Technology, Media & Privacy


Atheria’s Technology, Media & Privacy team includes more than thirty lawyers and legal professionals.  

Ours is a fast-moving practice, focused on first- and third-party losses and claims arising from data breaches, including ransomware and privacy incidents, and technology products and services, including breach of contract, intellectual property claims, and website defamation. 

Our cyber expertise dates back to the first cyber policies ever created. Since then, we have worked on thousands of high-profile and complex data privacy and cyber security incidents involving a range of subject matter experts and global corporations, technology, media, retail and healthcare companies, and educational institutions. 

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Our clients look to us for the depth of experience our lawyers have from acting as coverage and monitoring counsel for London and U.S. domestic insurers involving policyholders around the world, including: 

Data breaches impacting financial, education, hospitality, and retail sectors, from individual events to some of the largest and most complex data breach incidents ever reported.
Class action lawsuits and regulatory proceedings flowing from data breaches and privacy violations, including the alleged unlawful collection and use of data.
Claims involving phishing attacks, D-DOS attacks, ransomware / cyber extortion, and business interruption resulting from cyber incidents.
Social engineering schemes resulting in fraudulent wire transfers.
Technology errors and omissions claims, including software implementation disputes involving large projects and failures of technology hardware functionality.
Class actions alleging violations of privacy statutes including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), and the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
Intellectual property claims, including patent infringement, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and trade secret misappropriation, brought against policyholders ranging from the smallest startups to Silicon Valley’s powerhouses.
Matters alleging disparaging website content and online defamation.

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Bipartisan American Privacy Right Act Legislation Represents Another Attempt to Streamline Privacy Rights and Control of Personal Data

On Sunday, April 7, 2024, a bipartisan discussion draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (“the APRA”) was presented by House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., in suppor

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Oregon Supreme Court Confirms Outside Deadline for Legal Malpractice Claims

On November 28, 2023, the Oregon Supreme Court confirmed the existence of an outside deadline for pursuing legal malpractice claims apart from the statute of limitations. At issue in Marshall v. PricewaterhouseCoopers, 371 Or. 536 (2023) was the applicability of a statute of repose to actions

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Fourth Circuit Vacates Class Certification In Marriott Data Breach Class Action

We report on a significant recent development in the Marriott data breach putative class action litigation. Following oral argument on May 3, 2023, the Fourth Circuit just issued its decision vacating the district court’s largely unprecedented decision (from May 2022) which certified certain classes

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