Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • September 10, 2024

    42 AGs Back Call For Social Media Warning Label Law

    A bipartisan group of 42 attorneys general urged Congress on Tuesday to introduce warning labels on social media platforms in a bid to tackle risks posed to young people's mental health.

  • September 10, 2024

    Atlanta Consultant Didn't Deal With Cyber Hackers, Suit Says

    An Atlanta-based insurance industry consulting firm failed to negotiate with hackers and didn't pay a ransom to protect user data after its network was compromised, despite promises to keep customer information safe, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday.

  • September 10, 2024

    Cybersecurity Pro Jumps From Hogan Lovells To Goodwin

    A former partner from Hogan Lovells's privacy and cybersecurity practice has joined Goodwin Procter LLP's data, privacy and cybersecurity group as a partner in New York City, the firm said Tuesday.

  • September 10, 2024

    UK Watchdogs Link Up To Tackle Cybersecurity Enforcement

    The U.K.'s data protection watchdog said Tuesday that it has signed a new cooperation agreement with the country's top criminal investigator to help tackle cybercrime in the U.K.

  • September 10, 2024

    Cybersecurity Co. Beats Suit Over Med Tech Data Breach

    A Massachusetts federal judge declined to hold information security technology company Barracuda Networks Inc. liable over a 2018 data breach that exposed the confidential information of more than 277,000 patients of medical device maker Zoll Medical Corp.

  • September 10, 2024

    Nelson Mullins Adds Baker Donelson Health Pro In Houston

    Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has continued expanding a Houston shop that opened months ago by bringing on a healthcare attorney from Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC whose wide-ranging practice has included representing hospitals and other providers on cybersecurity and related issues.

  • September 10, 2024

    Philips Balks At Dentons' Request To Exit IP Case

    Dutch health technology conglomerate Philips Medical Systems Nederland BV is balking at Dentons US LLP's request to withdraw as counsel for Transtate Equipment Co. Inc. in a wide-ranging copyright and unfair competition case, insinuating that the move is a stalling tactic to avoid a final judgment.

  • September 10, 2024

    EU Antritrust Chief Resists Softer Telecom Merger Rules

    The European Union's outgoing competition chief pushed back at a pitch to loosen the bloc's competition rules Tuesday, saying that merger control rules for telecom markets must continue to look at competition at the national level rather than enlarging the examination to the entire 27-country bloc.

  • September 10, 2024

    Kennedys Opens New Offices In LA, Seattle Amid US Growth

    Kennedys Law LLP said Tuesday it has opened new offices in Los Angeles and Seattle as the firm looks to build on its accelerating U.S. growth.

  • September 17, 2024

    Cooley Hires Team For Emerging Companies And VC Practice

    Cooley LLP said Tuesday that it has recruited the head of Taylor Wessing LLP's emerging companies and venture capital practice, one of three partner hires as it seeks to boost its transactional ability in London, part of a broader plan for growth in the English capital.

  • September 09, 2024

    Cybersecurity Co. Founders To Pay $1.6M In SEC Fraud Suit

    The co-founders of a now-bankrupt cybersecurity firm have agreed to pay nearly $1.6 million to end the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's claims that they used doctored financial records to convince investors to fund their company to the tune of $100 million.

  • September 09, 2024

    Yodlee Privacy Class Cert. Bid Faces Uphill Climb

    A California federal judge on Monday said she is "inclined" to find that three consumers claiming Yodlee Inc. unlawfully collected their banking data did not have standing to pursue claims or represent proposed classes alleging their transaction information was sold, even though the idea of the stored data is "creepy."

  • September 09, 2024

    Judge Again Says Yearbook Site Can't Force Arbitration

    A Washington federal judge has said the company behind Classmates.com can't force a privacy rights suit into arbitration, in a ruling that determined the plaintiff's attorney opted out of a terms-of-service provision.

  • September 09, 2024

    The Atlantic Must Face Writer's Trimmed Defamation Suit

    A D.C. federal judge on Monday trimmed some claims from a freelance writer's suit alleging The Atlantic tarnished her professional reputation by retracting an investigative article she wrote about the Ivy League admissions process, but kept the bulk of the writer's defamation case alive.

