The surge in data breach lawsuits is a result of the rise in breaches and plaintiffs’ lawyers determining that such litigation is a lucrative space, said Jackson Lewis attorneys in a podcast Thursday. Courts are also helping make these suits easier to bring and speed counts, they added.
A recent court decision on West Virginia's Daniel's Law is the first ruling to find a law protecting the privacy of public officials unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds -- and it will likely influence litigation in other states, said Troutman lawyers in a blog post Aug. 22. It could also lead to West Virginia amending its law, a Klein Moynihan lawyer said Monday.
A breach at an Ohio firm that helps patients obtain physician-certified medical marijuana cards may have exposed the sensitive information of more than 900,000 of its customers, a law firm investigating the incident said Tuesday.
Despite technology recording a woman's activity on a shopping site, that wasn't enough for her to claim a concrete privacy injury, an appeals court ruled as it dismissed her class-action suit. Celebrating the decision, advocacy groups said merely invoking the word "privacy" doesn't necessarily equate to a legitimate claim.
Software marketing firm Cierant Corporation failed to safeguard customers' personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), which allowed their exposure in a 2024 breach, alleged a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday. Plaintiff Melissa Gifford brought the suit in the U.S. District Court for Connecticut on behalf of her minor child, whose health information was leaked.
California and Maryland parents on Monday appealed a child privacy case against an education technology platform to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. District Court for Central California ruled in favor of Instructure earlier this month, saying the parents failed to plausibly allege specific facts about the taking or use of data (see 2508050033).
The breach and subsequent lawsuit against a winemaker that allegedly compromised the data of 26,000 customers "underscores the vulnerability of companies handling sensitive customer information," McDermott Will lawyers said in a blog post Thursday.
While recent court decisions have added to a circuit split on the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988 (see 2508190026), some have also introduced notable interpretations of how the statute should apply, privacy lawyers said in interviews with Privacy Daily.
By the second day of a whirlwind special session in Colorado, state legislators had halved the number of proposals to amend the Colorado AI Act to two. On Thursday, House and Senate Business committees approved a variety of amendments to a pair of leading AI proposals before advancing them to each chamber’s Appropriations Committee.
A federal court dismissed a case against several data brokers accused of violating West Virginia's Daniel's Law. Judge Michael Urbanski ruled the 2021 statutory provision the plaintiff relied on -- which allows certain public servants to request data brokers delete their personal information from their public websites -- is unconstitutional.