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What happened that led to a lawsuit? A health care network experienced a data breach, followed its internal protocols to handle the data breach.
What did the plaintiff’s allege that the health care network didn’t do that caused them harm? health network had violated the HITECH Act in protecting personal health information
What did the courts say? “There is no case law that suggests that an isolated privacy breach or discrete series of related breaches constitute a violation of the…
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Spec’s experienced a data breach that resulted in legal fees. Spec’s was insured and has sued its insurer over the coverage of costs incurred from the data breach.
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What happened to spark stronger student data privacy protections? A court allowed for the release of student data to a group of parents who are fighting a court battle over the quality of education for disabled students.
What data do legislators want to prevent schools from releasing?
What is the nobel purpose of the legislative action? Schools collect data that is neither…
What data is being collected and sold by electronic devices? Smart televisions gather information about viewing habits and that data is sold to third parties .
Do owners of smart tvs know or have they consented to the data collection? According to a series of law suits, no, owners neitehr know of the data collection nor consent to it.
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What class action is progressing? The suit involving the Anthem Inc. health breach that affected 97 million.
What did the judge do that allowed the class action to move forward? Rejected Anthem’s argument that a data breach is not a recognizeable injury
What does this mean? Courts have split on whether a data breach, with no proof that the stolen data has been used to cause a harm, is enough of an injury to satisfy a lawsuit. The California Judge’s order says it is enough of an injury…
What regulation proposals are floating around related to connected cars and data security?
What‘s happening? Affinity Gmaing, owners of 11 casinos, is suing the company it hired to contain a data breach.
How is this relevant to Texas government? Pay close attention to the enforcement actions and lawsuits that emerge from the federal government OPM data breach in which the company hired for remediation.
Why is this important? the laws related to data security are chaning at lightening fast speed. Faster than a lobbyist can walk, and on a very complex, technical topic which…
Why is GM embracing white hat hackers? To help identify and notify of security risks.
What’s the industry response? Just announed Detroit’s first public security vulnerability disclosure program bringing together GM and HackerOne
What’s the benefit to white hat hackers? As long as thehackers follow basic published protocols, the hackers can challenge security without legal repercussions.
So, its creating charitable immunity for white hat hackers? in contract form, yes. It allows…