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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Florida Blue Breach Exposes Information of 939 Individuals
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (Florida Blue) has announced that 475 applications for insurance were backed up to the cloud, on an unsecured cloud server, by an unaffiliated agent…
Eye On Privacy
Lessons Learned from Cyber Awareness Month – Part Two
Following up on our last post about Cyber Awareness, we now focus on cybersecurity in the workplace. All organizations – large and small, for-profit and non-profit – need to be…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
GDPR Data Breach & Profiling Guidelines and last chance to comment!
By Amy Carlson
The Article 29 Working Party published two Guidelines related to GDPR: Guidelines on Personal data breach notification under Regulation 2016/679, wp250 Guidelines on automated individual decision-making and profiling for the…
The Data Advisor
Class Action Standing and Data Breaches: When Is There an Injury-in-Fact?
By Beth George
The biggest question looming over every class-action case filed in response to a data breach is: Will the plaintiffs have standing? The answer has divided courts in recent cases across…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Appellate Court Reverses Lower Court’s Dismissal of Plaintiffs Data-Breach Claim
By Chip Merlin
In a win for third-party victims of a cyber security attack, the United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia reversed a lower court’s decision dismissing a class-action suit against…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Beazley Publishes Special Report on 2017 Healthcare Breaches
Beazley has published a report outlining data breaches in the first nine months of 2017. The report notes that the highest cause of a data breach in 2017 so far…
Tech Risk Report
How to Protect Against Cyber Liability Threats
By Perkins Coie
The potential for cyberattacks and data breaches continues to loom large in any company’s calculus of risk, with events like the recent WannaCry attack only highlighting the threat. For years,…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Proposed Oregon Legislation: Credit Card Data Breach Bill
By Robert Teel
We received a proposed data breach bill (available here) recently circulated in Salem. This draft is a variant of Oregon House Bill 2581 that died in committee. That bill would…
Hunton Retail Law Resource
Consumer Protection in Retail: Weekly Roundup
By Phyllis H. Marcus, Andrew W. Eklund
This past week, several consumer actions made headlines that affect the retail industry. Continue reading for our weekly roundup.
Newark New Jersey Criminal Law Blog
Newark Police Captain Admits Stealing Information from Insurance Database: Part One
Newark Internal Affairs Investigation Results in Arrest of Police Captain Accused of Data Breach A captain with the Newark Police Department was caught stealing confidential information from a computer database,…