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The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 17: Security, Cyber-Intel, and a Sense of Humor with Nir Rothenberg of Rapyd
Daily Compliance News: August 20, 2025, The Boss is Back Edition
12 O’Clock High, A Podcast on Business Leadership – Leadership in Cybersecurity and Privacy with Robert Meyers
The Road to Regulation: Vehicle Service Contracts Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
AI Today in 5: August 12, 2025, The Creating Billionaires Episode
AI Today in 5: August 11, 2025, The ACHILLES Project Episode
Under the Radar: DOJ's Data Security Rules and Their Impact on Payments Companies — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Podcast - Regulating AI in Healthcare: The Road Ahead
Innovation in Compliance: The Future of Compliance Training: AI, Adaptive, Learning, and Cultural
No Password Required: Former Lead Attorney at U.S. Cyber Command, Cyber Law Strategist, and Appreciator of ‘Mad Men’ Hats
Lawyers Beware: There Could Be Serious Ethics Issues With The New AI Browsers
We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 243: HIPAA Compliance and Potential Changes with Shannon Lipham of Maynard Nexsen
Compliance Tip of the Day: Rethinking Corporate AI Governance Through Design Intelligence
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 16: Protecting Privacy at Every Walk of Life with France Bélanger and Donna Wertalik of Virginia Tech
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
SkadBytes Podcast | Tech’s Shifting Landscape: Five Trends Shaping the Conversation
Hospice Insights Podcast - AI in Action: Exploring How AI Is Helping Hospices Do Things in New Ways
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
On February 10, 2025, the first class action complaint was filed pursuant to Washington’s MY Health MY Data Act (“MHMDA”), Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 19.373.005 et seq. See Maxwell v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al., Case No. 2:25-cv-261...more
On February 18, 2025, US District Judge Edgardo Ramos of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss against a plaintiff bringing claims under California...more
Class actions arising from data breach represented the fastest growing segment of class action filings. In 2023, more than 2000 class actions were filed, more than triple the amount filed in 2022. These cases were filed in...more
Data breaches made headlines throughout 2024, affecting governments, health care groups, and telecoms. Follow-on litigation has kept pace. Nearly 4,000 class actions involving data privacy issues are estimated to be filed in...more
On July 11, a split U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit partially vacated the greenlighting of two data breach class actions, holding that a district court must re-analyze the boundaries of the classes. Both the...more
On October 18, 2022, in Webb v. Injured Workers Pharmacy, LLC, the District of Massachusetts dismissed a class action complaint brought by former pharmacy patients alleging that their sensitive personal information had been...more
On October 5, 2022, in Laufer v. Acheson Hotels LLC, the U.S Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of a suit against Acheson Hotels, LLC, which operates an inn on Maine’s southern coast....more
On March 1, 2021, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of the Northern District of California dismissed a variety of claims brought against the genealogy website Ancestry.com based on the website’s use of individuals’ personal...more
Takeaway: In Tsao v. Captiva MVP Restaurant Partners, LLC, 986 F.3d 1332, 1339 (11th Cir. 2021), the Eleventh Circuit held that evidence of a “mere data breach” is not sufficient to establish standing where the hackers...more
The question of standing has proven to be a tricky one in data breach litigation. Last week a federal district court in Maryland rejected a proposed class action brought by Marriott guests related to a data breach suffered by...more
Last week, in a 26-page opinion, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals weighed in on two questions crucial to the viability of privacy and data breach litigation in federal court—and perhaps even in general. First, does a...more
On January 12, 2021, the federal District Court for the Central District of California dismissed a data breach law suit—including a claim filed under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)—against Marriott...more
In what some are calling a “bombshell” decision, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in Bryant v. Compass Group USA, Inc. that federal courts can now hear cases involving alleged violations of the Illinois...more
Class action litigation under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has exploded over the last several years. An ongoing issue has been the proper forum for such cases, namely whether there is constitutional,...more
As the use of biometric data continues to grow and become more prevalent across industries of all types and sizes, complying with data security and privacy laws has never been more critical or challenging. This is...more
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has written the latest chapter of the ongoing saga of Article III standing for violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). BIPA requires, among other things, that...more
In an important opinion, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that plaintiffs in the ongoing Facebook biometric privacy class action have alleged a concrete injury-in-fact to confer Article III standing and that...more
Google emerged victorious in Rivera v. Google on December 29, 2018, obtaining a win in the long-running privacy class action involving technology that allows users of the Google Photos service to organize their photos by...more
Just two months after an Illinois appellate court dismissed a similar complaint alleging a violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a California federal court found that a claim asserted under BIPA...more
While the emergence of biometric technology in the workplace is not a new phenomenon, employers being sued for utilizing this technology is a new trend. Over the past three months, more than 30 class action lawsuits have...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we discuss a Washington state court decision allowing a data breach lawsuit to move forward on a negligence claim, a Ninth Circuit ruling regarding releasing...more
The Second Circuit became the first U.S. Court of Appeals to wade into the rising tide of litigation under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) when it conducted oral argument on October 26, 2017 in a BIPA...more
In a decision consolidating two cases involving two veterans and two separate incidences of data breaches at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in South Carolina, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit...more
We’ve written extensively about the numerous lawsuits, dismissals and settlements surrounding the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The statute, generally speaking, prohibits an entity from collecting,...more