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German court rules Facebook illegally harvested data

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 14 (July 23, 2020) - Germany’s top court reversed a decision by an appeals court, stating that there is no doubt that Facebook enjoys a dominant position in the market and also no...more

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Recent Updates In Personal Data Regulation In Russia

THE SUPREME COURT CONFIRMED THAT RUSSIAN USERS MAY FILE A LAWSUIT AGAINST AN AMERICAN SOCIAL NETWORK TO A RUSSIAN COURT - The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation reviewed a case initiated by a number of Internet users...more

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UK Court of Appeal rules against Google

Report on Supply Chain Compliance, Volume 2, no. 19 (October 10, 2019) - A case involving the “Safari Workaround”[1] has made its way through the U.K. courts over the past 18 months and has recently been allowed to proceed....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Illinois Supreme Court Adopts Expansive Interpretation of Standing under Illinois BIPA, Potentially Opening the Flood Gates for...

In a much-anticipated ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court recently held that allegations of actual injury are not required to seek damages under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA or the Act). The case is...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Clears Path For More Biometric Data Privacy Lawsuits

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The Illinois Supreme Court on January 25th, made it far easier for workers to bring suit against their employers for technical violations of the state’s biometric information privacy statute, putting employers on notice that...more

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“No Harm, Still Foul”: Actual Harm Not Required for Plaintiffs Under Illinois Biometric Privacy Act

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In a highly anticipated decision under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the Illinois Second District Appellate Court, holding that plaintiffs need not “plead and...more

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Pennsylvania High Court’s Dittman Ruling Makes It Harder To Dismiss Data Breach Actions

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that employers have “a legal duty to safeguard” the personal data of their employees which is stored on internet-accessible computer systems and that the economic loss doctrine...more

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Employers Have an Affirmative Duty to Protect Workers’ Personal Data from Cybercriminals:...

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In a landmark decision with far-reaching implication, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that employers have an affirmative duty to protect their employees’ personal information from criminal hacking. In particular,...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Brazil's new data protection regulation, the French data protection authority's warning to two companies of potential GDPR violations and the U.S....more

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Peer Review Not Protected: U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Disturb Florida Decision Limiting the Patient Safety and Quality...

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A multi-year discovery dispute regarding the adverse medical incident reports of a Jacksonville, Florida hospital concluded on October 2, 2017 when the United States Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in...more

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First Circuit Opens New World of Potential Liability for Video Producers

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You may be too young for this to have been a big thing to you, but almost 30 years ago, D.C. Circuit Judge Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court, and Washington, D.C. went into a tizzy. Coming as it did just a year...more

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