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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

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

New Year, New State Data Privacy Laws

With the advent of a new year comes a new set of consumer data privacy laws in the United States. Five new state data privacy laws go into effect in January 2025, with additional laws coming throughout 2025 and into 2026....more

Morgan Lewis - Health Law Scan

2024 Year-End Recap of California Consumer Privacy Act Activity

First passed into law in 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) received its first major update in 2020 by way of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), through which the California Privacy Protection Agency...more

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Same Song, Different Tune: Plaintiffs’ Bar Adds the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act to its Privacy Repertoire

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Repurposing old laws to challenge new technologies has become the new normal in the privacy space. Plaintiffs continue to bring a kaleidoscope of privacy claims against companies in the tech age, reviving laws like the...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Rhode Island Legislature Passes Consumer Data Privacy Act

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Keypoint: While the act does not include many provisions found in the more recent consumer data privacy laws, it would expand privacy notice obligations in one significant way although the applicability and scope of that...more

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With a Key Deadline Fast Approaching, Now Is the Time to Address the New and Complex Requirements for Data Transfers Outside of...

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U.S.-based multinationals with employees in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are confronting a November 30 deadline to implement China’s new cross-border data transfer mechanism—the Standard Contract.  This implementation...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

State and Federal Crackdown on Data Breach: EyeMed, Carnival Cruise & CafePress Settlements

This year has seen some substantial new data breach settlements including a $500,000 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fine against CafePress, a $1.25 million multi-state class action settlement and $5 million New York...more

Hogan Lovells

Data breach response liability: Jury finds defendant not negligent for response to data breach

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In a first of its kind trial, a defendant accused of negligently responding to a data breach was cleared of all liability by a jury last month. After two hours of deliberation, the jury rejected plaintiff’s claim that the...more

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Kennedys cybersecurity and privacy (US) 2021 year in review

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As the world emerged from lockdown, it should come as no surprise that cybersecurity and data privacy remained dominant topics in the media and legal industry. Some of 2021 was much like 2020 – ransomware attacks continued to...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

California Consumer Privacy Act, California Privacy Rights Act FAQs for Covered Businesses

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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), considered one of the most expansive U.S. privacy laws to date, went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA placed significant limitations on the collection and sale of a...more

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China's New Data Security Law Restricts Cross-Border Transfers of All Data to Foreign Authorities

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When the DSL goes into effect on September 1, 2021, it will impose certain restrictions on a company's ability to transfer data out of China without the prior approval of Chinese authorities. One significant restriction is...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Alberta Government Seeks Feedback on Privacy Legislation

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The Ministry of Service Alberta is seeking public input on the province's statutory privacy protections. This follows Ontario's recent gesture to modernize its privacy framework and request feedback, which we discussed in...more

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Ontario Promises to Create Canada's First Provincial Data Authority

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On April 30, 2021, the Government of Ontario introduced Building a Digital Ontario, the province's new digital and data strategy, which lays the foundation for Ontario to become "the world's leading digital jurisdiction."...more

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IWD job service claims theft a growing problem

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Many employers are facing growing problems with identity theft in a new way: data is being used to file false claims including requests for job service benefits and SBA loans through the PPP, among others. To address this...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

How To Confirm Your Privacy Program Complies With California and Virginia Privacy Obligations

Consistent with a growing national trend, Virginia joined California in recently passing consumer privacy legislation with broad national reach. Both the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act ...more

Sands Anderson PC

Protecting Forensic Reports in Breach Cases: Lessons Learned from Recent Cases

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A recent decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia further erodes a defendant’s claim of privilege with respect to expert reports related to data breaches.  However, it also provides important...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Google's Data Collection Practices Face Scrutiny in Recent Lawsuit

Google has recently been named in three lawsuits that challenge how it collects users' personal information and whether users can opt out of the collection. Each of these cases raises important issues relating to notice and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

State Data Breach Notification Laws - September 2020

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While most state data breach notification statutes contain similar components, there are important differences, meaning a one-size-fits-all approach to notification will not suffice. What’s more, as data breaches continue to...more

Morgan Lewis

Schrems II Could Disrupt US Courts’ Common Ground on eDiscovery and Data Transfers from Europe - THE EDATA GUIDE TO GDPR

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Schrems II may force companies obligated to produce EU personal data to the task of determining whether to comply with US discovery obligation rules that risk fines under the GDPR for illegal data transfers or to defy the US...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2020

In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more

Kilpatrick

Data Breach Class Actions – Florida District Court Rules Threat of Future Injury Too Speculative to Support Standing

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Takeaway: Data breach cases often turn on whether the threat of future identity theft suffices to establish Article III standing. In yet another data breach case, In re Brinker Data Incident Litig., 3:18-CV-686-J-32MCR,...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Revisions to California Privacy Law to Appear as November Ballot Initiative

Data privacy compliance emerged as a top-tier issue for businesses across the globe with the implementation of new laws with broad scope and sweeping coverage, including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The Minted Complaint: Another Case Brought Under the CCPA’s Private Right of Action

Well before the California Attorney General’s power to enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) commenced on July 1, 2020, as we have recently reported, private plaintiffs had already jumped into the fray, suing...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Federal Court Erodes Work Product Protections for Data Breach Investigations

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In a recent decision, a Virginia federal magistrate judge held that the attorney work product doctrine did not protect from discovery a forensic investigation report created for Capital One in the wake of a 2019 data breach....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

What We Can Expect from the CCPA Regulations

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While the United States largely hit the brakes as of March in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra made clear his intentions to begin enforcement of the Act on July 1, 2020, as...more

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