Data Privacy

As of 2021, more than twice the number of data breaches are now being reported than 6 years ago and three times the number of data breaches that oc...

On February 26, 2021, Judge James Donato of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of a proposed $6...

Defendants in US civil suits have sought to withhold discoverable material because of privacy concerns based on foreign laws, such as the GDPR. Alm...

Virginia just became the second state to pass a comprehensive privacy law, the Consumer Data Protection Act (“CDPA”). Business and privacy prof...

It’s generally recognized that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can apply to entities outside the European Union. However, scant cou...

A recent legal decision held that privacy guarantees in the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”) do not prevent discovery in civil liti...

On January 13, 2021, the FTC announced that fertility app developer Flo Health, Inc. (“Flo”) agreed to a settlement over allegations that the c...

Following its "Brexit" from the EU on January 31, 2020, the UK had until December 31, 2020 to bring its data privacy laws into compliance with the ...

As countries around the world begin administering COVID-19 vaccines, many institutions, both governmental and private, are considering the possibil...

In July 2020 the Court of Justice the European Union's (CJEU) Schrems II decision declared the EU-US Privacy Shield Protections inadequate for the ...

On November 17, 2020, the Canadian House of Commons introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020 (“DCIA”), which includes the Consum...

It well known that there are, unfortunately, many data breaches that frequently put private citizens’ data privacy in jeopardy. States have pass...