“Recently, the Chicago Tribune reported on a data breach involving student data stored by Pearson Clinical Assessment that may have involved a number of students at Illinois schools.”

 

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“Biometric data is playing a larger role in employment law as more employers begin using equipment to scan employees’ fingerprints to clock in for work.”

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Biometric data is playing a larger role in employment law as more employers begin using equipment to scan employees’ fingerprints to clock in for work.
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While some courts have found coverage for data breach claims under CGL policies, there should be little dispute that the best way to limit risk is to obtain a cyber policy rather than hoping for coverage under a CGL policy.
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Courts have generally defined “spoofing” as “the practice of disguising a commercial e-mail to make the e-mail appear to come from an address from which it did not originate. Spoofing involves placing in the ‘from’ or ‘reply-to’ lines, or in other portions of e-mail messages, an email address other than the actual sender’s address, without the consent or authorization of the user of the e-mail address whose address is spoofed.”
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Discussions on privacy laws have taken front and center in recent weeks as European Union (EU) member states begin enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) on May 25, 2018.  As we have been discussing for a while, there is confusion as data collectors try to figure out the impact of this legislation.  There is no question that large, multi-national corporations will have to comply and many of these corporations are already in compliance.  However, with this deadline just around the corner, smaller companies that do not actively target EU residents are struggling with how this legislation impacts them. [Read more…]