by Amanda Fiorilla | Vice Chair of Data Privacy | Mar 28, 2025 | Blog, Data Privacy, Homepage
23andMe filed for bankruptcy after a major data breach. Learn what happens to your DNA data and what legal protections may apply. 23andMe was once all the rage. Everyone wanted to uncover their genetic makeup, health predispositions, and family history. It was a...
by Amanda Fiorilla | Vice Chair of Data Privacy | Mar 28, 2025 | Blog, Data Privacy, Homepage
A simple mistake gave a journalist front-row access to U.S. military secrets. But the real scandal? This kind of breach happens all the time—just not usually by our government. Earlier this week, The Atlantic reported a surprising breach of protocol: a top-level U.S....
by Christian Levis | Chair of Data Privacy | Jan 3, 2025 | Homepage, News
On December 31, 2024, Fumiko Lopez, Fumiko Lopez as guardian of A.L., a minor, John Troy Pappas, and David Yacubian–Plaintiffs in Lopez et al v. Apple Inc., No. 4:19-cv-04577-JSW (N.D. Cal)–moved for preliminary approval of a $95 million class action...
by Christian Levis | Chair of Data Privacy | Dec 10, 2024 | Blog, Homepage
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), by a 3-2 vote, recently adopted new rules and amendments pertaining to special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) (“SPAC Rules”)[1] to “enhance disclosures and provide additional investor protection”...
by Sylvie Bourassa | Nov 20, 2024 | Blog, Homepage
SolarWinds is a major software company that sells high-end software to governmental and private entities and provides system management tools for network and infrastructure monitoring to hundreds of thousands of organizations around the world. In December 2020,...
by Alesandra Greco | Nov 11, 2024 | Blog, Homepage
On August 23, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed two bills into law, the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 (the “Investment Act”), both of which were aimed to protect investors from a lack of disclosures. The main goal of...
