Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • May 06, 2026

    Amazon Sees What You See On Your Fire TV, Users Claim

    Amazon customers claimed in a proposed nationwide class action Wednesday that the e-commerce giant's Fire TV products illegally capture and analyze everything that users see and hear through their devices, including streamed content, personal photos and security camera streams.

  • May 06, 2026

    Mobile Industry's Pai Calls For More Exclusive Airwaves For AI

    Major wireless carriers are looking toward a future driven by artificial intelligence, but say its full potential can only be reached if policymakers give them more access to exclusive airwaves in the prime midband range.

  • May 06, 2026

    TikTok Not Shielded From Mass. AG Case, Judge Says

    A Massachusetts judge will allow a social media addiction suit brought by the state attorney general against TikTok to proceed, rejecting claims that the company is shielded by the Communications Decency Act and the First Amendment.

  • May 06, 2026

    Booz Allen Says Fla. Senator's Tax Leak Suit Is Too Late

    U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, waited too long to file a lawsuit over the leak of his personal tax returns, according to federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, which moved to dismiss the suit Tuesday.

  • May 06, 2026

    Conn. Credit Union Says Data Breach Anxiety Can't Spur Suit

    Threats of future harm and "generalized anxiety" about possible identity theft are not enough to support a proposed class action against a Connecticut credit union hit with a data breach, and there's no reason to believe cybercriminals accessed member accounts, the defense has told a federal court in seeking dismissal.

  • May 06, 2026

    Home Security Firms Hit With TCPA Suit Over Sales Calls

    A pair of home security companies violated the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making unsolicited robocalls to try and sell security systems, according to a proposed class action filed in a Pennsylvania federal court.

  • May 06, 2026

    High Court Rejects Apple's Bid To Pause App Store Ruling

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected Apple's request to pause a mandate in the case from Epic Games that directs a lower court to determine what commission Apple can charge developers for purchases made outside of its app store through links.

  • May 06, 2026

    DHS Can Withhold Some Border Search Records, Judge Says

    A federal judge in Washington has partially sided with immigration officials' decision not to provide some information about border searches of electronic devices that a First Amendment group at Columbia University requested, finding the documents contained privileged, decision-making details.

  • May 06, 2026

    Feds Say Stolen BigLaw Deal Info Aided Huge Trading Scheme

    Federal prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled indictments outlining a massive insider trading scheme that allegedly netted tens of millions of dollars using nonpublic information about mergers and acquisitions worked on by some of the nation's biggest law firms.

  • May 06, 2026

    Citizens Bank Customer Says Software Vendor Leaked Info

    Communications software company Sefas Innovation Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court accusing it of failing to safeguard the data of its clients' customers from cybercriminals, resulting in a breach of its records in April.

  • May 06, 2026

    Pot Patients Defend Claims In Dispensary Data Privacy Suit

    A group of medical cannabis patients are pushing back on a bid from a technology company to dismiss their claims that it shares their medical information with outside vendors, saying they have sufficiently pled their allegations that they did not consent to such sharing and they were injured by the disclosure.

  • May 05, 2026

    Sanofi Unit Gets Backup In Fed. Circ. Double Patenting Appeal

    Canon, Sonos and several other tech and biopharma companies have thrown their weight behind a Sanofi subsidiary's appeal challenging how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board handles obviousness-type double patenting.

  • May 05, 2026

    Patient Data Tracking Suit Sent Back To Wis. State Court

    A Wisconsin federal judge has thrown back to state court a putative class action accusing healthcare providers Hospital Sisters Health Systems and Prevea Health Services of deploying tracking tools that illegally transmitted patients' private information to Google and Facebook, finding that the plaintiffs hadn't alleged a sufficiently concrete injury to remain in federal court.  

  • May 05, 2026

    Meta Should Have Warning Label, NM Witness Says

    New Mexico unveiled further details of safeguards it says a court should impose on Meta in a $3.7 billion bench trial, calling an expert witness Tuesday who said displaying a warning pop-up to minors is an idea that's backed by the former surgeon general and desperately needed.

