Deserving of a fairly large yawn, the International Data Privacy Day came on a Saturday this year.  The US sponsors — who are basically large tech companies — can hardly be faulted for failing to elevate today to true holiday status.   In Europe, the festivities are equally lame.  Last year, it was not much [...]

On January 25, 2012, the European Union will announce a comprehensive reform of its data protection rules.  This proposed shift will likely toughen existing data-protection requirements and, according to one published report, will include a new rule requiring companies to disclose data breaches within 24 hours of the breach – in effect leapfrogging the toughest [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Reilly v. Ceridian Corporation, 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 24561, 3 (3d Cir., December 12, 2011), found that “allegations of an increased risk of identity theft resulting from a security breach” were insufficient to secure Article III standing.  In so doing, the court affirmed the dismissal of [...]