No Password Required: Director and Cybersecurity Adviser at KPMG and Rain Culture Authority
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
In a notable development for corporate defendants grappling with consumer privacy litigation, the Southern District of New York has recently issued a decision in Lee v. Springer Nature America, Inc., embracing a broadened...more
Enacted in in 1988 after Judge Robert Bork’s video rental history was leaked by a store clerk and published in a newspaper profile about the Supreme Court nominee, the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) was the result of...more
CYBERSECURITY - FBI and DHS Warn of Russian Cyberattacks Against Critical Infrastructure - U.S. officials this week warned government agencies, cybersecurity personnel, and operators of critical infrastructure that...more
Texas enacted a biometric information privacy law way back in 2001, which was amended in 2009. That was a long time ago in the context of the development of privacy laws, and even longer when it comes to biometric information...more
I have written about the privacy concerns of facial recognition technology many times before. Many individuals are unaware of how facial recognition technology works, who is collecting their facial geometry, and how...more
The Facebook company now known as Meta announced this week that it is shutting down the Face Recognition system on Facebook. Meta stated that this is part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition...more
In one of the largest data privacy settlements ever, a California federal district court judge last week approved a $650 million settlement to be paid by Facebook to nearly 1.6 million Facebook users in Illinois. The...more
Today, Facial Recognition Technology Is Everywhere. As It Invades Every Aspect Of Our Lives, Shutdown Or Not, Technological Advances, News Coverage, And Legal Approaches Concerning Such Technology Continue To Expand And...more
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
Helpful Privacy Tips When Working from Home - It is a reasonably safe assumption that extended WFH will lead to increased TOSM (Time On Social Media). Unfortunately, when it comes to social media use protecting private...more
In the face of billions of dollars of potential liability at trial, social media giant, Facebook, opted for the finality of a class-wide settlement—to the tune of $550 million—reached with Illinois users complaining of...more
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
Facebook has agreed to pay $550 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit claiming that Zuck & Co.’s use of facial recognition technology violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law. Though the settlement is little more than “a...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s Opinion finding that Cambridge Analytica engaged in deceptive practices to harvest personal information closes another chapter in the Commission’s actions against Cambridge Analytica and its...more
The rapid adoption of biometric technology—designed to measure unique human biological characteristics, like fingerprints, voiceprints, and hand or face scans—has led to a surge of consumer class actions alleging violations...more
Facebook announced on September, 20th, that it has suspended tens of thousands of apps from interoperating with the Facebook platform alleging misuse of Facebook members’ personal data. This is a continuation of the Cambridge...more
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
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
In January 2019, we reported on the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision, Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp., where the highest court in Illinois unanimously found that an individual need not allege (or show) an actual...more
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
Big Picture Takeaways: Facebook faces many detailed requirements for internal and external governance and oversight with extensive reporting requirements...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Following an opinion by the Illinois Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit will discuss the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act issue — whether the Act requires class plaintiffs to show that they suffered actual harm...more
Going Deep on the California Consumer Privacy Act - The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been called the beginning of America’s GDPR. As the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States, entities doing...more
After 2018, companies may never view online data collection in the same way again. Just as the world was turning its attention to the importance of protecting individuals’ data privacy, Facebook stumbled into a series of...more
Last week, two Senators, Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts and Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding apps designed for children and whether they are in...more