In case you missed their presentation this week to the Association of Corporate Counsel, the webinar given by CPW’s Alan Friel, Kyle Fath and Kristin Bryan was recorded and is now available here. In it they cover an update on new US privacy laws, including for California, Colorado and Virginia (among others), as well
Since this summer CPW has declared session replay software litigation predicated on violation of state wiretap statutes as dead in the water. Judges apparently agree. Earlier this month yet another court kicked to the curb a session replay software dispute that asserted violations of Florida’s wiretap law, the Florida Security of Communications Act (“FSCA”).
Early in the summer, owners of the Colonial Pipeline were hit with a putative class action that was filed in federal court in Georgia. Dickerson v. CDCP Colonial Partners, L.P., Case No. 1:21-cv-02098 (N.D. Ga.). As a short recap, a ransomware attack carried out by cybercriminals crippled the Colonial Pipeline’s functionality. The Pipeline
Currently pending before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals is the important question of when a claim under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) accrues. Cothron v. White Castle, No. 20-3202 (7th Cir.) In another litigation CPW previously identified, a panel for the Illinois Court of Appeals recently addressed whether BIPA
Last month, T-Mobile disclosed that it had been targeted in a cyberattack that resulted in the compromise of some current, former and prospective customers’ SSN, name, address, date of birth and driver’s license/ID information. According to T-Mobile, “the breach did not expose any customer financial information, credit card information, debit or other payment information.” However,
In case you missed it, below is a summary of recent posts from CPW. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in additional information on any of the developments covered.
In June, we discussed a putative class action filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania concerning a data breach involving COVID-contact tracing data. Following the Plaintiff’s filing of an amended complaint, the remaining Defendant has now moved to dismiss on both standing and substantive grounds. Read on below.
To recap the alleged facts underlying this
Since it was enacted just over a year ago, companies have had to deal with the uncertainties surrounding how to interpret the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and the circumstances that might subject them to penalties and fines for violating the CCPA. As CPW readers are already aware, in an effort to inform the marketplace
Tune in to CPW tomorrow, September 14 at 10:30 am EST for Kristin Bryan’s live blog of one of the biggest data privacy litigation events of the year–oral argument in Cothron v. White Castle, No. 20-3202 (7th Cir.). The case presents the core issue of [w]hether, when conduct that allegedly violates BIPA is repeated,
Earlier this year we identified Cothron v. White Castle as a must-watch data privacy case this year and industry experts agree. No. 20-3202 (7th Cir.) (For our prior coverage of the case, you can go here, here and here). The litigation concerns application of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) and is