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Geico Customers Beware
By John Simek
Another day, another data breach. TechCrunch reported that Geico suffered a data breach and exposed customers' drivers license numbers for months. Geico filed the data breach notice with the California…
Carpe Datum Law
Litigation Outlook Blog Series: Cybersecurity
By Richard Lutkus, EnCE, EnCEP, CEH
As the global pandemic begins to show signs of waning, cyber risk is showing no such easing. In fact, in a recent survey, over 68% of business leaders reported believing…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
Developing a Privacy and Cybersecurity Training Program for Employees
By Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian
Increased remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated privacy and cybersecurity concerns, and likely has not changed the finding in Experian’s 2015 Second Annual Data Breach Industry…
Duff on Hospitality Law
Online Travel Update: Expedia joins other platforms in offering COVID-19 advisory; online distributors pursue public offerings; Booking.com fined over recent data breach reporting
By Greg Duff
While the debate around health care passports continues, our latest Update offers Booking Holdings’ CEO’s perspective on the growing controversy. We also take a look at two major distributors’ plans…
eDiscovery Today Blog
People Affected by Data Breaches Are Up 564 Percent in One Quarter: Cybersecurity Trends
By Doug Austin
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center®, publicly-reported U.S. data compromises in Q1 2021 were up 12 percent (to 363) from Q4 2020. No big deal, right? But the number of individuals impacted is…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
NYDFS Settles with National Securities Corp. for $3M for Violations of DFS Cybersecurity Regulations
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has settled alleged violations of the Department’s strict cybersecurity regulations with National Securities Corp. (NSC) for $3 million, regarding four separate cybersecurity…
Inside Cybersecurity & Privacy Law
Booking.com fined by Dutch data protection authority for delays in reporting data breach
By Mark A. Prinsley, Oliver Yaros, Valerie Vanryckeghem, Reece Randall, Ondrej Hajda, Ellen Hepworth
Following an international investigation in cooperation with other European privacy regulators, on 31 March 2021 the Dutch data protection authority ("Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens - AP") released its decision (available here in Dutch) to…
Hall Benefits Law Blog
A Recent Fifth Circuit Court Decision May Elevate HIPAA Enforcement Hurdles
By Anne Hall
On January 16, 2021, a Fifth Circuit Court decision in University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services vacated a $4.3 million penalty imposed…
Ride the Lightning
564% Increase in People Affected by Data Breaches in 1st Quarter of 2021
The Identity Theft Resource Center® reported on April 7 that publicly-reported U.S. data compromises in Q1 2021 are up 12 percent (363) from Q4 2020. The figure that has drawn all the attention is…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Ticketmaster Appeal of ICO Fine Stayed by UK Tribunal Until 2023
On April 9, 2021, the First-Tier Tribunal of the General Regulatory Chamber stayed proceedings in Ticketmaster UK Limited’s (“Ticketmaster’s”) appeal against a fine issued by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office…