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G&G Closed Circuit Events litigation overview

Vondran Legal on 8/28/2024

Restaurant, bar, club and tavern owners around the United States need to make sure they are properly licensing boxing fights for commercial usage before broadcasting the fight in their establishments. There are several...more

Business Account Takeover Fraud: Pursuing the Platform Is Rarely the Answer

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 6/17/2024

Business account takeover (“ATO”) fraud occurs where a threat actor gains access to a business account on a payments platform (e.g., a payroll or accounts payable tool) or fraudulently creates such an account and engages in...more

OCR Issues Guidance to Patients and Providers on Telehealth Privacy and Security

Ankura on 11/30/2023

On October 18, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued an update1 containing two resource documents to help educate patients regarding privacy and security...more

SEC Recordkeeping v. Privacy: Recent Opinion Stirs Debate

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/27/2023

In 2018, an investment professional sued the firm he co-founded for wrongful termination and federal privacy law violations associated with the former employer’s remote accessing into a desktop computer it had purchased for...more

Data Scraping Update: ‘LinkedIn v. hiQ’ Answers Some Questions but Leaves Many More Open

Polsinelli on 3/9/2023

2022 provided companies with further clarity and insight regarding legal claims that might be viable to stop data (or web) scraping and those that likely won’t work. Data scraping continues to become an increasingly popular...more

Relief for White Hat Hackers and Web Scrapers?

McDermott Will & Emery on 5/26/2022

In an effort to “promote privacy and cybersecurity by upholding the legal right of individuals, network owners, operators, and other persons to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information stored in...more

DOJ Revises Policy for CFAA Prosecution to Reflect Developments in Web Scraping and Other Matters

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 5/25/2022

On May 19, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had revised its policy regarding prosecution under the federal anti-hacking statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Since the DOJ last made changes...more

Top 5 Cyber Security Threats the Manufacturing Industry Should Watch in 2022

Amundsen Davis LLC on 2/24/2022

Companies continue to see headlines about cyberattacks, but manufacturing companies, specifically, have become more targeted in the last few years. In the most recent issue of The Illinois Manufacturer, Molly Arranz and Sofia...more

German Court grants non-material GDPR damages following data breach

Hogan Lovells on 2/2/2022

In a recent judgment, the District Court Munich I granted a data subject compensation under Article 82 GDPR for non-material damages suffered as a result of an unauthorized third-party access to the subject's personal data....more

TSA Rail Cybersecurity Directives Show Increasing Government Regulation of Critical Infrastructure and the Private Sector

Wiley Rein LLP on 12/6/2021

What: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued two Security Directives aimed at passenger and freight railroad cybersecurity, continuing the government’s move to an increasingly regulatory approach to...more

The Federal Government Is Cracking Down on Cybercrime

Oberheiden P.C. on 11/9/2021

Cybercrime has been on the rise in recent years. In response, the federal government has shown an increased interest in prosecuting cybercrime offenses. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. Section 1030, is...more

NJ Infertility Clinic Reaches $495,000 Data Breach Settlement

Rivkin Radler LLP on 10/20/2021

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced on October 12 that Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause, LLC, based in Millburn, NJ, will pay a $495,000 penalty for allegedly violating HIPAA and state law by...more

Defending Against Federal Computer Crime Charges Under 18 U.S.C. Section 1030

Oberheiden P.C. on 9/1/2021

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), codified at 18 U.S.C. Section 1030, is one of the U.S. Department of Justice’s most potent weapons in its fight against cybercrimes. It outlines numerous offenses, and it imposes...more

SCOTUS: Accessing Private Database for Improper Purpose Not Violation of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

ArentFox Schiff on 7/20/2021

SCOTUS: Accessing Private Database for Improper Purpose Not Violation of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In a recent Supreme Court case, Van Buren v. United States, the Court narrowed the applicability of the Computer Fraud...more

June 2021: The Top 19 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 7/7/2021

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Now Provides Less Protection From Insider Threats. Here’s What Employers Need To Be Doing.

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 7/1/2021

Because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act has become less protective of employers’ rights to be free from theft or sabotage by employees and others with access to those...more

Supreme Court Decision on Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Implications for Cybersecurity and Insider Threat Programs

King & Spalding on 6/25/2021

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court issued its first major decision on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) in Van Buren v. United States. The decision has significant implications for how organizations protect...more

Facebook Brings Suit against Developers of a Browser Extension That Harvested User Data

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 10/5/2020

In continuing its efforts to enforce its terms and policies against developers that engage in unauthorized scraping of user data, this week Facebook brought suit against two marketing analytics firms, BrandTotal Ltd...more

Facebook Brings Suit against Mobile Marketing Firm for Siphoning User Data without Authorization

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 3/10/2020

In continuing its push to enforce its terms and policies against developers that engage in unauthorized collection or scraping of user data, Facebook brought suit last month against mobile marketing and data analytics firm...more

SCOTUS Will Not Review CFAA Password Sharing Case

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 11/14/2017

The United State Supreme Court recently denied certiorari in Nosal v. United States, 16-1344, declining to weigh in on the scope of unauthorized access under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”). The Ninth Circuit held...more

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Password-Sharing Case, Leaving Scope of Criminal Liability Under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/16/2017

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in Nosal v. United States, 16-1344. Nosal asked the Court to determine whether a person violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act’s prohibition...more

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