Pauline Toboulidis | January 25, 2019 | Charitable Nonprofit Organizations, Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations, Data Privacy, International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration, Policing, Sexual Assault
At its meeting in Philadelphia on January 17 and 18, the ALI Council reviewed drafts for six projects. Drafts or portions of drafts for six projects received Council approval, subject to the meeting discussion and to the usual prerogative to make nonsubstantive...
Catalin Cimpanu | December 7, 2018 | Data Privacy
Hours after announcing a data breach on Friday, two Oregon men sued international hotel chain Marriott for exposing their data. Their lawsuit was followed hours later by another one filed in the state of Maryland. Both lawsuits are seeking class-action status. While...
Daniel Solove | July 13, 2018 | Data Privacy
In the period of just a week, California passed a bold new privacy law — the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. This law was hurried through the legislative process to avoid a proposed ballot initiative with the same name. The ballot initiative was the...
Linn Foster Freedman | April 17, 2018 | Data Privacy
We previously noted last month that only two states had not enacted a data breach notification law to date—South Dakota and Alabama [see related post]. South Dakota passed the finish line right before Alabama, but both states have now joined the rest of the nation in...
Taylor Carroll | March 27, 2018 | Data Privacy, Policing
USA Today addresses the privacy concerns raised after Congress passed the CLOUD Act, a bill that would allow police in other countries to have access to emails and other electronic communications more easily from their own citizens as well as Americans. In the past,...
Taylor Carroll | December 5, 2017 | Data Privacy
Cottage Health System and its affiliated California hospitals recently agreed to a two million dollar settlement after the health system disclosed over 50,000 patients’ medical information. The settlement was announced by California Attorney General Xavier...
