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Administrative/Regulatory

Dec. 25, 2015

Children's data breach reveals challenges

The recent data breach involving the personal information of millions of children and their parents from VTech Holdings, Inc highlights the data security challenges faced by companies and consumers as previously offline products join the Internet of Things.

Tyler G. Newby

Partner
Fenwick & West LLP

555 California St
San Francisco , CA 94104

Phone: (415) 875-2300

Fax: (415) 281-1350

Email: tnewby@fenwick.com

Stanford University Law School; Stanford CA

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The recent data breach involving the personal information of millions of children and their parents from VTech Holdings Ltd., a maker of Internet-connected educational toys and apps, highlights the data security challenges faced by companies and consumers as previously offline products join the Internet of Things. Many software companies that grew out of the Internet - like social networks, Internet advertisers, and online educational platforms - have been learning the data security and ch...

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