Brent J. Arnold and Alexanda Psellas of Gowling WLG write: The recent Ontario decision in Karasik v. Yahoo! Inc.,[1] suggests that while many plaintiffs’ lawyers anticipated a future of massive payouts for data breach class actions in Canada, recent court decisions predict a different course. The beginning of what may be an emerging consensus across provinces and…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
The State Of Health Data For Vulnerable Populations, Why Cybercriminals Target Children, The Elderly, and the Dead
Jessica Sganga and Kenneth Wang of Knobbe Marten write: 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 occurred in 2010.[1] While credit cards and social security numbers are perennial favorites, cybercrime has begun to favor the…
Court Dismisses Data Privacy Litigation Alleging Defendant Failed to Maintain Reasonable Security Procedures in Wake of Data Breach
Kristin L. Bryan and Katie Sharpless of Squire Patton Boggs write: CPW has been covering data breach litigations, including instances in which meritless claims are kicked by courts at the pleading stage. A recent decision from an Ohio district court is yet another example of this trend. Newman v. Total Quality Logistics, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS…
‘This was not a breach’: How Big Tech gaslights the world on data leaks
Vincent Manancourt and Laurens Cerulus report: First Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Now Clubhouse. After data on a combined billion Facebook and LinkedIn users appeared online last week, reports surfaced over the weekend that upstart social network Clubhouse had also leaked reams of user information. But if you think any of the above is a problem, Big Tech has…
A chat with DarkSide
If you would meet us on the street – you would never realize that we are cyberpests, because we are the same normal people like everyone else. Many have families and children, the only thing that these circumstances in which we found themselves in our country are. We have no hatred and desire to cause…
Cyber Breach Disclosures Still Take More Than a Month
Vincent Ryan reports: After being discovered, cybersecurity breaches are not consistently disclosed promptly, found an Audit Analytics study of public companies released on Friday. On average, publicly held companies took 53 days to disclose a breach incident after discovering it. The 53-day average disclosure timeframe is less than the 10-year average of 67 days, but…