  • September 09, 2024

    Dental Co. Can't Polish Off Suit Over Tracking-Pixel Use

    An Illinois federal judge pared down a proposed class action Monday alleging Aspen Dental Management used tracking pixels and other technology on its website to collect protected health information from customers searching online for dental care and transmit it to third parties like Facebook and Google.

  • September 09, 2024

    House OKs Bill To Bar Contracts With Chinese Biotech Cos.

    Driven by concerns about U.S. genetic data being shared with the Chinese government, House lawmakers passed a bill on Monday to bar federal agencies from buying certain biotechnology linked to the Chinese government or from contracting with firms that use those products.

  • September 09, 2024

    AIG Unit Sees Recovery Funds Dispute With RealPage Pared

    A federal judge trimmed a lawsuit an AIG unit filed seeking to recover over $1 million it paid to property management software company RealPage after a phishing attack, rejecting both the insurer's stance that the covered fees fell under a recovery provision and RealPage's accusations of Texas Insurance Code violations.

  • September 09, 2024

    Ally Bank Hit With Negligence Suit Over Data Breach

    Ally Bank faces a proposed class action filed Saturday in North Carolina federal court by a customer who said its negligence and failure to implement basic data security practices led to the leaking of customers' sensitive information onto the dark web following a data breach earlier this year.

  • September 06, 2024

    DC Circ. Considers Age Of Ex-Trump Aide's Surveillance Claims

    Even after more than an hour of argument, the D.C. Circuit didn't seem convinced Friday that ex-Trump 2016 campaign adviser Carter Page timely accused the Justice Department, the FBI and several individuals of various violations tied to their surveillance of him as they probed Russian election interference.

  • September 06, 2024

    Abortion Provider Says Activist Group Intercepted Patient Info

    A Massachusetts reproductive health clinic says an anti-abortion group operating a "pregnancy resource center" next door is secretly intercepting messages from patients trying to schedule treatment, then taking steps to cancel appointments or divert the patients to its own offices.

  • September 06, 2024

    Calif. Takes AI Reins With Looming Safety, Transparency Laws

    A pair of groundbreaking legislative proposals aimed at ensuring the safe and transparent deployment of artificial intelligence systems are headed to the California governor's desk, raising questions about whether lawmakers are taking the right approach to regulating the emerging technology and how the state's privacy regulator will respond. 

  • September 06, 2024

    NJ Medical Co. Claims Ex-Employees Conspired To Form Rival

    A New Jersey medical communications agency said Friday that four of its former employees and the onetime U.S. president of biopharmaceutical company PharmaEssentia used its confidential information in a scheme to form a rival firm and steal millions of dollars of work from it.

  • September 06, 2024

    $111M Tax Fraud Scheme's Ringleader Sentenced To 14 Years

    The leader of a scheme to steal the identities of taxpayers and pose as their accountants to commit $111 million in tax fraud was sentenced Friday to more than 14 years in prison by a Texas federal judge, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

  • September 06, 2024

    Software Co. Targets Validity Of Data Tracker Patents

    A software company pressed a North Carolina federal court to throw out a rival's patent infringement claims concerning software that allows businesses to track a website user's browsing without third-party cookies, arguing the patents are invalid.

  • September 05, 2024

    GitLab's AI Hype Was Too Optimistic, Investor Suit Says

    Software development collaboration platform GitLab is the latest company to face claims that it misguided investors about how artificial intelligence might bolster its fortunes as it faced other headwinds, including mounting costs for a China-based joint venture, that caused its share price to sink.

Expert Analysis

  • Takeaways From Virginia's $2B Trade Secrets Verdict Reversal

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    The Virginia Court of Appeals' recent reversal of the $2 billion damages award in Pegasystems v. Appian underscores the claimant's burden to show damages causation and highlights how an evidentiary ruling could lead to reversible error, say John Lanham and Kamran Jamil at Morrison Foerster.

