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The Growing Cybersecurity Risks in the Cannabis Industry

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Those familiar with the industry know that cannabis retailers find themselves in a unique position compared to other product retailers. Cannabis retailers face significant regulatory hurdles to their operation—particularly in...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Home Depot Gets Nailed by Privacy Commissioner for Sharing Data with Meta

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Recent findings by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) found that Home Depot of Canada Inc. (“Home Depot”) did not obtain valid meaningful consent to share summary purchase information with Meta Platforms...more

Chartwell Law

A Retailer’s Guide to Protecting Customer Data

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Retail establishments collect and maintain a wealth of confidential data, not the least of which is credit and debit card information of customers. This type of data makes retail establishments particularly likely to be...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.19.2020 | Top Story: S&P 500 Erases Pandemic Losses Despite U.S. Failure to Control Virus

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Unlike much of the world, the U.S. has not turned the corner on the coronavirus outbreak. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the markets. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 topped out at its highest level ever, “capping a remarkable...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.8.2020 | Top Story: Speaker Company Sonos Sues Google for Patent Infringement

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Home speaker maker Sonos has sued Google, accusing the company of “infringing on five of its patents, including technology that lets wireless speakers connect and synchronize with one another.” Sonos had originally partnered...more

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The State AG Report Weekly Update June 2019 #2

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Antitrust- 10 Attorneys General Sue to Enjoin Merger of Major Wireless Phone Companies- 10 AGs, led by New York AG Letitia James and California AG Xavier Becerra, filed a lawsuit to enjoin T-Mobile US, Inc. and its parent...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

SEC To Focus on Cybersecurity in 2019

For the fourth year running, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office continues to list cybersecurity as one of the top enforcement priorities for 2019. As it relates to cybersecurity, the SEC will be focusing on...more

Jones Day

Jones Day Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update | Vol. 21

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UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - NIST Evaluates Advances in Face Recognition Software - On November 30, 2018, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") published a...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Food and Beverage Law Update: June 2018

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Wage and Hour - Decision Upholds Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Clauses, Resolves Circuit Split - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis on May 21, 2018, holding that...more

Carlton Fields

Fall Data Breach Roundup And 2018 Preview: Supreme Court, OPM, Equifax And More!

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As 2017 draws to a close, data breach class actions abound, while questions regarding what suffices for Article III standing in these cases remain—with litigants hoping the Supreme Court will soon weigh in....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

New FTC Data Breach Response Guidelines

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Cybersecurity should always be at the top of any retailer’s priority list—and even more so as the holiday shopping season gets underway. To that end, the Federal Trade Commission’s newly-released Data Breach Response...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Data Breach Class Action Case Dismissed Against Barnes & Noble

A federal judge in Illinois dismissed the class action lawsuit filed against Barnes & Noble stemming from a data breach in 2013. The breach occurred when credit and debit card PIN pads were compromised at 63 Barnes & Noble...more

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Food and Beverage Law Update: August 2016

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When food and beverage companies think of their largest risks, data breaches have not historically come to mind, but this is changing because of reports in the past few months of major breaches by companies such as Noodles &...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

2016 Data Breach Litigation Report

Data security breaches – and data security breach litigation – dominated the headlines in 2015 and continue to do so in 2016. Continuous widely publicized breaches have led to 30,000 articles a month being published that...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Data breach class action dismissed against SuperValu for lack of standing

Last week, a Minnesota court ruled that a consolidated class action filed against SuperValu retail chain failed to assert any harm, finding that while SuperValu did suffer two data breaches, the class’s claims of possible...more

Perkins Coie

Could a Vendor’s Lax Info Security Ruin Your Holiday Sales? Seven Preventative Steps for Retailers

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Many of the largest retailer data security breaches have been caused or enabled by the acts or omissions of retailers’ vendors, such as the widely publicized incident at Target Corporation. Several such breaches occurred...more

Williams Mullen

[Event] 2015 Cybersecurity Seminar: Identifying and Mitigating Data Breaches and Related Liabilities - Oct. 29th, Richmond, VA

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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month! Please join Williams Mullen, Marsh and EY for an in-depth discussion on effective strategies for identifying and mitigating data breach and related liabilities. WHO...more

Bilzin Sumberg

[Webinar] Information Security: Background & Recent Developments - Oct. 15th, 12:00pm ET

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Join us for an in-depth webinar presented by litigation attorneys James Ward and Phil Stein on the trending topic of information security and how to protect your company from a data breach. This webinar will address what you...more

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New Credit Card Security Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Hardly a week goes by without a news report of a new cyberattack. As any consumer affected by fraud knows, the harm is real. The impact on businesses, government, and other targets is also real, and includes monetary harm...more

King & Spalding

Class In Session: Minnesota Federal Court Certifies Class In Target Corporation Data Breach Suit

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On September 15, 2015, a federal district court in Minnesota granted a motion for class certification of hundreds of credit unions and banks in an action against Target Corporation for damages stemming from the breach of...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Neiman Marcus Seeks En Banc Review of Seventh Circuit’s Watershed Data Breach Class-Action Decision

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Does a data breach of a retailer’s payment-card information automatically confer Article III standing on affected customers? Is the mere possibility that some criminal element may use pilfered information to commit future...more

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Credit Card Fraud Liability Shift Looms for Retail Industry

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On October 1, 2015, a substantial portion of the liability associated with in-store fraudulent credit card purchases will shift from credit card issuers, such as banks or credit unions, to retail merchants. Credit card...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

7th Circuit Opens Door to Data Breach Class Actions

On July 20, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit issued an opinion that could dramatically change the class action landscape for companies that are victims of hackers. In Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Gp., the 7th...more

Smith Anderson

Purchasing Credit Monitoring May Not Protect Companies from Data Breach Class Actions

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2014 set a record for data incidents, with nearly 30% of the 783 data incidents reported by companies caused by hacking. At least 97 incidents are reported to have occurred from hacking during 2015, affecting approximately 7...more

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Did the 7th Circuit Just Ease the Way for Consumer Data Breach Lawsuits?

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On July 20, 2015, a federal appeals court in Chicago issued what could be a watershed ruling in favor of consumers pursuing class action lawsuits against retailers and other companies following data breaches that involve the...more

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