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Data Breach
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Bright Law Blog
Increased Privacy Act Breach Penalties
The Commonwealth Government has announced a new penalty regime under the Privacy Act. The penalties will apply to all businesses to which the Privacy Act applies with a focus on…
Consumer Protection Connection
FTC’s 2018 Data Privacy and Security Update Highlights Enforcement
By Sheila Millar, Tracy Marshall
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released its annual report highlighting its work on privacy and data security during 2018. The FTC initiated five enforcement actions arising out of data…
Ride the Lightning
The Lawyer’s Ethical Duties After a Data Breach
I read a nice article on JD Supra written by Anton Janik, Jr. of Williams Mitchell and originally published in the 2019 Winter edition of The Arkansas Lawyer. The article…
Declassified
Another Punt: The Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in the <i>Zappos</i> Case
By J. Thomas Richie, Michael R. Pennington, Scott Burnett Smith
We wrote recently about how the certiorari petition in Zappos.com, Inc. v. Stevens was a possible vehicle to put the question of standing in data breach cases back before the…
Employment Class and Collective Action Update
U.S. Supreme Court Allows Zappos Data Breach Litigation to Proceed
By Stephanie L. Adler-Paindiris, Eric R. Magnus, David R. Golder
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition for a writ of certiorari by Zappos requesting the Court to review a Ninth Circuit Court decision which allowed customers affected by…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
U.S. Supreme Court Allows Zappos Data Breach Litigation to Proceed
By Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, Maya Atrakchi
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition for a writ of certiorari by Zappos requesting the Court to review a Ninth Circuit Court decision which allowed customers affected by…
Security, Privacy and the Law
Is Your Company’s Board of Directors Cyber Savvy?
By Julia Huston
Every company should expect that at some point it will experience a data breach. Whether as a result of hackers, disgruntled employees, or careless acts such as losing an unencrypted…
The D&O Diary
Guest Post: Claims Against Directors for Failure to Insure Against Cyber Risk Are More Likely Now
[caption id="attachment_17827" align="alignleft" width="281"] Francis Kean[/caption] In the following guest post, Francis Kean, Executive Director FINEX Willis Towers Watson, take a look at an interesting and arguably surprising recent U.K.…
Future Lawyer
Facebook Password Exposure – Another Reason For Two Factor Authentication
By rickgeorges
Facebook exposed up to 600 million user passwords to its employees | Android Central. Why a company as large as Facebook would store user passwords in a plain text database…
Data Privacy & Security Observer
Middle District of Alabama Denies Class Certification in Data Breach Claim Brought by Bank Against Retailer
In our Southeast Financial Litigation Monitor, our own Lindsey Catlett posts about a recent opinion in Southern Independent Bank vs. Fred's Inc., in which the Middle District of Alabama denied…