Posts from May 2015.
The Third Circuit has published extensively in recent years on the issue of ascertainability. In its fifth ruling in three years on this subject, the court reversed certification of a class of consumers who had leased or purchased laptop computers that contained unauthorized spyware.
The U.S. Supreme Court accepted jurisdiction over Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins to answer this question: May Congress confer Article III standing upon a plaintiff who suffers no concrete harm and who could, therefore, not otherwise invoke the jurisdiction of a federal court by authorizing a private right of action based on a bare violation of a federal ...
A recent New York Times piece confirms that federal lawmakers are, slowly but surely, taking data breach and cybersecurity issues more and more seriously each day.