CommLaw Monitor
FTC Seeks to Bring Telecom Carriers within the Scope of New Data Security and Data Breach Legislation
This entry was drafted by Telecom Partner John Heitmann Yesterday, the FTC testified before a Senate Subcommittee and recommended that proposed data security legislation introduced by Senators Pryor (D., AR) and…
Privacy a Growing Concern for Broadband Service Providers
Online privacy concerns have been a hot topic in Washington recently. The FCC, which is charged with spurring broadband deployment, adoption and innovation, recently concluded that privacy concerns are creating an…
California's Song-Beverly Credit Card Act: The Past, Present, and Future
Last week the BNA Privacy & Security Law Report published an article discussing in detail California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act (the “Act”). The aim of the article is to provide those persons and businesses that…
S.D.N.Y: Plaintiffs Asserting Claims Based on Risk of Identity Theft Lack Standing
The Southern District of New York, recently, in Hammond v. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., No. 08-6060, 2010 WL 2643307 (S.D.N.Y. June 25, 2010) joined other courts from around the country in holding that…
Identify Theft Litigation Update: Ninth Circuit Upholds Dismissal Of Speculative Claims
Updating a prior post, the Ninth Circuit, in Ruiz v. Gap, Inc., recently upheld a dismissal on summary judgment on the grounds that the mere risk of identity theft is too speculative of an injury to substantiate a…