Today, in a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that the government’s acquisition of information regarding an individual’s location based on a cell phone record amounts to a Fourth Amendment search and generally requires a warrant. In Carpenter v. United States, the government obtained nearly 13,000 location points on Carpenter’s movements over a
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SCOTUS Denies Cert on CareFirst: No Clarity on Harm in Data Breach Cases This Session
By Daniel J. Kagan on
Posted in Data Breach
On February 16, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari to review CareFirst’s appeal of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit’s decision in Attias v. Carefirst, Inc., 865 F.3d 620 (D.C. Cir. 2017). The D.C. Circuit held that the threat of harm from a data breach is enough to satisfy the “injury in…