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California Court Rejects Attempt to Expand Third-Party Eavesdropping Claims to Internet Communications: How Your Business Can...

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Businesses just received some good news when a federal court dismissed a California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) claim that aimed to expand the reach of the state’s wiretapping law to cover internet communications. The...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

U.S. Privacy Litigation Update: Holiday Edition (October, November, & December 2024)

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Welcome to the nineteenth installment in our monthly data privacy litigation report. We prepare these reports to provide updates on how courts in the United States have handled emerging data privacy trends. We are covering...more

Perkins Coie

$228M Verdict in First Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act Trial

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After a five-day trial and only an hour of deliberation, the nation’s first trial under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) ended with a bang. The jury found that the defendant, BNSF Railway Company,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Are You a “Hybrid Entity” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996? The $4,348,000 Question

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A single, multidisciplinary entity, like a university, may include certain departments that use PHI, and other departments that do not. Such institutions are eligible to (and should) self-identify as “hybrid entities” to...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Summary Judgment: Recent HIPAA Case Emphasizes Encryption, Action on Risk Analysis - AHLA Health Information and Technology...

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On June 18, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that an HHS Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) granted summary judgment to OCR in an enforcement action...more

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Financial Services Weekly Roundup - July 2018 #2

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Editor's Note - In This Issue. California enacted a new data privacy law; the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a risk alert highlighting deficiencies observed in recent examinations of...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Facebook Granted Dismissal of Biometric Privacy Claims Brought by “Non-Users”

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This week, the District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the Gullen putative class action asserting Illinois biometric privacy claims brought by “non-users” based on evidence that the social media site...more

Nossaman LLP

Ninth Circuit Issues Two Recent Decisions Further Definining Liability Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

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In July, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued two decisions by which it intends to clarify liability under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (“CFAA”). The CFAA imposes criminal penalties and...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Massachusetts Appeals Court Set to Consider Scope of Employer Liability for Employee Data Breaches

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Many of the highest-profile and headline-catching data breaches involve external breaches of a company’s electronic systems. But the reality that these headlines obscure is the fact that internal data breaches are generally...more

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