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Customer Data Privacy: Why It’s Important and How to Protect It

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Data privacy regulations aren’t known for being light reading. That doesn’t make it easy for businesses to become compliant. When one law refers to data subjects, another to residents, another to consumers, and another...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Blakes Data Governor: Summer 2025

Welcome to the Summer 2025 issue of Blakes Data Governor, published by the Blakes Privacy & Data Protection group. Blakes Data Governor provides actionable insights and practical overviews of recent developments impacting...more

Alston & Bird

Data Breach Data Reviews: Challenges and What You Need to Know

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Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team discusses how to overcome five challenges companies face in the wake of a data security incident when reviewing impacted data to comply with legal obligations....more

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23andMe's Data Breach: Key Takeaways

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On June 17, 2025, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) released a summary of its investigation findings regarding a data breach at 23andMe, which affected nearly seven million customers, including...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Why Dumping Sensitive Data on Network Shares is a Liability

Are you storing sensitive data on a shared network drive? If so, your organization could be at serious risk of a data breach or privacy lawsuit. Shared drives, like the common “S:\ drive,” are often used to store documents,...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

New Serious Invasion of Privacy Tort in Australia for Privacy Comes Into Effect

In late 2024, the Australian Government enacted a series of reforms to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The new statutory tort for serious invasion of privacy was introduced and passed under the Privacy and Other Legislation...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

State Data Breach Notification Laws - June 2025

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While most state data breach notification statutes contain similar components, there are important differences, meaning a one-size-fits-all approach to notification will not suffice. What’s more, as data breaches continue to...more

DLA Piper

Italy: The Garante Issues First GDPR Fine Over Employees Email Metadata Privacy Breach

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The Italian Data Protection Authority (the Garante) has issued its first GDPR fine for, among other breaches, unlawful retention of metadata from employees’ emails and web browsing activities. The decision applies, for the...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

La Cour d’appel de la Colombie-Britannique confirme l’octroi de dommages-intérêts pour atteinte à la vie privée sans preuve de...

Le 23 avril 2025, dans l’affaire Insurance Corporation of British Columbia v. Ari (décision disponible uniquement en anglais), la Cour d’appel de la Colombie-Britannique (la « CACB ») a confirmé une décision de première...more

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Legal Uncertainty for Database Defendants? Appeal Courts Assess Privacy Causes of Action With Varying Outcomes

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The past year has introduced some uncertainty for institutional defendants facing privacy breach class actions in Canada. While Ontario’s Court of Appeal has been consistent in its approach to class actions against “database...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Data Breach Lawsuits Surge Against Chord Specialty Dental Partners

Pennsylvania-based Chord Specialty Dental Partners is under fire after a September 2024 data breach compromised the personal information of over 173,000 individuals. At least seven proposed class action lawsuits have been...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

AI Service Provider Faces Class Actions Over Catholic Health Data Breach

AI service provider Serviceaide Inc. faces two proposed class action lawsuits from a data breach tied to Catholic Health System Inc., a nonprofit hospital network in Buffalo, New York. The breach reportedly exposed the...more

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23andMe and the Role of Privacy in Bankruptcy Law

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There is nothing more inherently unique and personal to an individual than his or her DNA. Unlike many other types of personal information, a person’s DNA is immutable. It can be the key to unlocking extremely sensitive...more

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The Digital Download – Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Newsletter – May 2025

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Selected U.S. Privacy & Cyber Updates - DOJ Settles False Claims Act Case with MORSECORP over Cybersecurity Program - On March 26, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had reached an agreement with...more

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Data Spring Cleaning: Minimize Your Liability

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When we are retained by clients to guide them through a cyber-attack in which information has been stolen by a threat actor, we almost always find that the client has unnecessarily stored sensitive information far beyond the...more

Blank Rome LLP

The BR Privacy & Security Download: May 2025

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Welcome to this month’s issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security, & Data Protection practice. We invite you to share this resource with your colleagues and visit...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Show Me the Money: B.C. Court of Appeal Affirms Privacy Breach Damages Without Proof of Consequential Loss

On April 23, 2025, in Insurance Corporation of British Columbia v. Ari, the British Columbia Court of Appeal affirmed a class action judgment awarding aggregate damages of C$15,000 per class member without proof of...more

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Tracking Technology Trouble: Shah v. Capital One Deepens Legal Risk Under CCPA and CIPA

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In Shah v. Capital One Financial Corporation, the Northern District of California handed down a ruling that may shape the trajectory of litigation involving tracking technologies, online privacy policies, and California’s...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Protection de la vie privée au Canada : Nouvel outil d’autoévaluation des risques d’atteinte à la vie privée

Le 26 mars 2025, le Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada (le « CPVP ») a déployé, à l’intention des organisations, un outil d’autoévaluation du risque réel de préjudice grave à la vie privée (l’« outil »)....more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Privacy Commissioner of Canada Releases Privacy Breach Risk Assessment Tool

On March 26, 2025, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) released a privacy breach real risk of significant harm assessment tool (Tool) for organizations....more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 4, April 2025

Welcome to our fourth issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy this issue and thank you for reading. Sector by Sector: How Data Breaches are Wrecking Bottom Lines - “Data...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Courts Reject Theoretical Privacy Violations Due to Lack of Standing

Courts across the country are becoming skeptical of data breach and web tracking claims that assert theoretical privacy violations without alleging any actual injury to the plaintiffs. Recent decisions underscore that courts...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Florida Bar Urges Law Firms to Adopt Incident Response Plans: A Call to Action for Legal Professionals

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In late March 2025, the Florida Bar Board of Governors unanimously endorsed the recommendation of its Special Committee on Cybersecurity and Privacy Law that law firms should adopt written incident response plans (IRPs) to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - June 9th - 12th, Pittsburgh, PA

HCCA's Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy is a three-and-a-half-day interactive education program with a focus on the vast body of privacy laws and regulations in place to help you protect PHI and other critical data. Our...more

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Cybersecurity Best Practices for AI-Powered Robotics Under State and Federal Privacy Laws

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As robotics technology rapidly advances in connection with the use of artificial intelligence (AI), the collection, processing, and storage of personal information—including biometric data—will become increasingly common....more

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