the adoption of technologies that collect, analyze, aggregate, distribute and share data, and the implementation of new laws and regulations in...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 7, September 2020

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/4/2020

U.S. Judge Halts Trump's TikTok Ban, Hours Before It was Set to Start - "John Hall, an attorney for TikTok, said that the app, with some 100 million American users, is a 'modern day version of the town square' and shutting...more

Privacy and Data Security Alert l March 2020

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 3/10/2020

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

Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Bill Could Dramatically Expand Class Action Litigation Risk

Pierce Atwood LLP on 5/22/2019

Earlier this year, Massachusetts state senators introduced a consumer data privacy bill with a private right of action that could become the broadest in the country. ...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - May 2019 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 5/13/2019

Hotel chain Fillmore Hospitality, LLC is the latest target of a proposed class action complaint filed this week, alleging violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). We don’t usually discuss the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2019 #5

Robinson & Cole LLP on 2/4/2019

I was a speaker at a recent conference of municipalities in a state last week, and during my presentation, I mentioned the various cyber-attacks that have affected cities, towns and educational departments in the U.S....more

Privacy and Data Security Client Alert | January 2019

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 1/29/2019

Going Deep on the California Consumer Privacy Act - The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been called the beginning of America’s GDPR. As the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States, entities doing...more

Rivera v. Google Bolsters Article III Challenges to Privacy Suits – But Risks Remain

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 1/24/2019

Rivera v. Google, a recent federal court decision from the Northern District of Illinois, highlights how challenges to Article III standing are a versatile and useful tool for corporate defendants in privacy and cybersecurity...more

The Weekly Privacy Rewind

BakerHostetler on 10/9/2018

BIPA - Medline and Con Tech Lighting Latest Illinois Employers Hit With Claims under BIPA • Two Illinois employers, Con Tech Lighting and Medline Industries, are the latest to face claims alleging violations of Illinois’...more

The Weekly Privacy Rewind

BakerHostetler on 6/20/2018

Class Actions - Finkly & Sons Co. Faces Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act Class Action - A former employee of steelmaker A. Finkly & Sons Co. filed a putative class action against the company in Cook County,...more

OnRisk: Biometric Insurance

K&L Gates LLP on 6/11/2018

Issues of digital privacy are multi-faceted and extend far beyond the now-routine data breaches that make headlines. The digital collection, use, and storage of biometric information (fingerprints, retinal or iris scans,...more

The Weekly Privacy Rewind

BakerHostetler on 5/21/2018

Class Actions - Facebook Users BIPA Suit to Go Forward - • Denying cross-motions for summary judgment, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the class action against Facebook for...more

The Weekly Privacy Rewind

BakerHostetler on 3/19/2018

Class Actions - Facebook Cannot Evade Suit Under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act Even Where No Proof of Harm - In separate rulings handed down last week in the Northern District of California, the court...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 3/16/2018

Verizon's Protected Health Information Data Breach Report Concludes that Insiders Are Greatest Threat to Health Care Entities - Verizon recently issued its Protected Health Information Data Breach Report, which is always...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2017

Robinson & Cole LLP on 11/3/2017

US-CERT Warns of New Ransomware: Bad Rabbit - The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning companies in the U.S. about a new ransomware dubbed “Bad Rabbit.” US-CERT stated it has received multiple...more

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