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Tuffly v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

9th Cir.; 16-15342 The court of appeals affirmed a district court judgment. The court held that the privacy interest of former U.S. Immigration and Customs…
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National Law Journal

Equifax Executives' Stock Sales Raise 'Fundamental Questions' Tied to Breach

Equifax Inc. has maintained that three executives were unaware of a massive data breach when they made stock trades on Aug. 1—worth more than $1 million—days after the company discovered the attack. Still, published reports about the stock sales raise "fundamental questions," two partners at the law firm Dorsey & Whitney said in an article published Friday at the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.
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Legaltech News

Glenn Greenwald: In Modern Surveillance State, Courts are Worst Enabler

The journalist who broke the Edward Snowden leaks dissects the legal foundations of NSA surveillance, and the complacency of a “malfeasant” U.S. judiciary.
6 minute read

International Edition

Equifax turns to King & Spalding to defend data breach class actions

US firm's chief privacy officer brought in for credit-scoring company's legal defence
3 minute read

National Law Journal

FTC's Top Consumer Enforcer Previously Represented Equifax. He Won't Lead the Probe.

The interim head of the Federal Trade Commission division that traditionally conducts data security investigations has recused from the agency's investigation into the Equifax breach because he previously represented the company while at the law firm Arnall Golden Gregory.
11 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ: Google Won't Fight New Warrants for Overseas Data

The development marks a reversal of the company's legal strategy on the issue of law enforcement access to data stored abroad.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

Delaware Could Be Model for Other States, Even Nations, With Blockchain Program

On August 1, a Delaware measure made it explicitly legal for entities incorporated in the state to use blockchain for stock trading and record-keeping.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Uber and Execs Bring on Defense Heavy Hitters in India Rape Case

Uber Technologies and a group of former executives have brought on lawyers from O'Melveny, Orrick, Latham, and Hogan Lovells to defend against a privacy and defamation suit brought by a woman raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi in 2014.
16 minute read

National Law Journal

Equifax, Before Breach, Lobbied to Limit Class-Action Damages

In the months before revealing a data breach that potentially exposed the personal information of nearly half the adult U.S. population, Equifax Inc. turned to the firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington to help convince U.S. lawmakers to reduce penalties for companies that violated the federal fair credit-reporting law.
5 minute read

Legaltech News

European Human Rights Ruling Provides Insights on Privacy for U.S. Companies

Companies may want to tell employees that if they 'do not want the company to access information, please do not store it in our systems,' advises attorney Harriet Pearson.
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