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VPPA Trends: Considerations for Limiting Exposure

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In recent months, organizations have been dealing with an emerging wave of lawsuits from an unexpected source: the VPPA. The Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), originally intended to prevent “wrongful disclosures” of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] 2020 CCPA Litigation Report – Analyzing the First Year of Litigation

In this episode, Akin Gump cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice co-heads Natasha Kohne and Michelle Reed, and counsel Molly Whitman discuss the firm’s new 2020 CCPA Litigation Annual Report and its...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Best Practices for Responding to Subpoenas That Conflict With Foreign Data Privacy Laws

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Companies who do business in the United States and have documents located abroad must understand the potential conflicts between the broad extraterritorial discovery authorized by U.S. courts, and the major restrictions on...more

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Data Breach Litigation Preparation: What U.S. Laws Apply to Data Breaches?

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As of January 1, 2020, California became the first state to permit residents whose personal information is exposed in a data breach to seek statutory damages between $100-$750 per incident, even in the absence of any actual...more

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[Event] 2019 Trial Advocacy Seminar: Back to Justice - October 14th, Minneapolis, MN

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The future is now. Artificial intelligence is all around us, from our homes to our workplaces to our hospitals. Automobiles drive themselves. Wearable devices track our every move and measure our health. Our genetic code can...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Exploring the New California Consumer Privacy Act’s Unusual Class Action Cure Provision

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect on January 1, 2020, and applies to all companies that do business in the Golden State. The new act is California’s rejoinder to Europe’s General Data Protection...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Illinois Appellate Court Finds Non-Injured Plaintiffs Lack Standing To Pursue Claims For Technical Violations Of State Consumer...

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In Maglio v. Advocate Health and Hosps. Corp., 2015 IL App (2d) 140782-U (Ill. App. Ct. June 2, 2015), the Illinois Appellate Court was asked to decide whether individuals have standing to bring suit for violations of...more

Troutman Pepper

Lack of Typicality and Adequacy of Representation Prevents Class Certification in Health Care Data Breach

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The opinion from the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas reinforces lack of standing as a defense for companies facing data breach–related class actions. On March 25, the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas provided...more

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BakerHostetler Partner Paul Karlsgodt Discusses Privacy Class Actions

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Paul Karlsgodt, Leader of BakerHostetler's Class Action Defense team, talks about class actions privacy and litigation issues....more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Third Circuit Clarifies Its Ascertainability Standard

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Ascertainability is an implied requirement for class certification, not expressly addressed in Fed. R. Civ. P. 23. While there are different formulations of the requirement, in essence it requires that there be an adequate...more

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