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Corporate Counsel

'Spycraft' by Employers Raising Alarm as Technology Advances

"We really need to tread carefully," said Nikki Rivers, an associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo.
6 minute read

International Edition

Nigel Farage's Reform UK Faces Legal Action, Pallas Partners Acting

The law firm will advise the Good Law Project in its legal proceedings against the political entity over alleged breaches of voters' data rights.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Marriott to Pay $52M, Upgrade Cybersecurity to Settle Probes Into 3 Big Breaches

"Marriott's poor security practices led to multiple breaches affecting hundreds of millions of customers," said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Appellate Judges Grill Lawyer for Ex-Uber Security Chief Who Wants Conviction Tossed

"This case is an unprecedented attempt to hold an individual criminally liable for the way a company handled and reported a cybersecurity incident," Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe partner Chris Cariello said in court Tuesday.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

Nervous System: Who Ya Gonna Call—and Who's Calling You?

Creating what would become CallerID meant overcoming three challenges: the basic technical challenge of establishing a process to signal the origin of a call; the logistical challenge in deploying that technical solution across networks; and persuading a skeptical public that this technology was not a grievous privacy violation.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Rejects Hospital's Attempts to Dismiss Class Action Over Shared Patient Health Information With Meta

In Murphy v. Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, the plaintiffs alleged that the health system, which offers online accounts for patients via the MyJeffersonHealth online portal and mobile application, uses Meta's collection tools to gather their personal health information.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

9th Circuit Drills Down on Venue Issue in Privacy Suit Against E-Commerce Platform

"An electronic signal is sent over [and] something is implanted on a device that is in California," Judge Daniel Collins said. "It takes data in California from a device in California and ships it out of California. The claim is that the collection and transmission of the data violates California statutes. How does that conduct not occur in California?"
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Nashville DA Secretly Recorded Defense Lawyers, Other Office Visitors, Probe Finds

The Tennessee comptroller's office found that Nashville's DA installed an extensive surveillance system for audio and video recordings nearly four years ago. While investigators say numerous signs were posted that visitors were being filmed, there was only one small warning in an "obscure" place that audio surveillance was also happening.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Who Got the Work: Quinn Emanuel Enters Appearance for Snowflake Amid Flurry of Data Breach Class Actions

The complaint, filed on Aug. 5, is one of a national wave of class actions targeting Snowflake after a series of high-profile cyberattacks on the company compromised consumer data at over 165 businesses that implement its data storage services, including Ticketmaster and AT&T.
3 minute read

International Edition

Australian Legal and Professional Services Group HPX Buys Privacy Business

Hamilton Locke owner acquires Salinger Privacy.
2 minute read

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