In advance of CPW’s first virtual webinar on the Colonial Pipeline hack, readers should be sure to check out an update authored by Colin Jennings, Ericka Johnson and Ludmilla Kasulke on President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order. As they explain, on May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) on “Improving the
CPW has previously reported on the anticipated impact of a Biden presidency on data privacy and data privacy litigation. In an update to that prior analysis, President Biden has reportedly selected Lina Khan, a prominent antitrust scholar and professor at Columbia Law School, for a vacancy at the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”). Khan’s nomination
2020 has been a year for the record books, and the area of data breach litigation is no exception. Several key developments, when considered individually or in conjunction, will likely make breach litigation a top of mind data privacy issue going into the next year. So fasten your seatbelts and read on as CPW recaps
This week brought news of a Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) complaint and proposed $4.25 million settlement with AppFolio, Inc. (“AppFolio”), a California-based company that provides “screening reports” to property management companies regarding potential tenants’ rental, credit, and criminal histories,. While the settlement bears a hefty price tag, it was Commissioner Rohit Chopra’s dissenting statement that
For those of you who happened to somehow miss CPW’s prior coverage of the impact of the November election on data privacy litigation, not to worry. CPW’s Lydia de la Torre, Glenn Brown, Kristin Bryan and Aaron Garavaglia have an article in Law360 expanding upon their prior analysis. As they explain:
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The United States is in the process of completing its 59th presidential election and electing its 46th president. A change in administrations is inevitably accompanied by a change in executive priorities. Assuming that Vice President Biden is sworn in as President on January 20, 2021, the area of data privacy will likely be of particular