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Data Breach
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Privacy & Data Security Law Journal
The Target Data Breach Lawsuits: Why Every Company Should Care
By Al Saikali
Plaintiffs’ lawyers were falling over themselves last week in a race to the courthouse to sue Target as a result of its recent data breach. By at least one report,…
Data Counsel
International Privacy – 2013 Year in Review – Central and South America
Authors: Gonzalo Zeballos, James Sherer, and Alan Pate Central American Data Privacy Updates 1. Costa Rica On March 5, 2013, Costa Rica’s data protection law, originally passed in 2011, came…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Another Small Healthcare Provider Settles Potential HIPAA Violations Following Data Breach, Office For Civil Rights Announces
A familiar story – small health care provider suffers a data breach affecting patient data, reports incident to the federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and winds up becoming subject to…
Technology Law Dispatch
Target Breach Yields A Dozen Plaintiffs Suing…
By Paul Bond
Target announced the compromise payment card information taken in-store between November 27 and December 15, 2013. Twelve putative class actions have been filed in federal courts arising from this announcement.…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Target Data Breach, Judge Posner Admonishes Lawyers, Housing Discrimination
We wind down the week with one last Top 10—and then it's time to head out to the LexBlog holiday party. In the roundup, Jason Weinstein has an excellent piece…
Cyberblog
TARGETed for a Breach – and Now TARGETed for Litigation
On Thursday, TARGET announced that it had been the victim of a cyber attack in which hackers stole data on credit and debit cards of as many as 40 million…
Global Media and Communications Watch
UK: when does hyper-linking amount to copyright infringement?
On 13 November 2013, in the case of Paramount Home Entertainment Limited & Others and British Sky Broadcasting Limited & Others [2013] EWHC 3479 (Ch), Arnold J granted a blocking…
The Data Advisor
Barnes & Noble Dodges Suit over PIN Pad Data Breach
A trial court in the Seventh Circuit recently dismissed a data breach class action case against Barnes & Noble (B&N) due to the plaintiffs’ failure to allege actual or imminent…
Health IT Law Blog
State inadvertently publishes PHI on web; apologizes
A website of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that is intended to provide transparency regarding how government moneys are spent got a little too…
Data Counsel
Ted Kobus Named MVP for Privacy & Consumer Protection
New York, NY, November 13, 2013 – BakerHostetler is proud to announce that partner Theodore J. Kobus III has been named an MVP by national legal publication Law360 and profiled…