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Do company executives breach their fiduciary duty by how they handle data security or in the methods of handling data breaches?
A lawfirm is investigating whether executives at Home Depot breached their fiduciary duty by failing to protect against the Home Depot data breach.
Data privacy is the new frontier for property rights. People fiercely want to protect their personal data. It gets tricky when the person trying to protect their data is a public school teacher.
A parent in Virginia sued to have teacher evaluations released.
The first court sided with the parent to allow for the release of teacher evaluations. The suit is on appeal. Teacher groups refer to the release of evaluations as an invasion of privacy. It’ll be fought to the Suprem…
A Portland Uber driver is the named plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Uber for a 2014 data breach.
The breach disclosed personal information for 50,000 Uber drivers. The lawsuit alleges that Uber took 5 months to disclose the data breach, which violates California law. California statutes require employers to protect the personal information of employees.
Antman v. Uber Technologies Inc, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No. 15-1175<...
A glut of credit card and financial data on the black market has driven down its price. As a result, hackers are targeting more lucrative health care records.
Health care records are selling for as much as 7 times the value of financial data on the black market. Legal Intelligencer
1. More respect for financial institutions in courts. Data breaches lead to law suits. Law suits lead to multiple law suits. Multiple law suits become class action law suits. High dollar class action lawsuits are facing Target and Home Depot.
2. Push for national data breach legislation by multi-state companies.
3. More health care data breaches.
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A student at the Univeristy of Oregon, Go Ducks!, alleges she was raped by 3 basketball players. The University found the sudents at fault and kicked them out of school and off the basketball team. After the alleged rape, the student sought treatment at the student health center. Her treatment included mental health care. She eventually sued the school as the alleged offenders were never tried for a crime. During the lawsuit her mental health records, when she sought care … A data breach of medical records at an Ohio hospital system has led to a $5,000,000 class action lawsuit. It took 4 months for the hospital system to notify patients of the data breach. The legal complaint is based on the medical records data breach creating a “threat of immediate harm has injured her privacy as a result of negligence.” Hailed as a victory for plaintiff’s lawyers, class actions are proceeding for data breaches at Target and Sony. Since the February breach at Anthem, more than 40 class action lawsuits have been filed. Legal experts say data breach cases move forward when the plaintiff can allege: The FBI is investigating whether hacked tax information was used to file fraudulent state and federal tax returns without the original taxpayer’s knowledge. The fraudulent state and federal tax filings are impacting businesses and individuals. Last week Anthem experienced a data security breach that resulted in the exposure of personal information for up to 80 million people. This week, a class action lawsuit has been filed in Atlanta. Here’s what plaintiffs allege:HIPPA and Higher Education Student Data Privacy Collide in Lawsuit
Hospital System Sued for $5,000,000 over data breach
40 Class Action Law Suits From Anthem Inc. Data Breach
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Data Breaches Lead to Tax Man Problems
Breach Leads to Class Action. Rinse. Repeat.