The Houston Rockets NBA basketball franchise recently announced that it is investigating a ransomware attack that was partially prevented by internal security tools. According to the team, “unknown actors attempted to install ransomware on certain internal systems at the Rockets. However, our internal security tools prevented ransomware from being installed except for a few systems
Facial Scan Case Dismissed Under Illinois Biometrics Law
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
The developers of two NBA video games were successful this week in getting a putative class action alleging violations of the Illinois Biometrics law dismissed.
Two named plaintiffs alleged that the video games violated the Illinois Biometrics Information Privacy Act (BIPA) because the game developer failed to get the gamers’ permission prior to using and…