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Jun. 18, 2014

State laws fail to keep up with the billowing cloud

California's consumer protection laws are failing to keep up with the inevitable advances in data management and storage.

Brian S. Kabateck

Founding and Managing Partner
Kabateck LLP

Consumer rights

633 W. Fifth Street Suite 3200
Los Angeles , CA 90071

Phone: 213-217-5000

Email: bsk@kbklawyers.com

Brian represents plaintiffs in personal injury, mass torts litigation, class actions, insurance bad faith, insurance litigation and commercial contingency litigation. He is a former president of Consumer Attorneys of California.

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Shant A. Karnikian

Managing Partner and Trial Attorney
Kabateck LLP

Phone: (213) 217-5000

Email: sk@kbklawyers.com

Loyola Law School

Shant A. Karnikian is a Managing Partner and trial attorney with Kabateck LLP. His practice focuses on insurance bad faith, catastrophic personal injury, and consumer class actions.

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More and more institutions of all types and sizes are entrusting third parties to store their consumer information offsite and online. As the cloud billows, so does the risk of identity theft, data breaches or other forms of unwanted disclosure. However, consumer protection laws are failing to keep up with the inevitable advances in data management and storage. Perhaps the state Legislature would better adapt to these changes if it revisited the statutory scheme for holding corporations ...

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