Contracting for Cloud Computing Services
Nearly every day, businesses are entering into arrangements to save the enterprise what appear to be significant sums on information technology infrastructure by placing corporate data ‘‘in the...
View ArticleInformation Security Standards and Certifications in Contracting
When organizations contract for outsourced IT services, they look for assurances that the vendor will provide adequate security, often in the form of a security schedule or annex to the contract, or by...
View Article“Damages” Last Stand – Maine Supreme Court Puts an End to the Hannaford Bros....
We have been following the twists and turns of the Hannaford Bros. security breach litigation from the beginning (see here, here, here, here and here). As of yesterday, it looks like the consumer...
View ArticleCourt in Domain Hijacking Case, Reminds Parties: You Can’t Contractually...
As a big fan of the late Paul Harvey, who’s signature closing catch-phrase was “and now you know the rest of the story,” there are times that posts analyzing cases, statutes or developments are held...
View ArticleIL Appellate Court: No Duty Exists to Safeguard SSNs for Purposes of a...
In one of InfoLawGroup’s first blogposts to kick off 2011 we surveyed a handful of privacy lawsuits that are in the process of potentially altering the privacy and security legal risk landscape. ILG...
View ArticleCalifornia Federal Court Holds that Damages Properly Alleged in RockYou Data...
In what may be a sign of an evolving judicial atmosphere and approach concerning data breach lawsuits, a Federal judge in the Northern District of California recently refused to dismiss various causes...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Holds Identity Theft Insurance/Credit Monitoring Costs...
In a significant development that could materially increase the liability risk associated with payment card security breaches (and personal data security breaches, in general), the U.S. Court of...
View ArticleEleventh Circuit Rules “Damages” Properly Alleged in Data Breach-Identity...
InfoLawGroup Counsel Andrew L. Hoffman contributed to this post. In a case of first impression in the Eleventh Circuit, the Court ruled in a 2-1 opinion that the plaintiffs in a putative class action...
View ArticleCourt Refuses to Enter Injunction Requiring Tortious Content to be Taken Off...
Plaintiff obtained a jury verdict and almost $200,000 in damages over an article in a trade association publication that cast him in a false light. When the publication kept the offending article on...
View ArticleDoes Clapper Silence Data Breach Litigation? A Two-Year Retrospective
This February 26, 2015, marks the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA,[1] which required plaintiffs to allege that a threatened injury is...
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