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Tracking Technology Trouble: Shah v. Capital One Deepens Legal Risk Under CCPA and CIPA

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In Shah v. Capital One Financial Corporation, the Northern District of California handed down a ruling that may shape the trajectory of litigation involving tracking technologies, online privacy policies, and California’s...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Courts Reject Theoretical Privacy Violations Due to Lack of Standing

Courts across the country are becoming skeptical of data breach and web tracking claims that assert theoretical privacy violations without alleging any actual injury to the plaintiffs. Recent decisions underscore that courts...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

District Court Rulings Could Signal Expansion of California Consumer Privacy Right of Action

In two recent rulings, judges in the U.S. Northern District of California have allowed proposed class actions under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to proceed without an allegation of a data breach, departing from...more

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Tips for Vacation Rental, Property Mgmt. Businesses Facing Vendor Cybersecurity Risk

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No organization can eliminate data breach risks altogether, regardless of industry, size, or even if the organization has taken significant steps to safeguard their systems and train employees to avoid phishing attacks....more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

FTC amendments to Health Breach Notification Rule are now in effect

On April 24, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had finalized changes to its Health Breach Notification Rule - to address emerging technologies. Specifically, the Rule was broadened to (1) apply to entities not...more

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Disclosure of Data Through Website Cookies May Be a Data Breach – What A Recent Court Ruling Means for Healthcare Businesses

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A California federal court recently ruled that disclosure of certain data collected through website cookies that may qualify as health information could trigger a data breach under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) –...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CrowdStrike Customers Targeted by Threat Actors Using Fake Help Websites

If you are a customer of CrowdStrike, you are working on recovering from the outage that occurred on July 19, 2024. As if that isn’t enough disruption, CrowdStrike is warning customers that threat actors are taking advantage...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: July 2024

Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System said it experienced a breach impacting more than 1.27 million patients when a former employee of vendor Nuance Communications Inc., a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, accessed patient...more

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Paul Hastings Hosts Panel on Perspectives from Cybersecurity Regulators

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On May 8, 2024, Paul Hastings Hosted the Cybersecurity Law Workshop at this spring’s Privacy + Security Forum with a panel on perspectives from cybersecurity regulators. The panel was moderated by Paul Hastings Global Chair...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: May 2024

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more

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FTC Vastly Expands Reach of the Health Breach Notification Rule

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On April 26, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its final rule (Final Rule) making changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR)....more

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The 2024 ESI Risk Management & Litigation Readiness Report

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New study finds legal departments struggling to manage electronically stored information (ESI), resulting in delays and fines. Review the key findings from the 2024 ESI Risk Management & Litigation Readiness Report....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

A Measured Approach - US Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Review and Update: Looking back on our 2023 articles and planning ahead...

Technological advances, especially in Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing, will continue to amaze in the coming years. They will open up vast new opportunities while presenting profound regulatory, litigation, and...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ninth Circuit Opinion Supports Personal Jurisdiction Defense for Interactive Websites

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With so many companies being hauled into court in California based on claims that the functionalities on their website and use of service providers for marketing or analytics purposes violate consumer privacy rights, it is...more

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Privacy Points 2024: Recap and What to Watch For in 2024

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Last year proved to be a big year in data protection with U.S. state data protection laws popping up across the country, the FTC updating its guidance and regulations on everything from data breaches and biometric...more

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Q2 - 2023: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Quarterly Briefing

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Efforts to Address the Lack of Federal Data Privacy Legislation in the U.S. Have Continued - The need for federal data privacy legislation was reiterated in the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: April 2023

Personal information from federal lawmakers and congressional staff members was available on the dark web following a breach of DC Health Link, the health insurance marketplace for Washington, D.C. In an internal memo sent to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

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More Privacy, Please - January 2023

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Editor’s Note: In regulatory news, the Colorado AG published a second version of its proposed regulations. In U.S. litigation, Meta and TikTok both faced further litigation, and an Illinois court ruled that J&M Plating must...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

FTC finalizes data breach order with online alcohol marketplace

On January 10, the FTC announced it has finalized an order with a company that operates an online alcohol marketplace, along with its CEO, related to a data breach that allegedly exposed the personal information of roughly...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Peril: Hand in the Cookie Jar

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According to Data Breach Today, Microsoft has advised of a current email phishing scheme aimed to date at business email customers using “session cookies” to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) requirements....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

NYAG Issues Credential Stuffing Guidance

The New York AG recently issued information about steps companies can take to protect against credential stuffing attacks, and how to handle them if they occur. The guidance makes up a majority of a larger AG report on...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Record €210 Million in Fines for Breach of Cookies and Website Tracking Rules—Note e-Privacy Directive, Not Just GDPR

France’s data protection regulator (the CNIL) said this week it has fined Google and Facebook a combined €210 million for breaches of laws on cookies use and tracking of user online activity. These fines were not under the...more

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NY Attorney General Announces Settlement After Website Data Breach

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In late May, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a $200,000 settlement agreement with Filters Fast, an online water filtration retailer, stemming from a 2019 data breach compromising the personal information of...more

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Walmart Litigation Provides Guidance on Data Breach Class Action Suits Under the CCPA

Gardiner v. Walmart provided some guidance as to the specificity required to state a claim under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the types of damages that may be recoverable for breaches of California consumer...more

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