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About Alex Brown

Alex Brown is a partner with Alston & Bird’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group and focuses his complex commercial litigation practice on high-stakes antitrust, intellectual property, consumer protection, and data privacy matters.

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FTC’s Ability to Regulate Data Security Potentially Limited in FTC v. LabMD

November 19, 2015 By Alex Brown

A November 13, 2015 decision from the Federal Trade Commission’s Chief Administrative Law Judge, D. Michael Chappell, calls into question FTC enforcement in the data privacy space.  The case began when the FTC filed a complaint on August 28, 2013 after an employee of LabMD, a cancer detection laboratory, downloaded peer-to-peer (“P2P”) software that exposed patient […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Enforcement, Legislation, Privacy Litigation, Security Breach Tagged With: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement

West Virginia High Court Finds Standing without Harm for Invasion of Privacy Claim in State Data Breach Class Action

June 20, 2014 By Alex Brown

The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals recently issued an important – but outlier – decision in a data breach class action. In a per curiam decision, the Court held that the plaintiffs had standing to bring their claims even though discovery revealed that not a single class member – much less the named plaintiffs […]

Filed Under: Data Security, Health Privacy Tagged With: Class Action, Litigation

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