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Another Missive from the Data Breach Front: Remote Risk of Identity Theft Does Not Confer Standing in Allison v. Aetna
Allison v. Aetna, Inc., a recent opinion out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, adds to the burgeoning area of law that holds when a plaintiff fails to allege an actual injury resulting from a data breach, but…
FTC Plans for Internet Privacy Framework
This post was written by Alysa Z. Hutnik . On Tuesday, April 26, 2010, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it intends to develop Internet privacy guidelines. The guidelines will examine social…
UPDATE: Data Breaches on the Rise in 2010
Updating a previous post regarding the rise last year in the number of data breaches involving customers’ personal information in the general business sector, the numbers of these breaches for the first third of…
10 Data Protection Regulators Issue Letter to Google
This post was written by Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik . On April 19, 2010, data protection authorities from Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the United…
Maine Repeals Law Prohibiting Marketing to Children
In a post last month, we wrote that a Maine legislative committee had voted to repeal a recently-enacted online marketing law and predicted that the full legislature would soon repeal the law. Since then, Maine…