The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 14: The Pig Around the Corner: Privacy and Trade with Constantine Karbaliotis of nNovation LLP
2025 Privacy Law Preview: Be Prepared
Navigating State Privacy Laws
[Webinar] You Are Here: First Steps in Data Mapping
Caregivers in Cybersecurity — Unauthorized Access Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: California's Upcoming Cyber Audit and Automated Tech Rules - Employment Law This Week®
Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
Podcast: Data Privacy and Info Security in Finance: The Lay of the Land [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 52]
2023 New Data Privacy Requirements
Guidepost in Motion EP27: Privacy Matters Part 2: “TMI”-The Privacy Dilemma of Social Media
Webinar Recording – Assessing the Surge in Wiretap Litigation
2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: Class Action Jurisprudence
Interview With Ayesha Minhaj, Google - Digital Planning Podcast
Colorado’s New Comprehensive Privacy Law
#WorkforceWednesday: 2020 in Review and What's to Come in 2021
Sitting with the C-Suite: How Do Corporations Manage the Convergence of Data during Remote Work?
On-Demand Webinar | Protecting Information in a Work-From-Home World
When a court begins its order denying class certification by lamenting the “failure to properly vet named plaintiffs” and “seeming unwillingness to promptly address issues that arise during litigation with named plaintiffs”...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a pivotal ruling that is likely to reshape privacy litigation for e-commerce platforms. In Briskin v. Shopify, Inc., the Court held that Shopify, despite being...more
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
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
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
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
On January 31, 2025, in Campos v. TJX Companies, Inc., No. 24-cv-11067, the District of Massachusetts granted a motion to dismiss a class action due to the plaintiff’s lack of standing. The court concluded that the named...more
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
Earlier this year, the IRS confirmed that over 400,000 taxpayers were victims of IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn’s 2019 leak of taxpayer data, which is discussed here. Littlejohn stole IRS data that included taxpayers’...more
Two recent decisions from the Northern District of California—Shah v. Capital One Financial Corp., No. 24-cv-05985-TLT, 2025 WL 714252 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 3, 2025), and M.G. v. Therapymatch, Inc., No. 23-cv-04422-AMO, 2024 WL...more
On March 3, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant ruling that has the potential to broaden the risk of liability under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...more
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Topics that we often discuss on this blog are the use of third-party tracking tools and the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”). Less discussed of late, however, is the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) which,...more
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On March 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed against the education technology (EdTech) company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a popular learning management system. The complaint alleges that Instructure...more
California Cryobank, LLC, the largest sperm bank in the country, faces a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California over an April 2024 data breach. Cryobank provides frozen donor sperm and...more
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An insured who purchased insurance specifically for privacy injury liability was recently forced to sue its insurer after it denied coverage. The insured allegedly “installed web beacons and cookies on its platforms so that...more
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