Molly Smith reports: Patients at the Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation learned some of their personal information was stolen, and tell WREG one year of identity protection doesn’t seem like enough. […] Patients got a letter in the mail, saying a robber broke into a clinic employee’s home back in December and stole a hard drive…
Appeal of dismissal of Neiman Marcus lawsuit heard by Seventh Circuit
After the proposed class action lawsuit against Neiman Marcus (Remijas v. Neiman Marcus) was tossed in September for lack of standing (opinion and order), the plaintiffs appealed. The Seventh Circuit heard oral argument on the standing issue on January 23. You can listen to the audio (about 32 minutes) here. The court will issue its ruling at…
BakerHostetler’s 2014 Year-End Review of Class Actions
BakerHostetler’s 2014 Year-End Review of Class Actions (and what to expect in 2015) is available online. It includes discussion of data breach class actions as well as privacy class actions, and covers theories of liability, standing, and other issues raised in recent and ongoing cases.
D.C. Public Schools Website Exposed Confidential Info About Students With Disabilities
John Templon reports: Like many institutions, the Office of Data and Accountability for Washington D.C.’s public schools uses an “intranet” for sharing confidential documents. Unlike most intranets, theirs was unintentionally public. […] Hundreds of documents were hosted on the intranet, some providing an unfiltered look into the inner workings of the city’s public school system,…
LinkedIn’s Data Breach Settlement Moves Forward
Wendy Davis reports: A federal judge has tentatively approved LinkedIn’s $1.25 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2012 data breach. “The settlement agreement falls within the range of possible approval as fair, reasonable, adequate, and in the best interests of the class,” U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila in the Northern District…
The FTC’s requested budget: implications for data security enforcement cases?
I was never good with budgets, but damned if I can figure out FTC’s budget request to Congress for Fiscal 2016. Is it seeking funds to expand the number of data security enforcement cases it undertakes or is the budget based on simply maintaining the current level(s)? So when @FTC didn’t respond to my tweeted inquiry,…