Tag Archives: VPPA

Privacy Class Actions: Year-in-Review

By Erica Gann Kitaev on January 4, 2013 Posted in Privacy Class Actions, Privacy Litigation

During 2012, privacy class actions continued to trend toward two major categories: 1) actions that arose out of a data breach event and 2) actions brought to prosecute an alleged consumer privacy right. Article III Standing in Data Breach Class Actions A key issue in data breach class actions is the question of what types … Continue Reading

Proposed Privacy Law Amendments: Senate Judiciary Committee Fails to Take Up ECPA and VPPA Amendments

By Erica Gann Kitaev on September 14, 2012 Posted in Online Privacy

Editor’s Note: This post is a joint submission to BakerHostetler’s Discovery Advocate blog. The Senate Judiciary Committee was slated on Thursday to take up long overdue revisions to the Electronic Communications Protection Act (“ECPA”) and the Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), but the issue was held over by the committee. Chairman of the committee, Senator … Continue Reading