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Tea Dating App Breach Reveals Major Data Privacy Gaps in Rapidly Growing Platforms

HaystackID on 8/8/2025

In July 2025, a 4chan user posted a simple Python script. Within hours, thousands of women’s driver’s licenses, selfies, and intimate conversations were spreading across the dark corners of the internet. The source? An app...more

More Privacy, Please – January 2024

Troutman Pepper Locke on 2/13/2024

NIST Publishes Report on the Cybersecurity of Genomic Data. On December 20, 2023, the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) published Final NIST IR 8432, Cybersecurity of Genomic Data. Informed by direction...more

[Webinar] 2023 Privacy Litigation Trends - February 15th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 1/30/2023

The proliferation of privacy-related law suits filed against a wide range of companies related to website tracking/analytics will continue in 2023, joining robocall and biometric privacy disputes. Join Kelley Drye Privacy...more

Class Action & MDL Roundup: Winter 2019

Alston & Bird on 4/5/2019

Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! This year has begun with cases all over the map, from California to Florida to Massachusetts. The West Coast features overbearing manufacturers, allegedly underpaid lenders,...more

Biometric Data Privacy Act Class Action Dismissed for Lack of Actual Injury

Fenwick & West LLP on 8/17/2018

A federal district court in the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a putative class action alleging violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act — known as the BIPA — holding that the allegation of a mere...more

Tag, You’re It: Biometric Information Privacy Act Class Action Against Shutterfly Moves Past 12(b)(6)

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/2/2016

Over the last six months, at least four putative class actions have been filed under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”)—an obscure Illinois statute passed about seven years ago to regulate the collection and use...more

Biometrics: Facebook Files Motion to Dismiss Privacy Suit over Facial Recognition Technology

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 10/16/2015

As discussed in a previous post on facial recognition technology, a putative class action has been filed against Facebook over the collection of “faceprints” for its online photo tagging function, Tag Suggestions. (See e.g.,...more

Facial Recognition Technology: Social Media and Beyond, an Emerging Concern

Proskauer - New Media & Technology on 6/24/2015

This week, a major self-regulatory initiative intended to address privacy concerns associated with facial recognition technology hit a significant stumbling block. Nine consumer advocacy groups withdrew from the National...more

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