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Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Spotlight on the 2025 AGA Chair’s Initiative: Cyber Awareness

In late August, the Attorney General Alliance, led by then-Chair and former Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, convened the Chair’s Initiative in Girdwood, Alaska titled Cyber Awareness: Addressing Digital Threats at Home...more

Mayer Brown

Sixth Circuit Allows Congressional Review Act Challenge, But Rejects It on the Merits

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CASE NAME AND NUMBER - Ohio Telecom Ass’n v. FCC, No. 24-3133 (6th Cir.) - INTRODUCTION - On August 13, 2025, a divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a 2024 Federal Communications...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Updates to U.S. Health-Data Privacy and Wearable Tech

This year marks a pivotal shift from the era of rapid, unregulated health-tech innovation to one of stringent governance. The proliferation of wearable devices, health applications and remote monitoring tools has led to an...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Understanding the Importance of Data Asset Protection: Why Wineries Need to Pay Attention to Policies and Procedures

Data asset protection is traditionally associated with industries and entities that develop or store particularly sensitive information, like tech companies, hospitals, law firms, and government entities. However, data asset...more

DLA Piper

Thailand: PDPA Crackdown 2025: Are You Next? – Major Fines and Lessons from Thailand’s Latest Enforcement

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Since the full enforcement of Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (“PDPA”) in June 2022, the Personal Data Protection Committee (“PDPC”) has moved decisively from awareness-building to active enforcement....more

BakerHostetler

[Event] Data Dilemmas: Avoiding the Road to Ruin - September 25th, Atlanta, GA

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Data is at the center of our digital economy and provides endless ways to interact and connect with customers. Maintaining more data means taking on more risk. Join us for an interactive program that begins in the middle of a...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Sixth Circuit Upholds FCC Data Breach Order: Analyzing the Implications for Telecom Carriers and the FCC

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently upheld data breach reporting requirements issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) in 2023 (Data Breach Order) in its August 13, 2025 2-1...more

McCarter & English, LLP

A Hole in the Net: Massachusetts’s Six-Figure Penalty for Failure to Spot Phish

Massachusetts recently joined a growing number of states pursuing data privacy enforcement actions, announcing a $795,000 settlement with Peabody Properties, Inc., a Massachusetts-based firm. The property company oversees...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

In All Seriousness: UK Court of Appeal (Re)Opens The Door For Data Breach Claims

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Although they do not focus the minds of many organisations in the same way as multi-million euro enforcement actions, the importance of low-value, non-material damages claims under the GDPR has gathered steam since the...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Salesforce Users: Organizations Using the Salesloft Drift AI Chat Agent with Salesforce Must Check Their Presence for Compromise

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Salesloft issued a security notification on August 26 regarding its Drift application. It appears to be a broad opportunistic attack on Salesloft/Drift instances integrated with Salesforce tenants. Salesloft issued updates...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

We get Privacy for work — Episode 8: The Surge in Data Breach Lawsuits: Trends and Tactics

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Class action lawsuits in response to data breaches have skyrocketed as plaintiffs look to take advantage of courts’ perceived leniency regarding standing. ...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Sixth Circuit Upholds FCC’s 2024 Breach Notification Rules

Telecommunications carriers must continue to adhere to a 2024 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Order that substantially broadened carriers’ breach notification obligations, requiring that they disclose breaches of any...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Massachusetts attorney general announces settlement against a property management company

On August 19, the Massachusetts attorney general announced a $795,000 settlement with a property management company for allegedly failing to protect the personal information of thousands of individuals after multiple data...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Class Action Filings in New England Surge in 2025, Poised to Set New Record Highs

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A tidal wave of increased class action activity is breaking in New England courts. Through the first six months of 2025, total class action filings in First Circuit federal and state courts across New England have already...more

Paul Hastings LLP

You’ve Got Mail: NYDFS Enforcement Action Highlights Cybersecurity Risk of Over-Retention and Other Risks

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On Aug. 14, 2025, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued a Consent Decree announcing that Healthplex, Inc. (Healthplex) has agreed to pay a $2 million fine, as a result of an investigation into a 2021...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Data breach litigation targets wine company: Lessons for alcohol industry players

On July 30, 2025, a wine producer was sued in connection with a cyberattack that allegedly compromised the data of at least 26,000 customers. Among other things, the complaint alleges that the company failed to implement...more

Cooley LLP

Court of Appeals Upholds FCC Data Breach Reporting and Notification Rules

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The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit released its decision on the appeal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) data breach notification and reporting rules. The FCC order, which largely became effective in...more

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Maine’s Law Relating to Data Breaches: An Overview

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Like most U.S. states, Maine has a statute that requires investigations and sometimes notice to third parties after data breaches. The statute—the Notice of Risk to Personal Data Act—took effect in 2005. This article...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Protecting Your Team's Data: What Every Employer Needs to Know

Let’s talk about something that doesn’t get enough attention: protecting your employees’ sensitive personal information. In today’s digital world, keeping your team’s data safe isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s absolutely...more

Smith Anderson

Brewing Trouble: The Steep Price of Privacy Missteps

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A recent high-profile breach at a women-focused dating app underscores how quickly a privacy misstep can escalate into lawsuits and reputational harm. The incident offers a cautionary tale for any company handling sensitive...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Split Sixth Circuit Upholds FCC Expansion of Data Breach Notification Rules

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The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) achieved victory this week as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a heavily contested set of new data breach reporting requirements for telecommunications...more

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Sixth Circuit Upholds FCC’s 2024 Data Breach Reporting Rules

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued a decision in Ohio Telecom Association et al. v. FCC, upholding the FCC’s 2024 data breach reporting requirements for telecommunications carriers and relay...more

Ankura

The 'Butler Attack' — Delivering Prompt Data Breaches Direct From Your Mailbox

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Forget the “Barbarians at the gate,” we may have bigger issues to deal with from the “Butler’s serving us at our Banquets.” While Business Email Compromise (BEC) and/or ransomware attacks have been effective cyber-crimes to...more

Baker Donelson

AI in HR Investigations: Game-Changer or Pandora's Box?

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The term Artificial intelligence (AI) might be the phrase of 2025. It's written and spoken about everywhere by everyone, and essentially markets itself as the newest, shiniest, and most efficient tool for every industry to...more

Hogan Lovells

Thailand ramps up data protection enforcement

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Thailand's Personal Data Protection Committee (“PDPC”) has significantly intensified its enforcement of Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (“PDPA”), announcing on 1 August 2025 eight new administrative...more

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