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Irish Credit Bureau fine offers insight into the DPC’s use of its corrective powers
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) recently published its decision following a formal inquiry into the Irish Credit Bureau DAC (the ICB) following the ICB’s notification to the DPC of a…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
British Airways Settles Data Breach Class Action
British Airways settled a data breach class action lawsuit this week resulting from a 2018 data breach that affected thousands of its customers. In 2018, the personal data of approximately…
Public Chatter
Are You Conducting Cyber Breach Fire Drills Yet?
By Broc Romanek
When I was a kid growing up in Chicago, our school would have periodic “atomic bomb” drills – which really was just another fire drill under another name. We would…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
British Airways Settles UK Breach Class Action
On July 6, 2021, it was reported that British Airways had settled a UK class action lawsuit relating to its 2018 data breach, in which approximately 430,000 data subjects were…
Consumer Finance Monitor
Ballard Spahr partner, Phil Yannella, authors book on data breach and privacy litigation
Phil Yannella, Ballard Spahr litigation partner and Practice Leader of Ballard’s Privacy & Data Security Group, recently authored a treatise on data breach and privacy litigation. The book, Cyber Litigation:…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Volkswagen and Audi Hit with Data Breach Class Action
This week, Volkswagen AG’s U.S. entity and its Audi brand were hit with a class action for a data breach that allegedly compromised 3.3 million consumers’ personal information. In the…
Employment Class Action Blog
District Court Rejects Conditional Certification of FLSA Claims Inserted into Data Breach Class
By Greg Mersol
Here’s a novel approach: What if you have an “off the clock” case where the court disfavors certification? Can you simply tack them onto claims in another pending class action…
TechLaw Crossroads
Data Breach and Standing: The Supreme Court Speaks. Finally
In its recent decision in TransUnion v. Ramirez, the Supreme Court clarified the mere risk of future injury can not support standing without a separate concrete harm. This will have far…
Eye On Privacy
Texas Breach Notification Law Amended, Changes Effective September 1, 2021
By Liisa Thomas, Genevieve Perez
Texas’s data breach notification law was recently amended to require the state’s Attorney General to post notice of data breaches on a public website within 30 days of receiving notice…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Fertility Clinic in Georgia Notifies Patients of Data Breach
Reproductive Biology Associates, LLC (RBA) and its affiliate, MyEggBank, notified approximately 38,000 patients that a data breach involving a ransomware attack had exposed the patients’ full names, addresses, Social Security…