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Facebook fined €265Million for exposing PII of half a billion users!

Vogel IT Law

HealthCareInfoSecurity.com reported that “A user of the now-shuttered BreachForums in April 2021 posted a data set of 533 million Facebook profiles, including mobile numbers, email addresses and names scraped from the site in 2018 and 2019.” Facebook reported revenue of $23 billion in 2022 and $39 billion in 2021.

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Data Breach Report: The Good, The Bad, It is All Ugly

Liquid Litigation Management, Inc.

As we’ve seen with the recent Equifax settlement, data breaches can have a huge impact on organizations and those individuals effected. The first heading of the report says it all, “2018 – Some Better, Some Worse, All Bad.” Data breaches were down 3.2 led with an estimated loss of $45 billion in 2018.

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The CLOUD Act and the Warrant Canaries That (Sometimes) Live There

Discovery Advocate

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (Pub. 115-141 (2018), or the CLOUD Act, was enacted in the U.S. on March 23, 2018, in response to difficulties U.S. Microsoft litigation, in which Microsoft had argued that it was not required to provide access to its users’ private data stored on Dublin servers.

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Fourth Circuit Decision Highlights Class Action Waivers for Data Breaches are Alive and Well

Technology Law Dispatch

On August 18, 2023, the Fourth Circuit decertified approximately 20 million putative class action claims arising out of a 2018 data breach involving Marriott Hotels. While this lawsuit arose as a result of a data breach, all companies transacting business on the internet are potentially liable to class action claims.

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The Supreme Court’s Decision in Lloyd v Google: What Impact on UK Mass Claims?

Debevoise Data Blog

Mr Lloyd alleged that Google breached its duties as a data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”) when it implemented the ‘Safari Workaround’. Google was initially successful before the first instance judge in 2018. This was reversed by the Court of Appeal in 2019.

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The Challenges That AI Poses for Data Minimization

Debevoise Data Blog

Regulatory Requirements to Get Rid of Old Data Data-minimization laws generally provide that nonpublic data should be kept until it is no longer needed either for legitimate business purposes or legal reasons, such as a pending litigation or a regulatory requirement. Anonymizing Data after One Year.

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The Future of Legal Tech: How Technology Is Transforming the Business of Law

MatterSuite

billion by 2023, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 10% from 2018. E-Discovery and Document Management Electronic Discovery: E-discovery platforms such as RelativityOne and Everlaw automate the identification, collection, and analysis of electronic documents during litigation.