SPB Partner Beth Goldstein also contributed to this post.
With the powerful Committee on Energy and Commerce having approved a comprehensive, bipartisan privacy bill by a vote of 53-2, the US House of Representatives is one step closer to approving historic privacy legislation after over a decade of debate. Before formally reporting the legislation to
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Federal Court Dismisses Colonial Pipeline Cybersecurity Litigation
Federal Court Refuses to Dismiss Biometric Claims Brought by Trucker Against Facial
This week, a federal court rejected an attempt in litigation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) to assert claims against not only against Credit Reporting Agencies (“CRAs”) but also the Chief Executive Officers (“CEOs”) of the CRAs (“CEO Defendants”), concerning claims that they failed to respond to communications or remove an errant account from
Thanks are owed to Summer Law Clerk Mia Guy for her contributions to this article.
Recently a federal court dismissed a cybersecurity litigation brought in the wake of the May 2021 Colonial Pipeline Ransomware attack. Ramon Dickerson et al. v. Colonial Pipeline Co. et al., No. 1:21-CV-02098 (N.D. Ga. Jun. 17, 2022). Based on
Earlier this month CPW’s Kristin Bryan and Kyle Fath presented a webinar on “AI and Biometrics Privacy: Trends and Developments” with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”), the largest global community of privacy professionals. A recording of that webinar is available to all IAPP members and available (for CPE credit) here.
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Recently, a federal court in California held that the loss of stored data, without more, is insufficient to establish Article III standing to withstand a motion to dismiss. In so doing, the court joined a number of other courts in holding that allegations of speculative harm devoid of allegations that personal information was stolen or
As we previously reported on the CPW blog, the leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee released a discussion draft of proposed federal privacy legislation, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (“ADPPA”), on June 3, 2022. Signaling potential differences amongst key members of
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This week Plaintiffs in thirteen consolidated cases brought against Accellion and other defendants filed a motion for preliminary approval of a class action settlement in California federal court. This development is notable for its resolution (if approved) only as to Accellion and for the categories of relief offered to class members. In re Accellion, Inc.
Last year, CPW covered a litigation win by Clarifai, Inc., a technology company specializing in artificial intelligence, when a federal court granted its motion to dismiss claims brought under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) in Stein v. Clarifai, Inc., No. 20 C 1937, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49516 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 16, 2021).