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Business Court Assesses Duties to Protect Patient Information Shared Through Electronic Portals

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A Durham County class action asks whether “My Chart,” a widely used portal that medical providers use to communicate with patients about test results, conditions, and treatments should more aptly be labeled “Our Chart.”...more

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Cyberside Chats - Zero Trust and Cyber Negligence: A conversation with Dr. Zero Trust Chase Cunningham

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Dr Zero Trust – Chase Cunningham creator of the Zero Trust eXtended Framework joins Jerich Beason & Whitney McCollum for today’s Cyberside Chat to discuss the principles and types of technologies that support a zero trust...more

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Class Action Quarterly Update: Privacy and Data Protection

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Second Circuit Denies Settlement of Data Breach Case Due to Lack of Standing - As we previously reported, in April 2021, the Second Circuit became the latest federal circuit to hold that an individual may establish Article...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Frequency and Cost of Insider Threats Continue to Increase

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The Ponemon Institute recently issued its 2020 Cost of insider Threats Global Report, which finds that the frequency and cost of insider threats is continued to increase. Sponsored by ObserveIT and IBM, the 2020 report is the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2020

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In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the EU advocate general's decision in Schrems II, a federal court's ruling that an insurer owed coverage for a social engineering loss, the Chinese...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Proposed Privacy Class Action “Collapses in its Entirety” on Commonality

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On May 7, 2019, in Kaplan v. Casino Rama Services Inc. (Kaplan), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice refused to certify a privacy class action arising out of a criminal cyberattack that included allegations of breach of...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

Snell & Wilmer

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

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Gone Phishing: Employer Faces Liability for Mistakenly Disclosing W-2 Forms to Scammer

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Phishing. Spoofing. - These words may sound silly, but for employers, they are anything but. Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive electronic information—such as usernames, passwords, or financial...more

Zelle LLP

Employee Health Information: Separate and Secure

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There are several reasons an employer might have employee health information, ranging from the results of a pre-employment physical to the contents of a request for FMLA leave to what’s written in a health provider’s note...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Evolving Litigation of Data Breach Claims

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An Illinois circuit court judge has dismissed five of six claims in a consolidated class action against Advocate Health and Hospital Corporation arising from a data breach in July 2013. The judge’s dismissal with prejudice...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

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Legal Insights on the Ashley Madison Hack: Part I

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Internet commenters and legal analysts alike are buzzing about the Ashley Madison hack. The website -- which billed itself as a networking site for anyone who wanted to discretely arrange an extramarital affair -- has already...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Seventh Circuit rules hospital system is not a Consumer Reporting Agency under FCRA

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Is a hospital a “consumer reporting agency”? Can a health care provider be liable under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in the event of a data breach? The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently considered these...more

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