This post was also written by Leslie Chen.
Spurred by the security breaches at Target, Neiman Marcus, and The Home Depot, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill No. 1710 September 30, 2014. The bill expands requirements on persons or businesses that own, license, and maintain personal information about a California resident. Specifically,
On 31 July, the chief judge of the Southern District of New York delivered the latest in a series of controversial judgments stemming from a test case brought by Microsoft in an extra-territorial warrant issued under the U.S. Stored Communications Act. In the third ruling on the matter, the court found in favour of the
On June 17, 2014, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of the Northern District of California denied class certification for the proposed class of Hulu and Facebook users alleging that their personal information was transmitted to Facebook in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). We’ve written about this VPPA case before. At the end
This post was also written by Paul H. Cho.
On May 21, 2014, the California Attorney General, Kamala D. Harris, issued her long-awaited guidance for complying with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”). “Making Your Privacy Practices Public,” which can be found here, provides specific recommendations on how businesses are to comply with
In the week commencing 12 May, members of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) will conduct an online privacy sweep, focusing on the transparency with which mobile apps collect personal data.
GPEN is an informal network of 27 Data Protection Authorities (“DPAs”) that was established in 2007. Its members include the UK’s ICO, France’s CNIL,
A New Jersey federal court is allowing the FTC’s case against Wyndham Worldwide Corporation to go forward, denying Wyndham’s Motion to Dismiss on both the unfairness and deception counts. In this closely watched case, the court emphasized that in denying Wyndham’s request for dismissal, it was not providing the FTC with a “blank check to
Last week, the Northern District of California denied a motion for class certification in a multidistrict litigation brought against Google over its alleged practice of scanning Gmail messages in order to serve content-based advertising. In re: Google Inc. Gmail Litigation, 5:13-md-02430 (N.D. Cal.). In sum, the court found that questions relating to whether class
On February 4, the Ninth Circuit ruled that a plaintiff need not show actual harm to have standing to sue under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA); a violation of the statutory right is a sufficient injury in fact to confer standing. The case, Robins v. Spokeo, Inc., may open the door for plaintiffs to
Target announced the compromise payment card information taken in-store between November 27 and December 15, 2013. Twelve putative class actions have been filed in federal courts arising from this announcement. Attached is a word cloud formed using those Complaints, excluding very common words. (Created using Wordle [http://www.wordle.net/].) Heading into 2014, Plaintiffs’ counsel seem to be
This post was also written by Frederick Lah.
Earlier this week, a data breach class action brought against health insurance provider AvMed, Inc. came one step closer to resolution when plaintiffs filed their unopposed motion for preliminary approval of the class action settlement. The parties filed a joint notice of settlement back in September,