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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Wyndham settles with FTC
We have been following the hard fought case between the FTC and Wyndham over an investigation that was launched by the FTC following a series of data breaches of Wyndham’s…
Data Law Insights
Privacy-Cybersecurity Weekly News Update November 29- December 4, 2015
By Kate Growley
Target Settles Data Breach Claims with Banks and Insurers On Thursday, Target agreed to settle claims with a group of financial institutions arising from its 2013 data breach involving customers’…
CAFA Law Blog
A Noteworthy Event
ACI’s Data Breach & Privacy Litigation and Enforcement conference, March 17-18, 2016 at the Union League in Philadelphia. Click here for the pdf of the agenda. This premiere conference is…
Health Law Update
Another Day, Another OCR Resolution Agreement – Numerous Repeated Breaches Lead to $3.5 Million Settlement
On the heels of the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center resolution agreement, OCR announced a resolution agreement with Triple-S Management Corporation and its subsidiaries, Triple-S Salud Inc. and Triple-C Inc.…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Weekly Data Privacy Alert – 7 December 2015
This week's alert covers news from Australia, Chile, the EU, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. Australia Mandatory Data Breach Notification Scheme Proposed Chile Digital Agenda 2020 Prioritises Data Protection…
ContractsProf Blog
A Settlement Targeted Toward Banks?
By Mark Burge
Commercial class-action practitioner Kevin M. McGinty here describes the final settlement of the infamous 2013 theft of credit and debit card data from retail giant Target's point-of sale terminals:On Tuesday,…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Million Dollar HIPAA Settlements Are About Compliance, Not Harm to Individuals
In the last two weeks, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced two substantial settlements under HIPAA that together totaled $4.35 million. These large amounts seem to be driven not by…
Technology Law Dispatch
Target Agrees to $39 Million Settlement with Credit Card Issuers’ Data Breach Claims
Still recovering from its 2013 data breach, Target Corp. agreed to a $39 million settlement with a class of banks suing the well-known retailer, marking the settlement as the first class-wide…
Byte Back
Target update: Happy holidays for banks
By Meghan Rohlf
Talk about a “bank holiday” – under a settlement deal filed in court yesterday, Target will pay $39.4 million to a litigation class of banks and credit unions to settle…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
VTech discloses cyber-attack exposing 5 million parents and kids’ personal information
VTech, an electronic toy maker, disclosed on November 30, 2015 that it experienced a cyber-attack on its Learning Lodge app store portal on November 14, 2015, that accessed and stole…