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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

France adopts new regime for privacy class actions

December 13, 2016 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

A few weeks ago, France passed the Digital Republic Act which significantly enhances French citizens’ rights to privacy by offering new avenues to exercise rights and granting new powers to the French data protection authority. A recent amendment to the Data Protection Act, adopted November 18, 2016, goes a mile farther and introduces a new […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, GDPR, Privacy Litigation, Uncategorized Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Privacy, EU Regulation, France, Litigation

Supreme Court Holds Congress Cannot Confer Automatic Standing By Statute

May 18, 2016 By Donald Houser

The Supreme Court has issued its much anticipated opinion in Spokeo Inc. v. Robins, No. 13-1339, 578 U.S. ___ (2016) (click here for a prior post detailing the procedural history and case background).  The Supreme Court granted certiarori in Spokeo to determine whether a bare violation of a statute – the Fair Credit Reporting Act […]

Filed Under: Data Breach, Privacy Litigation Tagged With: Litigation, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), U.S. Supreme Court

FTC and Wyndham Settle Data Security Allegations

December 10, 2015 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On December 9, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Wyndham Worldwide Corp., Wyndham Hotel Group LLC, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, LLC, and Wyndham Hotel Management, Inc. (“Wyndham”) had agreed to settle FTC charges that the company’s security practices unfairly exposed the payment card information of consumers to hackers in three separate data breaches between […]

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

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

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