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May 06, 2024 - Privacy
Getting BIPA Right: Biometric Identifiers Must Identify
By: Purvi G. Patel and Elisabeth Hutchinson
The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”), 740 ILCS 14/1 et. seq., is one of the most hotly litigated privacy statutes in the country. As it stands, there is no clear appellate authority on BIPA’s reach in at least one critical aspect. Namely, whether
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December 12, 2023 - Privacy, Autonomous Vehicles & Robotics, Environmental Law, Internet of Things
Privacy + Data Security Predictions for 2024
By: Miriam H. Wugmeister, Alex van der Wolk, Linda K. Clark, Annabel Gillham, Haimavathi V. Marlier, Paul D. McKenzie, Nathaniel R. Mendell, Gordon A. Milner, Alja Poler De Zwart, Chuan Sun, Yukihiro Terazawa, Hanno Timner, Lokke Moerel, Mary Race, Marijn Storm, Dan Alam, Jasmine Arooni, Tingting Gao, Marta Hovanesian, Elisabeth Hutchinson, Michelle Si-Ting Luo and Mercedes Samavi
The Morrison Foerster Privacy + Data Security team is unmatched in its ability to provide creative and practical advice concerning all stages of the information life cycle, from counseling on compliance with complex privacy laws, to resolving breach situations, to litigating privacy and data security
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May 18, 2023 - Class Action, Privacy
2023 Class Action Law Forum Recap: Privacy Class Actions Panel
By: Lauren N. Margolies
As more organizations collect data to enhance their products or services, privacy is in the forefront of everyone’s minds, earning it a place in the class action spotlight. At the 2023 Class Action Law Forum, the Honorable Vince Chhabria (Northern District of California), Jean Martin
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April 05, 2023 - Class Action, Privacy, Appellate & Supreme Court
No Injury, No Data Breach Claims? Recent Trends in Evaluating Standing in Data Breach Class Actions
A key contested issue in data breach class actions is whether plaintiffs can satisfy Article III’s injury-in-fact requirement by alleging risk of future harm rather than actual misuse of plaintiffs’ personal information. As the number of data breach class actions filed continues to rise,
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April 03, 2023 - Class Action, Consumer Products, Privacy, Retail
Applying BIPA’s Health Care Exemption to Virtual Try-On Technologies in Light of Dior Dismissal
By: Melissa M. Crespo and Morgan O'Neill Mitruka
A recent putative class action case against luxury brand Christian Dior sheds light on the health care exemption in the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA). In Delma Warmack-Stillwell v. Christian Dior Inc ., the plaintiff alleged Dior’s virtual try-on feature for sunglasses violated BIPA’s
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February 09, 2023 - Class Action, Privacy, TCPA
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: TCPA Litigation
By: Adam J. Hunt and Tiffani B. Figueroa
In the final installment of our Privacy Litigation Year in Review series, we focus on important developments in TCPA litigation. Following the Supreme Court’s adoption of a narrow definition of “autodialers” (ATDS) in the 2021 case Facebook v. Duguid , courts across the country
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February 01, 2023 - Class Action, Consumer Products, Privacy
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: CCPA Litigation & Enforcement
By: Purvi G. Patel and Dillon Kraus
In part four of our Privacy Litigation Year in Review series, we discuss courts’ continuing efforts to construe the private right of action provision in the California Consumer Privacy Act. Last year, we noted that plaintiffs were trying to stretch the CCPA’s private right
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January 25, 2023 - Class Action, Privacy
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: Data Breach Litigation
By: Matt Wyatt
022 was another record-setting year for data breach class actions. Here’s our take on the key developments and trends we have seen over the past year, as well as what we should watch for in 2023. We count 43 major data breach class actions
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January 19, 2023 - Class Action, Consumer Products, Privacy, Retail
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)
By: Tiffany Cheung
Second in our Privacy Litigation Year in Review series is an overview of cases under Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). In 2022, Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) litigation was bustling. Defendants in BIPA cases ranged from pharmacies, insurance companies, and social media
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January 12, 2023 - Class Action, Consumer Products, Privacy, Retail
Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: Wiretapping Litigation
By: Purvi G. Patel and Erik Manukyan
2022 brought a new wave of data privacy lawsuits seeking to impose wiretapping liability on website operators and their service providers—just as the dust settled on the first wave. To date, plaintiffs have filed over 120 such lawsuits across nine jurisdictions (California, Florida, Illinois,
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Topic Archives: Privacy

Getting BIPA Right: Biometric Identifiers Must Identify

By: Purvi G. Patel and Elisabeth Hutchinson

Privacy + Data Security Predictions for 2024

2023 Class Action Law Forum Recap: Privacy Class Actions Panel

By: Lauren N. Margolies

No Injury, No Data Breach Claims? Recent Trends in Evaluating Standing in Data Breach Class Actions

Applying BIPA’s Health Care Exemption to Virtual Try-On Technologies in Light of Dior Dismissal

By: Melissa M. Crespo and Morgan O'Neill Mitruka

Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: TCPA Litigation

By: Adam J. Hunt and Tiffani B. Figueroa

Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: CCPA Litigation & Enforcement

By: Purvi G. Patel and Dillon Kraus

Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: Data Breach Litigation

By: Matt Wyatt

Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)

By: Tiffany Cheung

Privacy Litigation 2022 Year in Review: Wiretapping Litigation

By: Purvi G. Patel and Erik Manukyan