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Privacy laws bring substantial compliance challenges for every organization that collects, processes, stores, and transfers personal data anywhere in the world. For legal departments, compliance professionals and internal...more
This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its onerous privacy compliance obligations, the law also...more
In October of 2023, a hacker claimed online that they had 23andMe users’ profile information. We know this as a result of 23andMe’s required statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on December 1, 2023. ...more
Editor’s Note: The FTC continues to crack down on privacy and cybersecurity, including issuing a new warning to tax preparation companies and entering into a consent decree with 1Health.io. VPPA and BIPA litigation continues...more
Information governance (IG) plays an increasingly significant role of the way corporations do business. But what do organizations do with all their data? Where do they store it—and is it secure, well organized, and...more
While there is no comprehensive, federal United States law governing privacy, there are several major state laws that are currently in place. To help our clients assess their compliance posture, we have published a quick,...more
Publications and Advisories - February 10, 2023 – Kathleen Benway, David Keating, and Sara Pullen Guercio published “Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy / Consumer Protection/FTC Advisory: Limit Your Health Data Sharing and Call...more
In a groundbreaking decision, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it was diagnosing GoodRx’s use of tracking pixel codes and analytics, its digital strategy, as not only an unfair or deceptive act or abusive practice...more
Welcome to this month's issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice....more
Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California recently dismissed a putative class action lawsuit in which plaintiffs claimed they faced an imminent threat of future of harm in the form of identity theft and fraud...more
Selected Developments in U.S. Law - Recent Exploits of Blockchain Bridges Highlight Need for Cybersecurity in Crypto and Risk of Liability - According to recent media reports, there have been several instances of blockchain...more
California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Draft CPRA Regulations - The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) just released proposed California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) regulations. The regulations expand...more
The Federal Trade Commission recently finalized a long-discussed update to its cybersecurity Safeguards Rule that includes more specific criteria for what financial institutions must implement as part of their information...more
Despite its antecedents in one of the most widely cited law review articles of all time from more than 130 years ago, modern United States privacy law is roughly twenty years old. Even though still in its relative infancy,...more
In the second year of litigation under the California Consumer Protection Act, a flood of cases continues unabated. When businesses subject to the CCPA experience a data breach, they routinely face consumer class actions...more
As we move deeper into the second year of CCPA litigation, the substantive issues continue to develop and we remain focused on the patterns and implications of recent filings and rulings. In this post, we highlight notable...more
In one of the first substantive decisions handed down since the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) came into effect, the District Court for the Northern District of California held in Gardiner v. Walmart, Case No....more
In a win for data privacy defendants, Walmart secured a ruling that favors a narrow interpretation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In Gardiner v. Walmart Inc. et al, 4:20-cv-04618-JSW, a Walmart customer,...more
Antitrust- Attorneys General Testify in House Hearing on Big Tech and Competition- •On March 18, 2021, Colorado AG Phil Weiser and Nebraska AG Doug Peterson testified before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial,...more
A federal District Court in California recently dismissed a lawsuit against Walmart that arose from an alleged data breach. (Gardiner v. Walmart, Inc., 20-cv-04618-JSW (N.D. Cal., March 5, 2021). Among other things, the court...more
A federal court in California has ruled that the plaintiff in a putative class action alleging theft of non-sensitive personal information arising from a cybersecurity data breach lacks Article III standing to maintain his...more
Class actions brought under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) continue to trend upward in favor of plaintiffs. Enacted in 2008, BIPA regulates the collection, use, storage, retention, and destruction of...more
Earlier this year, a number of individuals brought a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington against Washington-based company Wyze Labs, Inc (Wyze), which manufactures “smart” home...more
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) - HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (ONC) is giving health care organizations more time to meet new rules on information...more
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the landmark privacy law making waves since taking effect earlier this year, has continued to evolve as legislators and the California Office of the Attorney General refine and...more