The Weekly Privacy Rewind

By Aaron Lancaster on September 5, 2018 Posted in Weekly Privacy Rewind

Class Actions San Francisco Transit Agency Seeks Approval of Class Action Settlement • Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) sought preliminary approval of a class action settlement to resolve claims that the transit agency’s mobile app secretly collected various information about its users, including mobile device ID number and location, even when users are not reporting … Continue Reading

Deeper Dive: Clapper Divide Expands In Data Breach Cases

By Sean McIntyre on June 13, 2017 Posted in Privacy Class Actions, Privacy Litigation

As reported in our 2017 Data Security Incident Response Report, plaintiffs allege potential future harm as a basis for injury in 80 percent of data breach lawsuits. But are allegations of future harm sufficient to meet Article III’s cases-and-controversies requirement, specifically with regard to the injury-in-fact element of standing? Despite the prevalence of these allegations, … Continue Reading

Concrete and Particularized: What the Supreme Court’s Spokeo Ruling May Mean for Privacy Class Actions and Big Data – the First in a Series

By Tanya Forsheit on May 16, 2016 Posted in Online Privacy, Privacy Class Actions

This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Robins v. Spokeo, No. 13–1339, 578 U. S. ____ (2016), putting to rest months of speculation as to whether the Court could come to a meaningful decision (that would be anything other than 4-4) in the aftermath of Justice Scalia’s passing in … Continue Reading