The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release announcing it is holding an Identity Theft Awareness Week between February 1-5, 2021. The week will be comprised of a series of events providing consumers with helpful information to reduce their risk of identity theft and discussing concrete steps consumers can take to recover if identity
Last week, Judge Sue Myerscough declined to certify a class of employees whose personal information was disclosed when Driveline Retail Merchandising fell prey to a phishing scam. While nearly 16,000 employees were allegedly affected, “issues of causation and injury” were insufficiently common to satisfy the requirements for class certification.
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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson recently announced priorities for his 2021 legislative agenda. These priorities include public safety and criminal justice reform, tribal treaty rights, and protecting consumers. With respect to the last priority on consumer protection, Attorney General Ferguson is supporting two bills in the Washington legislature:
In Wengui v. Clark Hill, PLC, Judge Boasberg of the District Court for the District of Columbia, granted the plaintiff’s motion to compel the defendant to produce a report and additional materials associated with a cyberattack. In its ruling, the court emphasized that materials that would otherwise be created in the ordinary course of
On January 20, the White House announced the acting agency leadership in the next phase of the transition of government. As part of that transition, President Joe Biden appointed Dave Uejio to serve as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This news followed on the same day Director Kraninger, appointed by
On January 11, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it has settled with a California-based photo app developer involving allegations that it was building and using its users’ photos and videos to create facial recognition technology without their express consent.
Facial recognition software is typically comprised of three steps: detection, mapping, and identification. During the
On January 18, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy appointed Clyde “Ed” Sniffen to be Alaska’s next attorney general, subject to approval by the Alaska legislature. Sniffen has served as acting attorney general since the resignation of Kevin Clarkson in August 2020.
In December 2020, Sniffen was among the state attorneys general who supported an amicus brief
A federal court in California has ruled that the plaintiff in a putative class action alleging theft of non-sensitive personal information arising from a cybersecurity data breach lacks Article III standing to maintain his claims. In Rahman v. Marriott International, Inc., the Plaintiff asserted claims for violation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”),
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will soon fall under the leadership of an aggressive consumer advocate. On January 18, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he will nominate current Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Rohit Chopra to be the next director of the agency.
A CFPB veteran, Chopra holds a B.A. from Harvard and an
A group of state attorneys general, led by New York A.G. Letitia James, are attempting to stop the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) from implementing its new True Lender Rule that is now in effect. The state attorneys general allege that by implementing the Rule, the OCC is once again fostering