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Lenovo Wins Second Motion to Dismiss in Adware Class Action

February 2, 2018 By Gavin Reinke

By Jay Repko A California district court recently dismissed—for the second time—consumer claims that technology giant Lenovo Inc. violated New York’s Deceptive Acts and Practices Statute by selling laptops with preinstalled VisualDiscovery software that allegedly invades users’ privacy and exposes users to security breaches.  In reaching this decision, Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. concluded that […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Security, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Litigation Tagged With: Class Action, Cybersecurity, Litigation, US State Law

ECJ Rules against Schrems Class Action, Sets Up Jurisdictional Questions for GDPR Class Actions

January 30, 2018 By Daniel Felz

In late 2015, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its initial Schrems decision, invalidating the EU/US Safe Harbor and leading to important developments in the rules for transferring personal data from the EU to the US.  Since that decision, Mr. Schrems has pursued two further legal proceedings in the EU. The first involves Mr. Schrems’ challenge in […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Enforcement, GDPR, International, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Uncategorized Tagged With: Class Action, Cross-border, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, European Court of Justice, European Union (EU), GDPR Implementation, Litigation, Max Schrems Decision, Social Media

Data Protection Litigation to Become a New Reality in Belgium

December 22, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On November 16, 2017 the Belgian Senate adopted an “Act on the Establishment of the Data Protection Authority” (the “Act”). Following Austria, Germany, and the UK, Belgium is the fourth EU Member State to pass a domestic statute implementing the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) prior to its effective date of 25 May 2018. […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Data Breach, Data Protection, Data Security, Enforcement, GDPR, Legislation, Online Privacy, Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Regulation Tagged With: Class Action, Cross-border, EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR, GDPR Implementation, Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement

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

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