Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act

This article co-authored with guest blogger Leonel Gonzalez, a R+C summer associate and student at Roger Williams University School of Law

Niantic Inc. (Niantic), developer of the mobile game “Pokemon GO,” was sued in Florida court on July 27, 2016. The named plaintiff, David Beckman filed the complaint against Niantic claiming the game’s terms of

We previously reported [view related post] that 21st Century Oncology had suffered a data breach and notified 2.2 million patients that it had been the victim of a hacking that exposed the names, Social Security numbers, physicians’ names, diagnosis information, and insurance information of its patients.

Although the intrusion occurred in October 2015,