  • May 05, 2026

    Software Co. Doxim Inks $5.5M Deal To End Data Breach Suit

    Credit union customers asked a Michigan federal judge Tuesday to preliminarily approve an amended $5.5 million class settlement resolving claims that software-as-a-service company Doxim Inc. failed to protect sensitive personal information that ended up exposed in a 2023 data breach.

  • May 05, 2026

    Pa. Sues Character.ai For Bot Acting Like A Doctor

    The state of Pennsylvania and its medical licensing board have sued Character Technologies Inc. for allegedly allowing an AI chatbot generated on its platform to engage in the unlicensed practice of medicine with members of the public.

  • May 05, 2026

    7th Circ. Backs Dropbox's Warrantless Search For Child Porn

    The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday ruled a Dropbox user's constitutional rights weren't violated when the company inspected and shared his files containing child sex abuse material to law enforcement without a warrant, noting he gave consent to Dropbox's terms allowing inspection of data to ensure it wasn't being used illegally.

  • May 05, 2026

    Home Depot Accused Of Helping Police Spy On Customers

    Home Depot is running a covert surveillance system using automated license plate recognition technology and feeding that information to a database accessed by law enforcement, a proposed class action filed in California federal court has alleged.

  • May 05, 2026

    OpenAI Accused Of Giving ChatGPT User Info To Meta, Google

    A ChatGPT user Tuesday filed a proposed class action against OpenAI in California federal court, claiming the artificial intelligence company disclosed private user information to Meta Platforms and Google without users' consent.

  • May 05, 2026

    4th Circ. Says USPTO Doesn't Have To Cough Up PTAB Docs

    The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday said it won't force the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to hand over certain information requested by a nonprofit volunteer about drafts of a decision in a Patent Trial and Appeal Board hearing involving a cybersecurity patent.

  • May 05, 2026

    High Court Clarity On Subpoenas Creates Murky Path For AGs

    The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the New Jersey Attorney General's Office infringed free speech by asking an anti-abortion nonprofit to release donor names gives nonprofits and companies more leverage for challenging subpoenas at the outset, although the question remains if and how attorneys general and other enforcers can ultimately obtain sought-after information following a constitutional affront.

  • May 04, 2026

    Apple Asks High Court To Pause Epic Games App Store Order

    Apple on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a mandate directing a lower court to move forward with determining exactly what Apple can charge developers on in-app purchases, arguing there are important questions that need to be resolved by the justices first.

  • May 04, 2026

    OkCaller Tells 11th Circ. Its Google Suit Wasn't 'Incoherent'

    OkCaller.com is asking the Eleventh Circuit to revive its lawsuit accusing Google of monopolizing the market for search engine services, arguing that the lower court was wrong to adopt Google's "straw man" and treat the reverse phone number lookup website's argument as "incoherent."

  • May 04, 2026

    FTC Deal Bars Kochava From Selling Sensitive Location Data

    Mobile app analytics provider Kochava Inc. has agreed to halt the disclosure of sensitive location data without consumers' affirmative express consent to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's longstanding claims that the data broker sold geolocation data from mobile devices that could be used to track people to reproductive health clinics, places of worship and other sensitive places.

  • May 04, 2026

    AI Chipmaker Cerebras Launches Plans For $3.4B IPO

    Artificial intelligence computing company Cerebras Systems Inc. on Monday filed plans to raise around $3.4 billion in its blockbuster initial public offering, a long-awaited move that comes after the company withdrew previous plans for a public debut in October.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practical Problem Solving

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    Issue-spotting skills are well honed in law school, but practicing attorneys must also identify clients’ problems and true goals, and then be able to provide solutions, says Mary Kate Hogan at Quarles & Brady.

  • Reviewing 2025's State And Federal AI Regulations

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    In light of increasing state and federal action to oversee the use of artificial intelligence, companies that develop or deploy the technology should keep abreast of current and forthcoming AI laws and consider their applicability to their business activities, says Jessica Brigman at Spencer Fane.

