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Business Court Assesses Duties to Protect Patient Information Shared Through Electronic Portals

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A Durham County class action asks whether “My Chart,” a widely used portal that medical providers use to communicate with patients about test results, conditions, and treatments should more aptly be labeled “Our Chart.”...more

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Year in Review: 2024 BIPA Litigation Takeaways

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Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) continues to drive a wave of privacy-related litigation across the United States, though a 2024 amendment to the act—the first since BIPA’s enactment in 2008—may slow the...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

EU Court Awards Damages for Breach of EU Data Transfer Rules

On January 8, 2025, the second highest court of the European Union (EU), the General Court of the Court of Justice of the EU (the Court), ordered (in Bindl v European Commission, Case T-354/22) the European Commission (EC) to...more

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Increasing insider threats and the importance of AI governance

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China’s ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is seeking USD1.1 million in damages from a former intern accused of sabotaging its artificial intelligence (AI) large language model training infrastructure....more

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First Tranche of Australia's Much Anticipated Privacy Law Reforms Revealed

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The first wave of Australia's expansive privacy law reforms has been introduced into Federal Parliament in the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 (Cth) ("Bill")....more

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Inundated With Requests Under New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law? 

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A flood of class action lawsuits have been filed against companies alleging violations of New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law. The statute – enacted after the son of a New Jersey federal judge was fatally shot by a disgruntled lawyer –...more

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Restitutio in Integrum

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A Fresh Perspective on Data Protection and Damages - Opening statements by Peter Hense at a University of Vienna panel titled "EU Future Talks, Non-Material Damages for GDPR Violations: Quo Vadis Österreichische Post...more

Butler Snow LLP

White House Guidance on Ransomware

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Ransomware has become the fastest growing type of cybercrime facing businesses today. In 2021, loss values were estimated to have reached at least 57 times those in 2015, exceeding $20 billion. Data and privacy issues are so...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Data Privacy Fines and Damages “Double Jeopardy”: UK Supreme Court Hears Google “Class Action”

his week sees a key hearing before the UK Supreme Court in the case of Lloyd v Google, an event long awaited by those familiar with data protection law proceedings in Europe. The case concerns the so-called “safari...more

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Why the Connection Between Biometric Data and eDiscovery Will Continue to Grow

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Everyone has been talking about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) lately, namely because the 2018 law became enforceable as of July 1, 2020. This law provides California consumers with a number of privacy-related...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

New York Expands Data Privacy Protections

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New York continued its active legislative session last week, this time by expanding its data breach notification law. The SHIELD Act (Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security), signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on July...more

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Data Breaches Prove Costly for Major Businesses

In an age where data is widely available and almost everything is stored online, data breaches are becoming more common, and the outcomes of cases involving data breaches are unpredictable. Data involved in a breach can range...more

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Florida’s CADRA a Powerful New Data Protection

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Florida businesses will soon have an important and powerful new legal cause of action to combat unauthorized access to protected computer systems or data by employees, former employees, directors, officers, and others....more

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