BIPA Settlement Could Spur Defendants to Take Cases to Trial
A landmark federal settlement resolving an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act case could lead to more companies taking their cases to trial, lawyers said.
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Health insurers and US government officials are expected to meet next week to hash out differences over how to assist cash-strapped medical practices, as a cyberattack last month continues to hold up billions of dollars in payments.
A landmark federal settlement resolving an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act case could lead to more companies taking their cases to trial, lawyers said.
Illinois lawmakers are working to curb potential damages under the state’s biometric privacy law for companies that don’t secure written permission first to collect fingerprints, face scans, and other data.
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Justices and judges must now disclose the value of free trips like those taken by Justice Clarence Thomas at the expense of a billionaire benefactor.
As senators squabble about the theoretical vulnerability of those who use TikTok, they might want to find more time to give greater consideration to a clear and present danger erupting within the US health-care system: the continuing cyberattack that has put at risk the medical data of 79 million Americans and thrown health-care services into disarray.
Business information and analytics provider ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. defeated all but one of 14 counts in a lawsuit alleging it scraped information from the emails of nonusers of its services without their consent in violation of federal and state privacy laws.
Threats of data breaches and cyber-attacks keep chief legal officers and general counsels up at night—even if they don’t directly oversee security at their companies.
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A landmark federal settlement resolving an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act case could lead to more companies taking their cases to trial, lawyers said.
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