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Unwrapping 2024’s Key Trends in Data Privacy Litigation

Ropes & Gray LLP on 12/6/2024

Data breaches made headlines throughout 2024, affecting governments, health care groups, and telecoms. Follow-on litigation has kept pace. Nearly 4,000 class actions involving data privacy issues are estimated to be filed in...more

Building a Robust Biometric Compliance Program in the US: A Five-Step Checklist

White & Case LLP on 11/9/2020

As companies across industries continue to take advantage of existing and emerging technologies that involve the collection and use of human biometric identifiers, corporate privacy programs must take into account the unique...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 8/2/2019

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine New York's new laws expanding consumer protection for data breaches, the D.C. Circuit's two rulings deepening the split regarding standing in data...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 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

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

About face: court finds biometric information creates unique privacy rights

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 3/13/2018

Just two months after an Illinois appellate court dismissed a similar complaint alleging a violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a California federal court found that a claim asserted under BIPA...more

Actual Injury Required to Sue Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/12/2018

In recent years, the use of biometrics in business has been growing. In the employment context, for example, some employers use biometric time clocks, which allow employees to “clock in” with a fingerprint or iris scan....more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - September 2017

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/29/2017

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we take a look at the first annual review of the Privacy Shield by U.S. and EU officials, and the Federal Trade Commission's first actions alleging Privacy Shield...more

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