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Class Action & MDL Roundup 2024 Q1 – Reaching Across the Pond

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Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This edition covers notable class actions from the first quarter of 2024. In this edition, UK High Court weighs in on information asymmetry, debit is better than credit,...more

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Minnesota Employment Legislative Update 2024, Part IV: The Aftermath of Minnesota’s Legislative Circus

May 20, 2024, marked the end of the legislative session for yet another historic and busy year for Minnesota’s legislature. Amidst endless shouting, a sprawling 1,400-plus-page omnibus bill, and ethical complaints, the...more

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United States House Members Introduce Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act

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Last month, Congressman Richard Hudson (R-NC), along with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), introduced legislation—the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act —banning the use of a Merchant...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

May 2023 UDAAP Bulletin

The following document provides a monthly roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission regarding...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Graduation Goods Settlement: A Good Reminder of AGs’ Data Security Priorities

The New York and Pennsylvania AGs settlement with Herff Jones from late last year provides guidance to businesses about expected security measures as we enter into 2023. The case arose after Herff Jones, producer and seller...more

McGlinchey Stafford

The New ‘Smart’ Car: An Introduction To Connected Car Payments

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The what: What are connected car payments? Connected car payments are a subset of connected car technology. Connected cars are vehicles with technology integrated into the user’s daily life that allow the vehicle to...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 4 - February 2021

“Just Send a Venmo!”…To a Collection Agency? As a result of COVID-19, many businesses are leery of handling cash, credit cards, or debit cards, and consumers feel concerned about using paper money and coins. It is...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

The Eleventh U.S. Circuit Wades into the Data-Breach-Standing Debate

Last week, in a 26-page opinion, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals weighed in on two questions crucial to the viability of privacy and data breach litigation in federal court—and perhaps even in general. First, does a...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2019 #4

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Security research firm Gigamon has reported that the nasty cybercriminal group FIN8 may have reappeared in June after a two-year silence. FIN8 is known for implementing malware on point of sale systems to steal credit card...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2019 #4

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LockerGoga Ransomware Hits Manufacturer and Chemical Companies - In the last two weeks, ransomware dubbed LockerGoga has attacked aluminum manufacturer Norsk Hydro, which announced that as a result of the attack, it had...more

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Consumer financial services: The road ahead: Payment processing

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The CFPB continued to be active in the consumer payments space in 2018, while the Federal Reserve and market participants considered the future of payment processing, including the development of faster payment systems....more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Retailers: Review Those Checkout Practices – Again

If you are a retailer with locations in New Jersey, you will need to review your procedures in anticipation of a new law effective October 1, 2017....more

Snell & Wilmer

Data Privacy Day? Yep, it’s a Thing.

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For a number of years now, January 28 has been marked as “Data Privacy Day” (or, for our European friends, “Data Protection Day”), and it is often overlooked observed in the United States, Canada, India and many European...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Over 3.1 Billion Records Breached So Far in 2016

The tally of records breached in 2016 (through November) globally was over 2.1 billion, according to IT Governance. With the announcement yesterday of Yahoo’s breach of another 1 billion records, that tally is now up to 3.1...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Uber class action case hits roadblock

A California federal judge has ruled that a former Uber driver who is suing Uber in a proposed class action case was unable to show that he suffers an immediate threat of identity theft and dismissed the driver’s first...more

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New PCI Guidance Provides Businesses With Security Incident Response Assistance

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A security event involving payment card data, especially card present data, can be one of the most costly events a company may face. Not only did a recent study report the average total cost of a data breach as $3.8 million,...more

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New Credit Card Security Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Hardly a week goes by without a news report of a new cyberattack. As any consumer affected by fraud knows, the harm is real. The impact on businesses, government, and other targets is also real, and includes monetary harm...more

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Federal Appeals Court Recognizes for the First Time the FTC’s Authority to Enforce Cybersecurity Practices

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On August 24, 2015, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a much-awaited decision in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, holding that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has authority to regulate “unfair” or “deceptive”...more

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New Potential Liability for Data Security: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Announces FTC has Authority to Scrutinize a...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit announced that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the authority to scrutinize a business’s data security protocol -- and to file a complaint if the FTC finds that protocol...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Privacy Tuesday – August 24, 2015 – FTC vs. Wyndham Update

Rather than our usual Privacy Monday “bits and bytes,” we have a breaking story relating to the ongoing Wyndham/FTC saga. Today, Wyndham Worldwide Corp. lost a critical round in the Third Circuit. Anticipated since...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Web.com Suffers Data Breach Affecting 93,000 Customers

The list of companies hit by cyber-attacks continues to grow.  This time, Florida-based web hosting company, Web.com, has announced that it suffered a data breach that may have compromised credit card information and other...more

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EMV Liability Shift Update – What Liability Actually Shifts?

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With the October 1, 2015 liability shift deadline looming, merchants who have not yet made the change continue to evaluate the cost of accepting EMV cards versus the liability that will shift from the issuer to the merchant...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Target and Visa reach $67M settlement

Visa, Inc. announced on August 18th that it has reached a settlement with Target for $67 million to reimburse Visa for costs associated with the Target data breach in late 2013, including issuing millions of new cards to...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Fred’s Inc. discloses data breach to SEC

In its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Fred’s Inc. disclosed this week that a security firm found malware in its system that was designed to lift customer credit card information....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - August 2015

Internet Cafes Lose a Bet With the California Supreme Court - In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court upheld an injunction against the operators of Internet cafes that offered “sweepstakes” games the Court...more

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