No Password Required: Founder and Commissioner of the US Cyber Games, CEO of the Cyber Marketing Firm Katzcy, and Someone Who Values Perseverance Over Perfection
Biometric Litigation
Founder of Cyber Security Unity, Member of the Order of the British Empire, and Appreciator of '80s Soap Operas
Illinois Supreme Court Clarifies BIPA Violation Accruals, Opening the Door for “Annihilative” Damage
No Password Required: The Custom T-Shirt-Wearing CEO Who Not Only Appreciates Mega Man ... He Basically Is One
Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth
Legislating Data Privacy Series: A Conversation with Massachusetts Representatives Dave Rogers and Andy Vargas
State Law Privacy Video Series | Privacy and Sensitive Information
Podcast: BIPA Trends in 2022
State Law Privacy Video Series | Applicability
Getting Personal—Wearable Devices, Data, and Compliance
Episode 8: Why brokers, not breaches, are America's greatest privacy threat (with Rob Shavell)
NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
Inside Privacy Law: The Regulation of Personal Data
NGE On Demand: Cybersecurity Considerations for Emerging Companies with Michael Gray and David Wheeler
Oklahoma: Changing Data Privacy as We Know It?
The Convergence of AI and Data Privacy in eDiscovery: Using AI and Analytics to Identify Personal Information
Reducing Cybersecurity Burdens with a Customized Data Breach Workflow
Sitting with the C-Suite: Looking Ahead to Potential Compliance Issues Due to COVID-19
Sitting with the C-Suite: Information Governance and eDiscovery - Key Compliance Issues for In-House Counsel
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 1 (January 2020) - ? A cybersecurity breach temporarily halted cancer radiation treatment services at the Cancer Center of Hawaii on Oahu,[1] the center said. The center, which provides...more
Transportation is often cited as one of the top barriers to health care for individuals in the United States. To reduce this burden and increase access to care, many health care providers are now partnering with ride-sharing...more
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (Florida Blue) has announced that 475 applications for insurance were backed up to the cloud, on an unsecured cloud server, by an unaffiliated agent of Real Time Health Quotes, and exposed...more
In the latest sign that data breach class actions are here to stay—and, indeed, growing—the D.C. Circuit resuscitated claims against health insurer CareFirst BlueCross and Blue Shield, following a 2015 breach that compromised...more
We have previously reported on the evolving circuit split over standing in data breach class actions. On August 1st, a three judge panel for the District of Columbia Circuit became the latest to weigh in on the issue. In...more
A federal appeals court earlier this week dealt a blow to healthcare insurer CareFirst, Inc., concluding that a group of customers have the right to pursue a class action data breach lawsuit based on a 2014 cyberattack....more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has reinstated a data breach class action filed against CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst). The lawsuit stems from a June 2014 data breach in which hackers infiltrated 22...more
Last week, the Third Circuit held that allegations of the unauthorized disclosure of personal information in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) constituted a de facto injury sufficient to confer standing at the...more
Newkirk Products Inc., which provides ID cards and management services for healthcare organizations, including multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations, has announced that it has discovered that its computer system was...more
The latest development in how American courts will handle the standing question for data breach class actions came last week when the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed for lack of standing a putative...more
Within days of Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shields’ (Excellus) announcement that its data had been accessed by a hacker through a “sophisticated” cyber-attack, two law firms teamed up to file a proposed class action suit last...more
Excellus, a BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS) provider servicing upstate New York, announced last week that it was the latest in a string of BCBS providers that experienced a data breach as a result of a cyberattack. CareFirst...more
Yesterday, Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, located in Rochester, NY, announced that it will notify up to 10 million members that it was the victim of a cyber-attack dating back to December of 2013 that exposed their members’...more
Not to be left out, plaintiffs filed suit against CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield late last week for the hacking incident the insurer suffered in May, which resulted in unknown intruders gaining access to names, dates of...more
Blue Shield of California is sending out notification letters to 843 of its members advising them that as a result of a computer code update it made to its website, when members logged into their own accounts, they were able...more
On May 20, 2015, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (“CareFirst”) announced that it was the latest victim of a major cyberattack, with as many as 1.1 million plan customers affected. Current and former CareFirst members and...more