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Are Many Privacy Violations Also Data Breaches?

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Data breaches and privacy violations have long been thought of as different things, but actually, there is a lot of overlap. Two recent FTC cases address this issue. These cases involve the Health Breach Notification Rule, 16 CFR Part 318, which covers health data breaches beyond HIPAA. The Rule had long existed, but the FTC […]

Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It

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I recently gave a talk on Faculti about ideas in my recent book, BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press 2022), about how major security breaches could be prevented through new approaches to data security law.  The Faculti platform provides a library of 8,000 video and audio insights […]

Data Vu: Why Breaches Involve the Same Stories Again and Again

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Woodrow Hartzog and I wrote a new article about data breaches called “Data Vu: Why Breaches Involve the Same Stories Again and Again.” We discuss how data breaches involve the same old mistakes and how we must break the cycle. We begin: In the classic comedy Groundhog Day, protagonist Phil, played by Bill Murray, asks “What would […]

Key Quotes from BREACHED!

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Professor Woodrow Hartzog and I selected some key quotes from our new book, BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press 2022). Website for Breached!  Breached! Amazon Page Download Chapter 1 for free The Law’s Obsessive and Unproductive Focus on Data Breaches “Too much of the current law of data security […]

We Still Haven’t Learned the Major Lesson of the 2013 Target Hack

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I have an article with Professor Woodrow Hartzog in Slate created from an excerpt from our new book, Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve it We Still Haven’t Learned the Major Lesson of the 2013 Target Hack By Woodrow Hartzog & Daniel Solove Slate (April 13, 2022) You can read Chapter […]

Chronicle of a Breach Foretold – Download Chapter 1 of BREACHED!

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Professor Woodrow Hartzog and I have posted Chapter 1 of our new book, BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press 2022) on SSRN: Chapter 1: Chronicle of a Breach Foretold You can download it for free. Website for Breached!  Breached! Amazon Page * * * * This post was authored […]

BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press 2022)

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I’m delighted to announce that my new book, Breached!, with Professor Woodrow Hartzog is now out in print: BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press, March 1, 2022) Website for Breached!  Breached! Amazon Page Excerpt from the book jacket description: Drawing insights from many fascinating stories about data breaches, Solove […]

Covid-19 and Data Breach Litigation: An Interview of Daniel Raymond

The global pandemic has affected everything. COVID-19 is not just grinding trials to a halt and foreclosing live, in-person judicial proceedings, it has changed the class action litigation landscape, including data breach class actions. I recently had the opportunity to discuss the pandemic’s impact on data breach class actions with Daniel Raymond, a cyber & tech claims manager […]

Standing in Data Breach Cases: Why Harm Is Not “Manufactured”

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In a recent case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit weighed in on an issue that has continued to confound courts: Is there an injury caused by a data breach when victims don’t immediately suffer financial fraud?  I wrote on this issue in an article with Professor Danielle Citron in 2018, Risk and Anxiety: […]