by Kathy Ossian | Jul 22, 2019 | IT Law Alerts
Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) was passed in 2008 but over the past few years has been the basis for hundreds of proposed class action lawsuits. As originally drafted, the law contains potentially overbroad definitions of “biometric...
by Kathy Ossian | Jul 7, 2019 | IT Law Alerts
Chinese-based mobile app developer Cheetah Mobile, Inc. has asked a federal court in New York to dismiss a purposed class action lawsuit brought by the company’s investors. Cheetah boasts hundreds of millions of monthly active users of its apps, including Clean...
by Kathy Ossian | Jun 17, 2019 | IT Law Alerts
In May 2019, Verizon released its 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. The report is the result of analyzing some 41,686 security incidents of which 2,013 were confirmed data breaches. Among the report’s key findings: The majority of incidents were denial of...
by Kathy Ossian | Jun 4, 2019 | IT Law Alerts
Eighteen year old Ousmane Bah has sued Apple after he was falsely accused of felonies in multiple states, including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Delaware. The arrests allegedly resulted from Bah’s image being mismatched to the identity of the true suspect...
by Kathy Ossian | May 19, 2019 | IT Law Alerts
The Consumer Federation of America, along with 10 other advocacy groups, including Mozilla and the Internet Society, have sent an open letter to Target, Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart asking the retailers to endorse minimum privacy and security guidelines for connected...
by Kathy Ossian | May 6, 2019 | IT Law Alerts
A federal court in New Jersey has lifted a preliminary injunction enjoining former ADP salesmen from engaging in certain conduct alleged by ADP to violate non-compete provisions in their employment agreements. The injunction had been originally entered in June 2016,...
