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Webinar – Privacy Litigation

Privacy litigation is on the rise. In this webinar, we discuss cases arising out of the use of tracking technologies and other types of technologies such as biometric identification. We will talk about the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and Telephone Communication Protection […]

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

Data Breach Standing - 11th Circuit

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: […]

Privacy Harms

Privacy Harms

Professor Danielle Keats Citron (University of Virginia School of Law) and I have just posted a draft of our new article, Privacy Harms, on SSRN (free download). Here’s the abstract: Privacy harms have become one of the largest impediments in privacy law enforcement. In most tort and contract cases, plaintiffs must establish that they have […]