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Court finds allegations of harm sufficient to allow breach-related class action suit to proceed

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 22 2011

On April 11, 2011, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California declined to dismiss four of the nine claims in a class action lawsuit filed against RockYou, Inc. (“RockYou”), a publisher and developer of applications used on popular social media sites

HHS delays enforcement of HITECH Act business associate provisions

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 19 2010

We understand that yesterday Adam H. Greene (Office of the General Counsel, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services), speaking at the ABA’s 11th Annual Conference on Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law, indicated that enforcement of the business associate provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the “HITECH Act”), which became effective on February 17, 2010, will be delayed until final rules addressing those provisions are published

HHS issues final omnibus rule modifying HIPAA privacy, security, enforcement and breach notification rules

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 18 2013

On January 17, 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") issued a Final Omnibus Rule modifying the Privacy, Security and Enforcement

California ruling permits collection of ZIP codes after receipt is provided to customer

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2013

As reported in BNA's Privacy & Security Law Report, on December 14, 2012, a federal district court in California ruled that a retail store's policy

FTC requests information about data brokerage companies’ collection and use of personal data

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

On December 18, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission issued Orders to File Special Report (the “Orders”) to nine data brokerage companies, seeking information about how these companies collect and use personal data about consumers

German Federal Office for information security issues guidance on consumerization and BYOD

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 7 2013

On February 4, 2013, the German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik or "BSI") published

Massachusetts hospital settles data breach lawsuit

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 7 2012

On May 24, 2012, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced that South Shore Hospital agreed to a consent judgment and $750,000 payment to settle a lawsuit stemming from a data breach that occurred in February 2010

FTC won’t delay COPPA Rule implementation deadline

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

On May 6, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had voted unanimously to reject a request from industry groups to delay the July 1

California AG’s mobile app case against Delta dismissed

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

A state court has dismissed the California Attorney General's claims that Delta Air Lines Inc. ("Delta") violated the California Online Privacy

FTC's first safe harbor enforcement action

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • September 8 2009

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has secured a temporary restraining order against a company that allegedly falsely claimed to have self-certified to the EUUS Safe Harbor Program