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The Healthcare Investor
Advocate Medical Group in IL Faces Patient Lawsuit Following Significant HIPAA Breach
A group of patients have filed a class-action lawsuit against Advocate Medical Group in Park Ridge, Ill., following a July theft of computers containing information on four million individuals, according…
Cyberblog
Breach Protection
All too often, companies that have been victimized by data breaches are being blamed by regulators and class action lawyers for not doing more to prevent the breaches. Now more…
Privacy & Data Security Law Journal
Data Breach Lawsuits Settling in the Southern District of Florida
By Al Saikali
Plaintiffs in data breach lawsuits around the country have had a difficult time surviving motions to dismiss and for summary judgment. A number of courts have rejected these lawsuits because…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: BYOD, Data Breaches in Schools, All About Content
Before we jump into today's Top 10, first a big congratulations to Daniel Schwartz as his excellent publication celebrates its sixth anniversary today. In the roundup, we continue to see…
Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Data Breach Class Action Against Barnes & Noble Dismissed for Lack of Standing
On September 3, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a class action complaint against Barnes & Noble seeking damages based on a data security…
Data Counsel
Class Action Plaintiffs Lack Standing under Clapper to Sue Barnes & Noble for Credit Card Data Breach
By Judy Selby
Editors’ Note: This blog post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog. Relying heavily on the Supreme Court’s recent Clapper decision, a federal court dismissed a class action…
Health IT Law Blog
Advocate Health Care already facing first lawsuit for July 15 breach involving 4 million EHR patient records
Chicago area Advocate Health Care suffered the country’s biggest health care record breach to date on July 15 – when four unencrypted laptops containing over four million patient records were…
Technology Law Dispatch
UK Information Commissioner fine of £250,000 overturned
By Christine Nielsen Czuprynski
This post was written by Cynthia O'Donoghue. The UK’s First-tier Tribunal (Information Rights) has overturned a monetary penalty issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) against the Scottish Borders Council.…
Inside EU Life Sciences
New ICO Statistics Show an Unhealthy Rise in Data breaches in the Healthcare Sector
Earlier this month, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) released statistics showing that over 25% of the 335 data breaches reported between 1 April 2013 and 30 June 2013 came…
Technology Law Dispatch
UK data protection authority publishes data breach statistics
The UK data protection authority, Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has published statistics regarding breach incidents in the first quarter of this year (1 April - 30 June 2013). In a…