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Data Breach
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Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Arizona Updates Its Data Breach Notification Law
By Jason C. Gavejian, Maya Atrakchi
Last month, South Dakota and Alabama became the final two states to enact a data breach notification law. In addition, many other states, in response to trends, heightened public awareness,…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Data Class Actions: The Era of Mass Data Litigation
By Christine Gateau, Michelle Kisloff, Tim Wybitul
Class actions are commonplace in the United States but relatively rare in Europe. The European Union wants to change that, by facilitating class actions for mass privacy and data breaches.
The Data Advisor
What’s Old Is New Again: FTC Takes Rare Step of Withdrawing and Reissuing Expanded Data Security Settlement with Uber in Light of 2016 Data Breach
By Christopher Olsen, Edward Holman
On April 12, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it was withdrawing its proposed August 2017 privacy and data security settlement with Uber Technologies and issuing a new…
Privacy and Cybersecurity Perspectives
Hospital Servers Infected with Malware for Over a Year Affect More than 500,000
Malware-infected servers of a Baltimore hospital system, LifeBridge, may have affected more than half a million patient records. LifeBridge reports in a statement on its website that it discovered malware…
Data Counsel
The Weekly Privacy Rewind
Class Actions Facebook Users BIPA Suit to Go Forward • Denying cross-motions for summary judgment, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the class action…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Lincare Settles Class Action Data Breach Case with Employees
Lincare Holdings Inc. (Lincare), recently entered into a mediated settlement with its employees regarding a data breach that took place on February 3, 2017. On that date, a cyber-criminal posing…
Declassified
The Economic Loss Doctrine as a Barrier to Data Breach Recovery
By John E. Goodman, J. Thomas Richie
We recently commented on one hotly contested legal issue being addressed by the courts in data breach class action litigation, that of plaintiffs’ standing. Another issue that has been the…
Data Counsel
The Weekly Privacy Rewind
Class Actions Liquor Store Chain Binny’s Is Latest Target of BIPA • In a putative class action complaint filed in Cook County Circuit Court, employees of Illinois liquor store chain…
Privacy and Cybersecurity Perspectives
Uber Catches Break in Data Breach Class Action
Uber suffered a data breach in 2014 resulting in the compromise of more than 50,000 drivers’ personal information, including back account and social security numbers. Drivers brought a class action…
Healthcare Workplace Update
“Your Own Cybersecurity Is Not Enough”: NJ Physician Practice Fined Over $400,000 for Data Breach Caused By Vendor
New Jersey's Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs (“Division”) recently announced that a physician group affiliated with more than 50 South Jersey medical and surgical…