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The Intangible Concrete Injury: A 2024 Update of Post-TransUnion Decisions on ‎Standing for Data Breach Class Actions

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/14/2024

Jurisprudence on Article III standing requires a plaintiff to demonstrate an injury in fact, which must be both (1) concrete and (2) actual or imminent. For a plaintiff seeking redress in a data breach case, sufficiently...more

FTC Releases 2023 Privacy and Data Security Update

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/12/2024

On March 28, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a Privacy and Data Security Update, highlighting the FTC’s activities in recent years through December 2023. The FTC underscored its work on issues related to...more

Marking Data Privacy Week With Four 2024 Predictions

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 2/1/2024

Data Privacy Week is always ongoing! Here are some of Hinshaw's top data privacy law predictions for 2024. 1. New State Data Laws Will Continue to be Adopted in 2024, Varying in Scope and Enforcement Mechanisms - There will...more

White House Ushers in New Era of Regulation With Landmark Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 11/8/2023

The AI executive order moves the U.S. closer to a broader unified approach on federal AI regulation, expanding on the AI Bill of Rights and NIST AI Risk Management Framework and focusing on the responsible development and...more

California Delete Act: An Aggressive New Approach to Regulating Data Brokers

Troutman Pepper Locke on 10/20/2023

On October 10, Governor Newsom signed the Delete Act ( SB 362) into law, which amends California's current data broker law to impose extensive additional disclosure and registration requirements on data brokers, and to...more

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Announces Sweeping Rulemaking for Companies That Collect and Furnish Personal Data

Jones Day on 8/28/2023

On August 15, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") announced it was launching a rulemaking aimed at subjecting any company or entity that collects and sells consumer data to the Fair Credit Reporting Act...more

Four Cybersecurity Law Issues for Financial Services to Track in 2023 | Insights

Venable LLP on 2/17/2023

The financial services sector must already contend with a maze of regulations in a variety of areas, and 2023 is poised to usher in new cybersecurity regulations for the industry. Organizations should ensure their security...more

Data Privacy in 2023: Expectations, Responsibilities & Cyber Security Tactics to Safeguard Your Information

J.S. Held on 2/9/2023

INTRODUCTION - As more of our lives and work become digitized, an inherent overlap continues to grow between data privacy and cyber security programs. Think of two similarly sized circles: in the past, data privacy and cyber...more

[Webcast Transcript] The State of US Privacy Law: What to Expect in 2023 and Beyond

HaystackID on 10/12/2022

Editor’s Note: On September 29, 2022, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on the topic of US privacy law. As privacy continues to move to the forefront of not only information consideration but of business concern for...more

What Fintech Companies Need to Know About Key Federal Privacy Requirements

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 7/29/2022

The financial technology (“Fintech”) industry has boomed over the last decade, from the rise of mobile payment apps, robo-advisers, lending platforms, consumer-friendly brokerages to cryptocurrency trading platforms. By their...more

Data Breach Class Actions: U.S. Supreme Court Decision May Tilt the Odds in Favor of Defendant Organizations

Blank Rome LLP on 8/4/2021

Corporate defendants besieged by proliferating bet-the-company privacy and consumer class action lawsuits recently scored a victory in the US Supreme Court with implications for data breach victims. Originally published in...more

2019 Year in Review for Financial Services Class Actions

BCLP on 3/9/2020

Focus areas included FCRA, Fair Lending, ancillary fees and services (such as lender placed flood insurance), TCPA, privacy and data security and other topics. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Director Kathleen...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

FCRA Claims Dismissed in Massive Equifax Data Breach Case

Womble Bond Dickinson on 3/7/2019

Yesterday, the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted a motion to dismiss FCRA claims in a case involving one of the largest data breaches in history....more

Compliance News Flash

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 8/20/2018

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is pleased to provide you with the Compliance News Flash. This weekly update is your source for timely background screening and immigration-related news that is important to your organization....more

California’s Consumer Privacy Act – The Beginning of a National Data Privacy Law?

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 7/5/2018

California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act on June 28, 2018. This law broadly expands the rights of California residents in their personal information collected through online means. The law imposes requirements...more

Governor Cuomo Mandates Compliance by Credit Reporting Agencies with Sweeping New Cybersecurity Requirements

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 7/3/2018

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued a final regulation that requires credit reporting agencies doing business in New York to register annually with the Department of Financial Services (DFS) and also to comply with...more

Latest Spokeo Decision Adds To The Growing Body Of Law Supporting Article III Standing For Cybersecurity Plaintiffs

Cozen O'Connor on 8/30/2017

We recently wrote about a decision in Attias v. CareFirst, Inc., holding that a class of plaintiffs whose information was compromised in a cyberattack had sufficiently demonstrated standing to survive a motion to dismiss. The...more

Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 13

Jones Day on 3/15/2017

On December 28, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS") released a revised version of a proposed regulation that would require banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions...more

Proposed Federal Cybersecurity Regulations for Financial Institutions Face an Uncertain Future

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 3/13/2017

Last year’s proposed comprehensive framework for cybersecurity rules for large financial institutions is suddenly facing an uncertain future. With the comment period having closed as of February 2017, the framework was facing...more

"Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - February 2017"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/3/2017

In this edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we look at a series of recent court rulings regarding standing in privacy cases, most of which suggest plaintiffs will continue to have a difficult time establishing...more

16 data breach class action lawsuits filed again 21st Century Oncology consolidated

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/13/2016

We previously reported that 21st Century Oncology suffered a data breach in October 2015 involving an intrusion into its systems which compromised around 2 million patients’ records, including their names, Social Security...more

Dual Decisions Provide Narrow Path for Plaintiffs to Establish Standing in Data Breach and Cybersecurity Suits

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 5/24/2016

Last week, decisions by the United States Supreme Court and the Northern District of Georgia provided further guidance regarding the narrow path required for a class action plaintiff to successfully establish Article III...more

2016 Data Breach Litigation Report

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner on 4/7/2016

Data security breaches – and data security breach litigation – dominated the headlines in 2015 and continue to do so in 2016. Continuous widely publicized breaches have led to 30,000 articles a month being published that...more

NAIC Adopts Cybersecurity Bill of Rights

BakerHostetler on 11/4/2015

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) continued its efforts to advance cybersecurity in the insurance industry when it recently adopted the Cybersecurity Bill of Rights. The Cybersecurity Bill of Rights...more

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