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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

District court denies plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction to block DOGE from accessing Treasury payment systems

On March 7, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent DOGE from accessing Treasury payment records containing confidential personal information. The court...more

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Collecting IP Addresses? “Not An Invasion of Privacy,” Says New York Federal Court in CIPA Pen-Register Action

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On February 18, 2025, US District Judge Edgardo Ramos of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss against a plaintiff bringing claims under California...more

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Illinois Supreme Court: Increased Risk of Harm Arising from a Data Breach Is Insufficient to Confer Standing

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On January 24, 2025, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in Petta v. Christie Business Holding Co., P.C., 2025 IL 130337, that a patient who alleged an increased risk of harm arising from a data breach at a medical clinic did...more

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Defending Data Breach Class Actions

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Class actions arising from data breach represented the fastest growing segment of class action filings. In 2023, more than 2000 class actions were filed, more than triple the amount filed in 2022. These cases were filed in...more

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More Businesses Using Biometric Data Means More Regulation

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Biometric data continues to take up a massive amount of space in the digital universe. Fingerprints, facial scans, and voice recognition are staples of modern devices and are regularly integrated into business models....more

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Jones Day Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update | Vol. 28

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UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - President Biden Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order  - On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order that placed new standards on the...more

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Privacy Update: Corporate Boards - Don’t Underestimate Your Role in Data Security Oversight

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to put emphasis on the importance of corporate board involvement in privacy and data security. Corporate Boards: Don’t Underestimate Your Role in Data Security Oversight - The...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Judge Finds No Article III Standing in Proposed Class Action Against Marriott

The question of standing has proven to be a tricky one in data breach litigation. Last week a federal district court in Maryland rejected a proposed class action brought by Marriott guests related to a data breach suffered by...more

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Dismissal Of Marriott Data Breach Lawsuit Shows How Plaintiffs Still Face Standing Hurdles In The Post-CCPA Era

After the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect on January 1, 2020, a surge of class action lawsuits predicated on alleged CCPA violations hit businesses.  Because of the act’s novelty, it was unclear whether...more

Blank Rome LLP

Designing a BIPA Defense: Using Preemption and Arbitration to Defeat Biometric Class Actions

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Since the Illinois Supreme Court issued its seminal decision in Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp. in the beginning of 2019, companies using fingerprint scanners and other biometric technologies have faced a...more

International Lawyers Network

Recent Updates In Personal Data Regulation In Russia

THE SUPREME COURT CONFIRMED THAT RUSSIAN USERS MAY FILE A LAWSUIT AGAINST AN AMERICAN SOCIAL NETWORK TO A RUSSIAN COURT - The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation reviewed a case initiated by a number of Internet users...more

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Seventh Circuit Says Employers Can Be Sued in Federal Court for BIPA Violations

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In what some are calling a “bombshell” decision, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in Bryant v. Compass Group USA, Inc. that federal courts can now hear cases involving alleged violations of the Illinois...more

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Seventh Circuit Bolsters Article III Standing for Actions Under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

On May 5, 2020, the Seventh Circuit held in Bryant v. Compass Group USA, Inc. that a plaintiff who asserted a violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act’s (“BIPA’s”) notice and consent requirements had...more

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Plaintiffs Push For Preliminary Approval Of $550 Million Settlement In Facebook Privacy Class Action

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Plaintiffs’ lawyers reached a landmark $550 million settlement in January 2020 in a lawsuit against Facebook by consumers in a class action brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (the...more

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“Untagging” From Photo Privacy Lawsuit: Facebook Settles Its Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Litigation For $550 Million

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 29, 2020, Facebook announced that it had reached a settlement with plaintiffs in a class action brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (the “BIPA”) in the U.S. District...more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms Certification of Class Alleging Biometric Privacy Violations

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The Ninth Circuit has issued its much-anticipated decision in a class action against Facebook involving alleged biometric privacy violations, affirming certification of a class. In Patel v. Facebook, the Northern District of...more

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Facebook “Tagged” in Certified Facial Scanning Class Action

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Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an Illinois class of Facebook users can pursue a class action lawsuit arising out of Facebook’s use of facial scanning technology....more

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Finding Article III Standing, Ninth Circuit Declines to Do an About-Face in Illinois Biometric Privacy Class Action against...

In an important opinion, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that plaintiffs in the ongoing Facebook biometric privacy class action have alleged a concrete injury-in-fact to confer Article III standing and that...more

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How Broad Is the Scope of the CCPA's Standing Provision Under Section 1798.150(a)(1)?

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Once the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect on January 1, 2020, the California courts will be inundated with a litany of interpretive questions. One that will no doubt surface concerns the proper...more

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Privacy and Data Security Alert | June 2019 #2

Maine Bill Requires ISPs to Obtain Opt-In Consent from Customers - The Maine legislature has passed a bill that requires internet service providers (ISPs) operating in Maine to obtain express, affirmative consent from...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Risk of Using Fingerprints: Illinois Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling Interpreting the Illinois Biometric Information...

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In its first ever ruling concerning the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), Illinois Supreme Court held that a person need not have sustained actual damage beyond technical violations of BIPA in order to...more

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Lawsuit Under Biometric Law Does Not Require Harm

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In a unanimous decision, the Illinois Supreme Court found that a Six Flags pass holder had a valid claim as an “aggrieved person” under the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act of 2008 (“BIPA”), hence having the right to bring an...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Roller Coaster Start to the New Year for Biometrics: Rosenbach v. Six Flags and Emerging Biometric Laws

A recent decision from the Supreme Court of Illinois heightens the risks faced by companies collecting biometric information by holding that an individual who is the subject of a violation of Illinois’ Biometric Information...more

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Supreme Court of Illinois Expands Grounds for Standing in Privacy Suits

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As the number and scale of cases involving the theft or loss of personal information grows, so does the number of plaintiffs filing suit as a result. One of the most difficult hurdles for these plaintiffs to clear is the...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Finds No Actual Harm Needed to Sue Under State’s Biometric Privacy Statute

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The Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (740 ILCS 14/1 et seq.) (BIPA) requires that companies obtain written consent and disclose how they collect, retain, disclose and destroy biometric identifiers such as retina or...more

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