  • How Justices Upended The Administrative Procedure Act

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    In its recent Loper Bright, Corner Post and Jarkesy decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed the Administrative Procedure Act in ways that undermine Congress and the executive branch, shift power to the judiciary, curtail public and business input, and create great uncertainty, say Alene Taber and Beth Hummer at Hanson Bridgett.

  • FTC Drives Crackdown On Connected Cars' Data Privacy Risk

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    After the Federal Trade Commission's warning to automakers about data privacy, which continues to emerge as a national concern, automakers must carefully examine their data collection, use and retention practices, say Catherine Castaldo and Michael Rubayo at Reed Smith.

  • Considerations As State AGs Step Up Privacy Enforcement

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    As new state privacy laws take effect, businesses are facing an increasingly complex patchwork of compliance obligations and risk of scrutiny by attorneys general, but companies can gain a competitive edge by building consumer trust and staying ahead of regulatory trends, say Ann-Marie Luciano and Meghan Stoppel at Cozen O’Connor.

  • Lessons From Recent SEC Cyber Enforcement Actions

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    The recent guidance by the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance is helpful to any company facing a cybersecurity threat, but just as instructive are the warnings raised by the SEC's recent enforcement actions against SolarWinds, R.R. Donnelley and Intercontinental Exchange, say attorneys at O'Melveny.

  • How Cos. With Chinese Suppliers Should Prep For Biotech Bill

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    A proposed bill to prohibit government-affiliated life sciences companies from contracting with Chinese biotech companies of concern may necessitate switching to other sources for research and supplies, meaning they should begin evaluating supply chains now due to the long lead times of drug development, say John O'Loughlin and Christina Carone at Weil Gotshal.

  • Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Is My Counterclaim Bound To Fall?

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    A Pennsylvania federal court’s recent dismissal of the defendants’ counterclaims in Morgan v. Noss should remind attorneys to avoid the temptation to repackage a claim’s facts and law into a mirror-image counterclaim, as this approach will often result in a waste of time and resources, says Matthew Selmasska at Kaufman Dolowich.

  • Series

    Playing Dungeons & Dragons Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing Dungeons & Dragons – a tabletop role-playing game – helped pave the way for my legal career by providing me with foundational skills such as persuasion and team building, says Derrick Carman at Robins Kaplan.

  • A Look At The Regulatory Scrutiny Facing Liquid Restaking

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    Recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions highlight the regulatory challenges facing emerging financial instruments like liquid restaking tokens and services, say Daniel Davis and Alexander Kim at Katten.

  • Considerations When Using Publicly Available Data To Train AI

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    To maximize the benefits and mitigate the risks of using publicly available data to train artificial intelligence models, companies should maintain a balance between openness and protection, and consider certain best practices, says Michael Cole at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America.

  • Illinois BIPA Reform Offers Welcome Relief To Businesses

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    Illinois' recent amendment to its Biometric Information Privacy Act limits the number of violations and damages a plaintiff can claim — a crucial step in shielding businesses from unintended legal consequences, including litigation risk and compliance costs, say attorneys at Taft.

  • Jarkesy Ruling May Redefine Jury Role In Patent Fraud

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    Regardless of whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s Jarkesy ruling implicates the direction of inequitable conduct, which requires showing that the patentee made material statements or omissions to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the decision has created opportunities for defendants to argue more substantively for jury trials than ever before, say attorneys at Cadwalader.

  • 3 Leadership Practices For A More Supportive Firm Culture

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    Traditional leadership styles frequently amplify the inherent pressures of legal work, but a few simple, time-neutral strategies can strengthen the skills and confidence of employees and foster a more collaborative culture, while supporting individual growth and contribution to organizational goals, says Benjamin Grimes at BKG Leadership.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Hyperlinked Documents

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    Recent rulings show that counsel should engage in early discussions with clients regarding the potential of hyperlinked documents in electronically stored information, which will allow for more deliberate negotiation of any agreements regarding the scope of discovery, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Loper Bright Limits Federal Agencies' Ability To Alter Course

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to dismantle Chevron deference also effectively overrules its 2005 decision in National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X, greatly diminishing agencies' ability to change regulatory course from one administration to the next, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.

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