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Professor Peter Swire Publishes his Expert Testimony from Schrems 2.0

September 12, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Peter Swire, Elizabeth and Thomas Holder Chair at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business and senior counsel at Alston & Bird, has made public his expert testimony from the landmark Irish High Court Case Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Limited & Maximillian Schrems. Under the Irish Court’s rules, Swire was asked to provide […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, International, National Security, Privacy Litigation, Privacy Shield, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cross-border, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, European Union (EU), International Data Transfers, Litigation, Schrems 2.0

Eighth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Scottrade Data Breach Suit

August 25, 2017 By Gavin Reinke

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a putative class action brought by customers of the brokerage firm Scottrade in the wake of an alleged data breach impacting Scottrade in 2013.  The named plaintiffs had asserted several contract-based claims against Scottrade, alleging that Scottrade had […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Protection, Data Security, Privacy Litigation, Security Breach Tagged With: Cybersecurity, Litigation

Anthem Settles Data Breach Litigation for Record-Setting $115M

June 27, 2017 By Andrew Liebler

Health insurance giant Anthem, Inc. agreed to the largest data breach settlement to-date last week, ending multi-district consumer litigation over a 2015 data breach for $115 million.  The data breach, which resulted from a hacker-orchestrated cyberattack following the theft of an employee password, exposed personally identifiable information (“PII”) and protected health information (“PHI”) of nearly […]

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

Northern District of Illinois Dismisses Barnes & Noble Data Breach Lawsuit

June 19, 2017 By Gavin Reinke

Earlier this month, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered an order dismissing with prejudice a putative class action concerning a security breach affecting PIN pad devices at numerous Barnes & Noble locations.  The lawsuit, In re Barnes & Noble Pin Pad Litigation, No. 12-cv-8617 (N.D. Ill.), was brought by […]

Filed Under: Data Breach, Privacy Litigation Tagged With: Class Action, Litigation

Data Monetization and State Privacy Laws

June 15, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On June 8, magazine publisher Trusted Media Brands, Inc. settled a class action lawsuit for $8.2 million after purportedly disclosing the personal information and magazine choices of customers to third parties.  The lawsuit, Taylor v. Trusted Media Brands, Inc., No. 7:16-cv-01812 (S.D.N.Y. June 8, 2017), alleged that the publisher’s actions violated Michigan’s Video Rental Privacy […]

Filed Under: Privacy, Privacy Litigation Tagged With: Privacy, Privacy Class Actions

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