  • What Trump Order Limiting State AI Regs Means For Insurers

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    Last week's executive order seeking to preclude states from regulating artificial intelligence will likely have minimal impact on insurers, but the order and related congressional activities may portend a federal expectation of consistent state oversight of insurers' AI use, says Kathleen Birrane at DLA Piper.

  • How Workforce, Tech Will Affect 2026 Construction Landscape

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    As the construction industry's center of gravity shifts from traditional commercial work to infrastructure, energy, industrial and data-hosting facilities, the effects of evolving technology and persistent labor shortages are reshaping real estate dealmaking, immigration policy debates and government contracting risk, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

  • 4 Privacy Trends This Year With Lessons For Companies

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    As organizations plan for ongoing privacy law changes, 2025 trends that include a shift of activity from the federal to the state level mean companies should take an adaptive and principle-based approach to privacy programs rather than trying to memorize constantly changing laws, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Opinion

    A Uniform Federal Rule Would Curb Gen AI Missteps In Court

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    To address the patchwork of courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence, curbing abuses and relieving the burden on judges, the federal judiciary should consider amending its civil procedure rules to require litigants to certify they’ve reviewed legal filings for accuracy, say attorneys at Shook Hardy.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Integrating Practice Groups

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    Enacting unified leadership and consistent client service standards ensures law firm practice groups connect and collaborate around shared goals, turning a law firm merger into a platform for growth rather than a period of disruption, says Brian Catlett at Fennemore Craig.

  • Nonprofits Face Uncertainty Over Political Activity Rules

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    Two federal court decisions suggesting that the Internal Revenue Service's rules for 501(c)(4) organizations' political activity may be too vague to survive constitutional scrutiny leave nonprofit organizations caught between constitutional limits on government regulation of speech and tax limits on their exempt status, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • Opinion

    Supreme Court Term Limits Would Carry Hidden Risk

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    While proposals for limiting the terms of U.S. Supreme Court justices are popular, a steady stream of relatively young, highly marketable ex-justices with unique knowledge and influence entering the marketplace of law and politics could create new problems, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

  • Autonomous Vehicle Liability Trends To Watch In 2026

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    With autonomous vehicles increasingly making their own decisions, the liability landscape for AVs has changed over the past year — highlighting a number of important issues that companies and practitioners should keep a close eye on in 2026, says Farid Yaghoubtil at Downtown LA Law Group.

  • Key Crypto Class Action Trends And Rulings In 2025

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    As the law continued to take shape in the growing area of crypto-assets, this year saw a jump in crypto class action litigation, including noteworthy decisions on motions to compel arbitration and class certification, according to Justin Donoho at Duane Morris.

  • Tips For Drafting, Negotiating Quantum Service Agreements

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    Due to the experimental and volatile nature of quantum computing technology — at least initially — lawyers and legal practitioners should consider a few risks when drafting or negotiating a quantum-as-a-service agreement, including if the underlying hardware design is faulty or not appropriate for maintenance, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Series

    Knitting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Stretching my skills as a knitter makes me a better antitrust attorney by challenging me to recalibrate after wrong turns, not rush outcomes, and trust that I can teach myself the skills to tackle new and difficult projects — even when I don’t have a pattern to work from, says Kara Kuritz at V&E.

  • Series

    The Biz Court Digest: Welcome To Miami

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    After nearly 20 years in operation, the Miami Complex Business Litigation Division is a pioneer upon which other jurisdictions in the state have been modeled, adopting many innovations to keep its cases running more efficiently and staffing experienced judges who are accustomed to hearing business disputes, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • Recent Proposals May Spell Supervision Overhaul For Banks

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    A slew of rules recently proposed by the federal banking agencies with approaching comment deadlines would rewrite supervision standards to be further tailored to banks' size and activities, while prioritizing financial risks over process, documentation and other nonfinancial risks, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

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