Class Action

In January 2019, the Illinois Supreme Court opened the floodgates to class action litigation pursued under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) when the state’s highest court held in Rosenbach v. Six Flags Ent. Corp., 2019 IL 123186, 129 N.E.3d 1197 (Ill. 2019), that plaintiffs do not have to allege any actual injury or damages to pursue claims under the state’s biometric privacy statute; instead, mere technical violations of the law are sufficient. Today, the world of biometric privacy litigation experienced a development noteworthy enough to put it on equal footing with Rosenbach, with a jury finding in favor of a class of Illinois truck drivers in the first BIPA class action to be tried to verdict.
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After several days of deliberating, a jury today convicted Uber Technologies Inc.’s (“Uber’s”) former chief security officer (the “Former CSO”) of criminal obstruction and concealing the theft of personal data of fifty million Uber customers and seven million Uber drivers from the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”).

Recall that back in 2016, two hackers stole data…

Join CPW’s Kristin Bryan as she discusses practical solutions for corporate counsel to mitigate potential cybersecurity class action risks during the upcoming Strafford webinar, “Mitigating Cybersecurity Class Action Litigation Risks,” on Thursday, November 10, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST. 
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For the past two years session replay software litigation claims have been brought in federal courts and state courts across the country, with particular focus on Florida and more recently California.

By way of reference, session replay software captures certain aspects of a user’s interactions on web applications (mouse movements, clicks, typing, etc.) along with…

CPW’s Kristin Bryan, a 2022 Law360 Privacy & Cybersecurity MVP as well as a featured subject matter expert for LexisNexis, Jesse Taylor and Shing Tse teamed up to co-author a chapter of the Lexis Practical Guidance titled “Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Breach Litigation: Key Laws and Considerations”. In this practice…

This week a federal judge in Illinois granted final approval to a $92 million settlement to resolve TikTok privacy multidistrict litigation.  In Re: Tiktok, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litigation (Case: 1:20-cv-04699).  This case is notable for both its large class size and resolution of two dozen privacy litigations which had been previously filed against TikTok and…

In case you missed it, below are recent posts from Consumer Privacy World covering the latest developments on data privacy, security and innovation. Please reach out to the authors if you are interested in additional information.

VIXIO Regulatory Intelligence Quoted CPW’s Kristin Bryan in Recent Article on FTC and CFPB Data Protection and Privacy Legislation…

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JPML Declines to Create MDL for Data Breach Cases

CPW’s Kyle Fath and Gicel Tomimbang to Speak at IAPP…

This week the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) declined to create a multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) from competing class action lawsuits stemming from the same data incident.  Read on to learn more about this particular decision and how it relates to CPW’s prior analysis of other data incident litigation.
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