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
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CPW’s Shea Leitch and Kyle Dull to Speak at ACC South Florida’s 12th Annual CLE Conference
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
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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.
The Southern District of Florida issued its second motion to dismiss ruling in the multidistrict litigation (“MDL”), In re Mednax Services, MDL No. 2994, further limiting Plaintiffs’ claims but allowing the case to proceed to discovery. This ruling is a mixed bag for the Defendants but consistent with rulings in prior cases (where the
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No Injury = No Article III Standing in Data Breach Class Action
In a record-setting proposed settlement filed last week, T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million and boost its data security by $150 million over the next two years to resolve multidistrict litigation brought by T-Mobile customers whose data was allegedly exposed in a 2021 data breach. Read on for the terms of the settlement, which may serve as a model in other high stakes data security cases going forward.
Recall that in August 2021, T-Mobile disclosed that it had been the victim of 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 the “Data Event”). By T-Mobile’s account, no “customer financial information, credit card information, debit or other payment information” was exposed in the attack. Nevertheless, over 40 putative class action claims were filed seeking damages for the improper disclosure of Plaintiffs’ personal information. In December 2021, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred and centralized the putative class actions into the MDL standing before the Western District of Missouri.
Special thanks to our Summer Associate, Nyet Abraha, for her work on this blog.
Carnival Cruise Line, one of the largest international cruise lines, has agreed to pay $6 million to resolve claims brought by state attorneys general in response to a 2019 data breach. In March 2020, Carnival reported a data breach that compromised
Thanks to our Summer Associate, Maya Thomas, for her work on this timely blog.
2021 saw creative plaintiff attorneys initiating a string of class action lawsuits alleging that sessions replay software violated state wiretap acts— notably in California and Florida.
While decisions out of Florida led many to believe these types of cases were dying