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FTC Issues Policy Statement Regarding Biometric Information
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a policy statement on May 18, 2023, addressing concerns relating to the collection and use of biometric information. The Biometrics Policy Statement, which the FTC’s Commissioners voted 3-0 to issue, outlines practices related to biometric information that the FTC views as violations or will take into account when evaluating…
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FTC Proposes Health Breach Notification Rule Amendments
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), at its May 18, 2023, open Commission meeting, voted unanimously to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to amend the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR). The FTC’s proposed amendment aims to codify the HBNR’s application to digital health and mobile technologies, as the FTC initially set forth in its 2021…
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Generative Artificial Intelligence, Data Minimization, and the Gold Rush of the Early 2020s
In the United States, the principle of data minimization is embedded firmly within the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, through FTC enforcement activities, and in the host of state-level privacy laws and rules that have proliferated in recent years….By: ArentFox Schiff
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Columbus Regional Healthcare System Reportedly Experienced Data Breach Following Ransomware Attack
On June 9, 2023, reports began to surface about a possible data breach at Columbus Regional Healthcare System (“CRHS”). Evidently, the Daixin ransomware gang confirmed that it orchestrated a ransomware attack against CRHS and, after the North Carolina-based healthcare system failed to meet the hackers’ demands, plans to leak an untold amount of confidential patient…
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Pioneer Valley Ophthalmic Consultants, PC Files Notice of Third-Party Data Breach
On May 22, 2023, Pioneer Valley Ophthalmic Consultants, PC (“PVOC”) filed a notice of data breach with the Vermont Attorney General. PVOC filed this notice after learning that a data security incident at a third-party vendor, Alta Medical Management, resulted in the confidential information of PVOC patients being subject to unauthorized access. Based on the…
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Product Manufacturers Beware: You May Be Subject to Jurisdiction in Massachusetts
Say you are a Floridian product manufacturer that does business in Massachusetts and you receive a Complaint filed in Massachusetts that alleges your product injured a Nova Scotian resident in Nova Scotia. You know that the only time that product was in Massachusetts was during its transport up the eastern seaboard to its final destination…
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CIBT, Inc. Notifies Employees and Customers of Recent Data Breach
On June 8, 2023, CIBT, Inc. (“CIBT Visas”) filed a notice of data breach with the Maine Attorney General after confirming that suspicious activity on the company’s computer network was the result of a recent cyberattack. Based on the company’s official filing, the incident resulted in an unauthorized party gaining access to consumers’ names, addresses,…
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Ringing the Bell(wether): Multibillion Dollar Settlement Reported in PFAS Litigation
The first bellwether trial in the massive Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF/PFAS) multi-district products liability litigation MDL-2873 (MDL) was delayed pending finalizing a reported $10 billion financial settlement by the largest of the manufacturing defendants. In granting the delay, the Court ordered weekly updates and a final report no later than June 26, with trial to…
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NATO Members’ Major Air Exercise Sends Message to Russia
More than 200 planes from 25 countries gathered in Germany for the largest-scale war games in decades, held with an eye on the war in Ukraine.
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Ukraine Claims More Small Advances in Counteroffensive
Military analysts said it would take weeks or months to gauge the success of the attacks Ukraine mounted last week across a broad stretch of the front lines.
