Privacy & Cybersecurity

District Court Finds Allegations That Data Breach Exposed Publicly Available and Non-Sensitive Personal Information Sufficient for Article III Standing

A federal court in California found that customers have the right to sue Facebook over a 2016 data breach—even though the leaked information was publicly available —potentially signaling an expansion of consumers’ ability to maintain data breach class actions.

July 1, 2019

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