As CPW’s Alan Friel and Lydia de la Torre explain at CPW’s sister blog Security & Privacy Bytes, “[i]nformational privacy is a hot topic” and [d]ata is a valuable, but challenging asset.” They caution that “[o]rganizations can only meaningfully protect, and effectively make the most of, their digital assets if they know what data they
As covered in greater detail on SPB, data retention is poised to become a hot button topics for legal, compliance, and privacy professionals in 2021. A combination of regulatory factors, including litigation and enforcement risk of over-retention of data and explicit data retention and purpose limitation provisions in privacy regulations, have driven this issue to
Data breaches are on the rise, and with a rise in breaches comes an accompanying increase in data breach litigation. A recent class action settlement involving the largest online alcohol marketplace in North America, with retail partners in more than 1,400 cities, underscores how all companies across industries are impacted by this trend.
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The Eastern District of California recently approved a $1.375 million settlement between a certified class of former employee plaintiffs and an employer defendant. The class consisted of all individuals who worked for the defendant between March 30, 2013 and May 1, 2018. The defendant was alleged to have misused FCRA consent forms to improperly run
California stands apart from other states in that a right to privacy is specifically included in the state constitution. As a result, data privacy litigations are frequently filed in California courts that not only assert various violations of California statutory law, but also violation of residents’ constitutional right to privacy. However, not all of these
For those who have not been following the Plaid class action unfold, we previously covered it HERE and HERE. Soon after the class actions were consolidated last year, Plaid filed a motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ Consolidated Class Action Complaint in September, 2020. Oral arguments were held in February of this year, and the Court
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On the last day of the regular session, the Florida House punted the proposed Florida Privacy Protection Act (FPPA), which would have become the third comprehensive consumer privacy bill to be enacted in the United States. Governor DeSantis had previously voiced his support of the legislation.
Among the FPPA’s requirements were:
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