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Data Breach
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Data Protection Report
Vicarious liability in the data breach context – bad news for UK employers?
By Steven Hadwin (UK), Mya Joel (UK), Marcus Evans, Catrina Smith (UK), Amanda Sanders (UK)
The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision of the High Court holding that an employer can be vicariously liable for data breaches caused by the actions of an employee,…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
CNIL Publishes Statistical Review of Data Breaches Since Entry into Application of GDPR
Recently, the French Data Protection Authority published a statistical review regarding personal data breaches during the first four months of the entry into application of the EU General Data Protection…
Class Action & Mass Torts
Yahoo! Breach Class Action Poised to Settle
By Jon Washburn
The Yahoo! class action over the 2013-2014 hacks, affecting 1 billion (later updated to 3 billion) accounts, is poised to settle for $85 million - and the provision of free credit…
Data Counsel
The Weekly Privacy Rewind
Class Actions Plaintiffs Seek Approval for $4.3 Million Settlement With Sonic in Credit Card Data Breach Suit • Following a variety of lawsuits against fast food chain Sonic Drive-In related…
Information Bytes
With PII breach notification statutes, the rules keep changing
By Peter Sloan
Whew - we've survived yet another round of states enacting or amending their PII breach notification laws. If a trial lawyer's vacation is the time between her question and the…
The Law for Lawyers Today
Well d’uh: ABA advises lawyers to notify clients of a data breach
Some answers are so obvious that you are left wondering why the question needed to be asked in the first place. Like “should a client pay a fee it agreed…
Tech Law Blog
Court of Appeal confirms Morrisons’ vicarious liability for deliberate data breach caused by employee
The UK Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against the High Court's decision that Morrisons is vicariously liable to 5,000 employees for misuse of their personal data by a…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
FTC Releases Staff Perspective on Informational Injuries
On October 19, 2018, the FTC announced that it released the Staff Perspective on the Informational Injury Workshop, which summarized the outcomes of a workshop it hosted on December 12,…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
New Ethics Guidance for Lawyers from the American Bar Association (ABA) Regarding Data Breach and Cyber-attack
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team
We all know data breaches can impact all of us, regardless of whether we are a Fortune 500 company or a small business. Lawyers, of course, are not immune from…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
OCR Enters into Record Settlement with Anthem
Recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights entered into a resolution agreement and record settlement of $16 million with Anthem, Inc. following Anthem’s 2015…