This week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, no softies, allowed a class-action lawsuit against Neiman Marcus to proceed based not only on demonstrated harm, but also potential future harms arising from the luxury department store’s data breach in 2013. This, writes IAPP VP of Research and Education Omer Tene for Privacy Tracker, is potentially a very big deal. “That sound you hear,” he writes, “is the collective sigh of contentment of a thousand plaintiffs' lawyers.”
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