This post is the second in a series collecting predictions from legal and business experts about the directions cyberlaw policy might take in 2013, solicited by editors of BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report during the closing weeks of 2012. We asked that the remarks be brief -- something along the lines of a Twitter "tweet" or an elevator pitch. Over 100 attorneys, law professors, online business executives, policy advocates and other cyberlaw experts responded, producing 307 separate assessments, predictions, or just plain complaints about any topic that fell under the general heading of cyberlaw.
Many attorneys offered an opinion on the outlook for privacy-related litigation in general and privacy class actions in particular. No surprise there, given the amounts of money at stake and the fact that so many businesses have exposure to claims arising from mishandling personal information.
Even though privacy plaintiffs have had a difficult time establishing an actionable level of damages in privacy cases (see Rudgayzer v. Yahoo!, Ruiz v. Gap, In re Facebook Privacy Litigation, and Krottner v. Starbucks as examples of courts rejecting what they characterized as conjectural allegations of harm; however, rulings in Resnick v. AvMed, Burrows v. Purchasing Power, and In re Sony Gaming Networks are thought to be promising rulings for plaintiffs), the consensus view among our contributors is that privacy litigation is going to increase during the upcoming year.
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