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Company pays $40k settlement for allegedly scraping LinkedIn Corp.’s user data

USA - August 13 2014 Robocog, Inc., doing business as HiringSolved, allegedly scraped content from LinkedIn Corp.'s member data and displayed this information in their…

Robert H. Newman

Stolen laptop containing patient information results in $40,000 fine in Massachusetts

USA - January 13 2015 Last month, Boston Children's Hospital settled with the Massachusetts Attorney General for $40,000 following the theft of a hospital-issued physician…

Argentina creates national Do Not Call Registry

Argentina - August 25 2014 Argentina recently finalized a federal Do Not Call Registry statute, Law No. 26951 (available in Spanish), under which the national data protection…

Robert H. Newman

Dating site violated Canadian privacy law by continuing to use former customer’s personal information without consent

Canada - June 18 2014 The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently announced findings concerning the use of a former customer's personal information collected…

Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc., No. 2013-1472 and 2013-1656 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 5, 2016)

USA - September 20 2016 Decisions regarding enhanced damages applying the old Seagate standard require remand in light of the Supreme Court’s Halo decision