Privacy, Technology, and Cybersecurity

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DiCello Levitt’s Privacy, Technology, and Cybersecurity Litigation Practice Group includes award-winning attorneys and skilled technologists who routinely represent consumers and public clients against some of the largest corporations in the country.

Our firm represents people and businesses affected by large data breaches and wrongful use of their private information. We have extensive experience holding large companies accountable, taking on the world’s tech giants and other powerful corporations for misusing and exposing consumers’ personal data. Our attorneys have played leading roles in some of the largest data breach, privacy, and technology settlements in the United States, winning significant motions and creating new legal theories and damages models that have been cited in numerous cases across the United States.

Focusing on information security and data breach cases, as well as data misuse and privacy violations, our firm’s attorneys have pioneered the practice by developing legal precedent in both state and federal courts and new standards for large settlements. Our practice group’s groundbreaking work includes developing case law establishing that personal information has value and that individuals who are victims of data security incidents may recover damages for taking steps to protect themselves from a company’s negligence. These cases have been cited hundreds of times and are credited with enshrining consumer protection principles in technology litigation.

[DiCello Levitt] has steered clients through a wide variety of class actions and individual litigation that have required a deep dive into complex legal questions and emerging technologies. The firm’s technology, cybersecurity and privacy practice, led by partner Amy E. Keller, has in particular found success in these efforts, with Keller having been tapped for leadership roles in high-stakes data breach and consumer protection disputes against industry heavyweights such as Equifax, Marriott and Apple.

Law360

To provide robust representation to plaintiffs affected by cybersecurity and data privacy matters, DiCello Levitt developed a first-of-its kind practice group with both a dedicated data breach section and a privacy section. In addition to being named Practice Group of the Year by The National Law Journal, we are the only law firm to be recognized by Law360 for three consecutive years as Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice Group of the Year for our role in some of the world’s most wide-reaching data privacy class action lawsuits to date, including multidistrict litigations against Google, Equifax, Marriott, Blackbaud, Amazon, and Facebook.

Our attorneys are heavily involved in advancing the law and participate in the Sedona Conference’s Working Group 11 on privacy and cybersecurity, the American Law Institute, the American Association for Justice, and the Public Justice Foundation. Through our work in these organizations, we have testified before lawmakers about consumers’ experiences, developed model practices and legislation related to privacy and cybersecurity, and have written amicus briefs on behalf of not-for-profit entities advocating for consumer protections.

Our deep bench of experienced attorneys have the technical know-how and litigation acumen to secure compensation for our clients and restrain future corporate misconduct.

Representative Matters

• In re Facebook Internet Tracking Litigation

Achieved a substantial settlement on behalf of a class of consumers against Facebook, alleging Facebook inappropriately collected user data and sold it to third parties. The watershed case reinforces the notion that privacy violations are concrete injuries.

• In re Blackbaud, Inc., Customer Data Breach Litigation

Represent a class of consumers as Co-Lead Counsel against Blackbaud whose lax security measures exposed sensitive information in a data breach. The case set a precedent that individual consumers can sue a third-party data broker for its security failures.

• In re Equifax, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation

Secured the largest data breach settlement in history as Co-Lead Counsel against Equifax. The settlement included binding commitments from Equifax to institute third-party monitoring of expert recommended security features going forward and a guarantee to provide credit monitoring for every class member who requested it, potentially more than $3,000,000,000 in damages.

• In re Google RTB Consumer Privacy Litigation

Represent a class of consumers as Executive Committee member against Google for breaching its contractual promise not to sell users’ personal information by rebroadcasting data during real time bidding auctions, exposing the data to potential ad buyers and participants surveilling the auctions with no intent to purchase ads.

• In re Marriott International, Inc., Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig.

Represent a class of nearly 400 million consumers as Co-Lead Counsel against Marriott for a data breach that exposed sensitive personal information and then failing to timely notify the victims. The district court’s rulings in favor of the class are now routinely cited in cybersecurity cases.