In late June, the National Consumers League (NCL) launched what it calls the “#DataInsecurity Project” to raise awareness of and push for action to improve consumer data security.  The NCL […]

In a speech delivered at a major meeting of state Attorneys General (AGs) in late July, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill emphasized the importance of state AGs’ role in privacy regulation […]

You probably remember the massive data breach that Sony Entertainment suffered back in April 2011 in its video game online network which exposed the personal information of approximately 77 million […]

On May 21st, eBay announced that it had experienced a data breach that had potentially affected all 145 million of its users.  In addition to the shock wave of bad […]

The hits just keep on coming for these two companies in the courts.  On May 2nd, Wyndham shareholders filed a derivative action in New Jersey, alleging that Wyndham’s Board of […]

Just three weeks prior to Los Angeles hosting HITEC 2015, the hospitality industry’s largest technology conference, the local ABC news affiliate reports on the lack of awareness around PCI Compliance […]

Yesterday, while banging around some golf balls at Pinehurst (pardon me while I name drop!) the guy next to me on the driving range joked with his buddy that the […]

Wyndham Worldwide is learning the hard way that the consequences of allegedly not taking adequate steps to prevent data breaches aren’t limited to customer complaints and government penalties.  In the […]

On April 17th, Wyndham Worldwide Corp. filed a motion in a New Jersey federal court arguing that the court’s April 7th rejection of the hotelier’s motion to dismiss in the […]

Speaking to a packed room of data privacy and corporate in-house attorneys at the American Bar Association Section of Litigation’s Annual Conference last week, Laura Berger, an attorney in the […]