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Data Breach
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Technology Law Dispatch
Information Rights Tribunal Rules Self Reporting Breaches To ICO Does Not Provide Immunity From Fines
By Christine Nielsen Czuprynski
This post was written by Cynthia O'Donoghue. A judgement of the Upper Tribunal of the UK Information Rights Tribunal (the Tribunal), in the case of Central London Community Healthcare Trust…
Inside Privacy
Congress to Hold Data Breach Hearings in Early February
On January 15, both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee announced plans to hold data breach hearings in the first week of February. The…
Data Counsel
Privacy Class Action – Theories of Liability – 2013 Year in Review
Authors: Erica Gann Kitaev and Paul Karlsgodt One hot area of data privacy litigation over the past several years has been data breach class actions brought under the California Confidentiality…
Technology Law Dispatch
Theft of Unencrypted Flash Drive Causes OCR to Issue Settlement and Corrective Action Plan for Physician Practice
This post was also written by John E. Wyand. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation of Adult & Pediatric Dermatology, P.C.…
Media Law Prof Blog
House Passes Health Insurance Data Breach Bill
The House has passed (January 10) a bill that would require the Department of Health and Human Services to notify an individual of any data breach in the health insurance…
Cyberblog
Is the Congressional Response to the Target Breach Off-Target?
In the aftermath of the TARGET breach announced last month, there has been much talk of how to respond to large-scale breaches of this type. Lawmakers are eager to write…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Snapchat finally apologizes for data breach – here’s what they should’ve done
Snapchat, the photo-sharing app popular among millennials, apologized in an anonymous blog post for a data breach that exposed 4.6 million users' phone numbers after downplaying the issue for several…
Inside Privacy
FTC Announces Settlement With Accretive Health Over Data Breach
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced a settlement with Accretive Health, Inc., a provider of medical billing and revenue management services to hospitals. The FTC’s complaint alleged that Accretive…
Cyberblog
Video Interview: Discussing the Target Data Breach with LXBN TV
Following up on my recent commentary on the Target data breach, I had an opportunity to discuss its fallout in a video interview with Colin O'Keefe of LXBN. In the…
Data Counsel
New Jersey Federal Court Applies Supreme Court’s Clapper Decision and Dismisses Data Breach Class Action
By Judy Selby
This blog post is a joint submisssion with BakerHostetler's Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog. Relying in part on the recent United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Clapper v. Amnesty International,…