Trump Hotel Cyber Suit Is A Cautionary Tale

Trump International Hotels recently became the latest target of a major data breach class action lawsuit, joining – among others – another player in the hospitality industry, Wyndham Worldwide Corp, and Google, which has been hit with a class action suit pertaining to information sharing and Google Wallet. These and numerous other actions in both the class action and regulatory arena have a common element: the case is all or in part based on an alleged failure to follow expressed privacy policies or, in some cases, formalized industry standards. The message of this post from SheppardMullin: Make sure your privacy and data-protection practice lives up to the standards you have made proclaimed.