On March 25, Alston & Bird partner David Keating to moderate panel discussion organized by the American Constitution Society and Georgia State Bar on Big Data. Featured speakers are Georgia Tech’s Peter Swire, Acxiom’s Jerry Jones, FTC’s Cindy Liebes, and attorney Gerald Weber. David Keating, Partner and co-chair of the firm’s Privacy & Security team, […]
Kristy Brown Speaking at Federal Bar Association Cyber Liability Luncheon
Kristy Brown, chair of the firm’s Telecommunications & Technology, and Privacy Litigation Practice Teams, will be a featured speaker at a lunch program sponsored by the Atlanta Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and hosted in Alston & Bird’s Atlanta office on March 25. Recent news stories about government surveillance, data breaches and hacking have made […]
Jim Harvey Speaking at the 2014 IAPP Global Privacy Summit
Jim Harvey, co-chair of the firm’s Privacy & Data Security practice and the Security Incident Management and Response Team, will participate as a presenter at the 2014 IAPP Global Privacy Summit, March 5-7. The IAPP Summit, one of the largest in the world, hosts privacy and security professionals to focus on a range of privacy-related topics. […]
Northern District of California to Decide in the In re Hulu Privacy Litigation Whether Disclosing Anonymized Data to a Web Analytics Company and Use of the Facebook “Like” Button Violate the Video Privacy Protection Act
Any company that has a website that (a) contains videos, (b) uses a third-party analytics company to maintain metrics on page views and/or (c) allows users to “like” videos on the site should pay very close attention to the In re Hulu Privacy Litigation pending in the United States District Court of Northern California. In […]
LabMD’s Federal Court Actions Against the FTC Dismissed
LabMD is back in the news. This time, however, it’s not the FTC’s administrative action against LabMD that’s making headlines. (For information about the administrative action, please see our prior posts here and here.) Instead, LabMD’s federal court actions against the FTC – one in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and […]