Are You Ready for Brazil’s New Data Protection Law?
27 December 2018
The Brazilian General Data Protection Law (“Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados” or “LGPD”), passed by Congress on 14 August 2018, will come into effect on...
Blog: Chronicle of Data Protection | 24 October 2013
Class action litigation challenging the practice of merchants that ask customers to provide their ZIP codes has expanded into the District of Columbia. In a suit filed earlier this year, plaintiffs alleged that retailers in the District of Columbia violated a law prohibiting the collection of addresses or telephone numbers incident to in-person credit card transactions when the retailers asked the plaintiffs to provide their ZIP codes at the point of sale. The suit represents an important new front in ZIP code litigation, which previously had been concentrated in California and Massachusetts, and has important implications for the ability of plaintiffs to establish standing in privacy-related actions more generally. For a detailed analysis of the case and its implications for the spread of class action litigation, read the InsideCounsel article authored by Hogan Lovells attorneys Des Hogan and Adam Cooke.