Data Breach & Privacy

SGT litigates across the full range of data and privacy harms. The firm's cases include data breaches that expose sensitive personal information, the tracking of children through mobile apps and online video, and biometric voiceprint privacy litigation involving a major technology company's voice assistant.

These cases turn on complex questions of technology and fast-evolving privacy law. SGT investigates how a company collected, stored, or exposed personal data, works with technical and forensic experts, and litigates in state and federal courts nationwide, including winning appellate rulings that have shaped the law.

Depending on the claim, a successful case can recover money for people whose data was exposed or misused, provide compensation under privacy laws that set damages for each violation, and require a company to change how it collects and safeguards personal information going forward.

These cases are brought on behalf of people who have suffered the same harm: customers or patients whose information was exposed in a breach, users whose data was collected without consent, and children who were tracked online, for example. SGT represents individuals nationwide whose personal information has been stolen, exposed, or exploited.

SGT has achieved precedent-setting privacy results in cases across the country. Its litigation against Google over the tracking of children online produced a landmark federal appeals court ruling on children's privacy and multiple settlements, including a $30 million settlement on behalf of a class estimated at tens of millions of children. As court-appointed co-lead counsel in litigation over a data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of 2.5 million student loan borrowers, SGT secured a court-approved $10 million settlement.