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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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Akin Intelligence - April 2025

On May 19, 2025, President Trump signed the bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act into law. The Act criminalizes the publication of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions of individuals, including AI-generated deepfakes. Threats to...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #445 – Apple Users: Update to iOS 18.5

Never underestimate an operating system update from any mobile phone manufacturer. This week, Apple issued iOS 18.5 which provides enhancements to the user experience, but also fixes bugs and flaws....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

State Data Minimization Laws Spark Compliance Uncertainty

A new wave of state consumer privacy laws focused on limiting data collection is creating anxiety among businesses—and Maryland is leading the charge. The Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), set to take effect in...more

Bennett Jones LLP

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

Fox Rothschild LLP

IRS Agrees to Share Taxpayer Return Info with ICE

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An agreement between the IRS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allows immigration officers to access certain taxpayer return information during criminal investigations. The move may raise concerns for...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Litigation Trend Alert: Breach of Contract and Warranty Claims Based on Privacy Policies

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A recent series of articles by the International Association of Privacy Professionals discusses a trend in privacy litigation focused on breach of contract and breach of warranty claims. Practical Takeaways- • Courts are...more

White & Case LLP

Unpacking the FTC’s COPPA Amendments: What You Need to Know

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On April 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its final amendments ("the Amendments") to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule in the Federal Register. The Amendments expand the...more

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Learn more about privacy violations and secret disclosure under the UAE.

In today's world, violations of individual privacy and secret disclosure are a serious problem. It may be eavesdropping, interception, recording, and the spreading of personal information without the consent of the other...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

California privacy agency issues two actions for non-compliance

On May 8, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) ordered a Florida-based data broker to pay a $46,000 fine for failing to register and pay an annual fee as required by the Delete Act. The CPPA noted that the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Ascension Notifies 430,000 Patients of Data Breach

Healthcare system Ascension has notified 437,329 patients of a data breach exposing “demographic information, such as name, address, phone number(s), email address, date of birth, race, gender, and Social Security numbers, as...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Employees Hiding Use of AI Tools at Work

A new study by Ivanti illustrates that one out of three workers secretly use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the workplace. They do so for varying reasons, including “I like a secret advantage,” “My job might be...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Updated Regulations: What’s Next?

This month, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board discussed updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) draft regulations related to cybersecurity audits, risk assessments, automatic decision-making...more

McAfee & Taft

Update: Changes to Oklahoma’s Security Breach Notification Act may soon become law

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On January 14, 2025, Sen. Brent Howard and Rep. John Pfeiffer introduced Senate Bill 626, which amends and updates Oklahoma’s Security Breach Notification Act, 24 Okla. Stat. § 161 et seq.  That Act currently requires that...more

Fisher Phillips

Clothing Retailer Faces Big Fines for CCPA Violations: A Wake-Up Call + An Action Plan for Businesses

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In a significant enforcement move, California’s consumer privacy regulator just ordered a national clothing retailer to pay a $345,178 fine to resolve alleged violations of the state’s privacy law. The California Privacy...more

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

The Big Long List of U.S. AI Laws

Below, we catalog certain current state laws regulating the development and use of AI systems and technologies passed between 2019 and 2025. This list focuses on legislative initiatives that have passed and are in effect or...more

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Tennessee, Minnesota, and Maryland Comprehensive Privacy Laws Coming Online Quickly

As summer approaches, three new state comprehensive privacy laws are poised to take effect, raising the number of states with effective comprehensive privacy legislation in the US to sixteen (with more to come in 2026). The...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Massachusetts Court Grants Motion to Dismiss "Spy Pixel” Privacy Class Action for Lack of Standing

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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

Latham & Watkins LLP

FTC Publishes Updates to COPPA Rule

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The first updates to the COPPA Rule since 2013 impose new obligations for sharing children’s personal information with third parties. On April 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) published the final...more

Bennett Jones LLP

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

Maynard Nexsen

Michigan AG Sues Roku Under Multiple Privacy Regulatory Schemes

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On April 29, 2025, the Michigan Attorney General filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Michigan against Roku on multiple grounds, alleging violations of: (a) the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and (b)...more

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FTC Finalizes Amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule

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On April 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") published the finalized amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") Rule (the "Rule"), marking the first major update since 2013....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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