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Data Breach
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Data Counsel
Privacy Class Action – Article III Standing – 2013 Outlook
Authors: Erica Gann Kitaev and Paul Karlsgodt For a number of years, the key issue in data privacy class actions has been whether plaintiffs could allege damages sufficient for standing…
Data Counsel
Financial Institutions Privacy and Security – 2013 Year in Review
By Anne Foster, Gerald J. Ferguson
Throughout 2013, financial institutions continued to face serious threats from cybercriminals targeting the personal information of banking customers and their financial assets through the use of malicious software and denial…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Target Data Breach: We’re Already Seeing Litigation, Legislation May Follow – Jason Weinstein
Due to timing and the staggering numbers involved, the Target data breach has generated quite the response—from the media, from consumers and from lawmakers. But the public relations hit Target…
Health Care and Life Sciences
OCR Lacks Insight into HIPAA Security Rule Compliance
By Ali Lakhani
By: Alaap Shah and Ali Lakhani Why is data breach such a rampant problem within the health care industry? As health care rapidly digitizes through adoption of electronic health…
Technology Law Dispatch
Hungarian DPA Decision Redefines Concept of Data Controllers and Data Processors
Hungary’s data protection authority, the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH), recently issued a decision fining PepsiCo €5,000 for a data breach. The decision has, however,…
Inside Privacy
House Republicans Signal Push for Data Breach Legislation
In the wake of the recent Target Corp. credit card data breach, Congress is once again turning its attention to data breach legislation. In a memorandum to Republican lawmakers on…
Health Law Update
Healthcare Privacy – 2013 Year in Review
By Lynn Sessions, King L. Wong, Ph.D., Cory J. Fox, Anne Foster
Editor’s Note: This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor blog. On January 25, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR)…
The Northwest Policyholder
Target Data Breach Lawsuits Increase Focus on Insurance Coverage for Cyber-Risk
By Seth Row
I just finished a very fine (and, unusual for a lawyer blog, concise!) piece on the deluge of lawsuits already filed against Target entitled The Target Data Breach Lawsuits: Why Every…
Inside Privacy
Senators Call for Hearing on Data Security in Wake of Target Data Breach
A number of investigations and inquiries, including a call for a hearing in Congress on December 30, 2013, have been sparked by the announcement by Target Corp. that a massive security…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Data Protection Actions to Watch in 2014
As 2013 comes to an end it is advisable to note that reporting of data breaches this year reached a record high and included a number of high-profile incidents targeting…