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, […]
Board Governance & Cyber Risk Management
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 […]
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 […]
Investigating International Data Breaches In a Post-Snowden World – Addressing Legal Considerations and Logistical Challenges
Partner Kim Peretti and Senior Associate Kelley Barnaby of Alston and Bird’s Privacy and Data Security Team and Litigation and Trial Practice group have authored a Cyber Alert, “International Data Breach Investigations in a Post-Snowden World – Evolving Legal Obligations and Investigatory Challenges,” with E.J. Hilbert of Kroll. In this article Peretti and Barnaby discuss the evolving international obligations […]
FTC Denies LabMD’s Motion to Dismiss
The FTC – in a decision that should surprise no one – refused to dismiss its administrative complaint (“Complaint”) against LabMD. This case – like the FTC’s case against Wyndham Worldwide – illustrates the continuing fight regarding the scope of the FTC’s power for regulate inadequate data security practices. In particular, this decision is important because it […]