Jorja Siemons reports: An insurance company has a duty to defend a supermarket facing a former employee’s allegations that it violated her privacy rights, an Illinois federal court said in an opinion Thursday. Society Insurance had asked the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to declare that it owed no insurance coverage to Cermak…
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Mobile Data Broker Kochava Must Face Consumer Privacy Suit
Andrea Vittoria reports: Kochava Inc. failed to avoid a privacy lawsuit accusing the mobile analytics company of gathering consumers’ information, including location and spending habits data, without their knowledge. Consumers didn’t properly agree to share the data “secretly” collected from their mobile phones, a judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of…
Cyberattacks And Compromise of Attorney Client Confidences
Scott Greenfield comments on a ruling previously noted on this site: In an underappreciated ruling, District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the multinational law firm Covington & Burling must comply with an SEC subpoena requiring the firm to give up the names of clients, publicly-traded corporations, in order for the SEC to investigate whether…
Kr: PIPC Imposes a New Round of Sanctions against Meta Inc, Meta Ireland, and Instagram
July 27, 2023 (This is an unofficial and modified translation from a Korean-language press release.) On July 26, the Personal Information Protection Commission (“PIPC”) held a plenary meeting and reached a decision to impose administrative fines of approximately KRW 6.5 billion (approx. USD 5.1 million) against Meta Platforms, Ireland Limited (“Meta Ireland”) and KRW 886…