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January 13, 2025
Texas AG Sues Allstate In Latest Location Data Privacy Strike
Texas' attorney general is accusing Allstate and a subsidiary of violating the state's new comprehensive data privacy law by unlawfully collecting drivers' location data through tracking software embedded in their mobile apps and then using that information to set car insurance rates.
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January 13, 2025
6th Circ. OKs Home Depot's $50M Data Breach Coverage Loss
The Sixth Circuit affirmed Monday a finding that an electronic-data exclusion provision in Home Depot Inc.'s commercial general liability excess policies with Steadfast Insurance Co. and Great American Assurance Co. unambiguously barred coverage for the retail giant's $50 million claim for defense and settlement costs over a 2014 data breach.
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January 13, 2025
SEC Fines Robinhood $45M For Recordkeeping, Cyber Woes
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that Robinhood's broker-dealer units will pay a combined $45 million to settle a host of claims ranging from an alleged failure to file timely suspicious activity reports and address cybersecurity risks to alleged failures concerning data retention and recordkeeping.
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January 13, 2025
Texas Judge Urged To Halt CFPB Medical Debt Reporting Rule
Trade groups suing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over its new rule banning medical debt from credit reports have asked a Texas federal judge to put a court-ordered hold on the measure while they proceed with their challenge to its legality.
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January 13, 2025
California's AG Warns Businesses State Is Not AI 'Wild West'
California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned businesses on Monday that the state is not the "wild west" of artificial intelligence and has various laws on the books preventing the technology from being used to discriminate or violate people's rights.
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January 13, 2025
Google Says Sanctions Bid In Texas Ad Tech Case Too Late
Google has urged a Texas federal court to reject a bid for sanctions in the ad tech monopolization case being brought by state enforcers over the company's prior policy for retaining internal chats, arguing that the bid comes too late.
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January 13, 2025
State Farm, Insurance Association Escape Data-Sharing Suit
An Illinois federal judge dismissed a proposed class action complaint Monday accusing State Farm of improperly sharing personal health information with a consortium of other insurers that allowed them to raise premiums and deny coverage industrywide, finding the conduct wasn't prohibited under the Illinois Insurance Code.
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January 13, 2025
White House Sets Framework For AI Technology Exports
The Biden administration on Monday took its latest step toward securing artificial intelligence technology, issuing a rule aimed at easing the sale of U.S.-made chips and models to allied countries while restricting access to foreign adversaries that it said could use the systems to threaten national security.
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January 13, 2025
AGs, Lobbyists Ask Justices To Keep Shell Co. Law Blocked
The U.S. Supreme Court should deny the federal government's emergency application to stay a Texas district court's injunction on a law aimed at cracking down on crimes committed with shell companies, according to numerous state attorneys general and interest groups and a handful of small businesses.
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January 13, 2025
CFPB Can't Get $43M Fine From Telemarketing Debt Co. Yet
An Illinois federal judge Friday waited to order the owner of a defunct debt company to pay $43 million for misrepresenting to customers they could eliminate their student loans, pointing to a U.S. Supreme Court decision holding the accused has a right to a jury trial when financial penalties are on the line.
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January 13, 2025
Hotel Asset Manager Ashford Settles SEC Cyber Report Suit
Ashford Inc. has agreed to pay more than $115,000 to settle the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's charges that the asset manager failed to properly disclose a cyberattack that led to the leak of hotel customers' personal information.
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January 13, 2025
FTC Says It Has Power To Modify Meta Privacy Order
The Federal Trade Commission has rejected Meta's argument that the agency lacks authority to modify a $5 billion data privacy settlement as the social media giant continues fighting an order barring it from monetizing children's data.
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January 13, 2025
Ex-State Department, Google Atty Joins King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP has hired a former Biden administration official with expertise in artificial intelligence policy and content moderation who previously worked in an international criminal tribunal and for the parent company of Google.
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January 13, 2025
FCC Defends T-Mobile, Sprint Privacy Fine In DC Circ.
The Federal Communications Commission is defending its decision to hit T-Mobile and Sprint with a combined $92 million in fines for selling users' sensitive location data, telling the D.C. Circuit that the wireless carriers could have received a jury trial but were not owed one.
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January 13, 2025
Alex Jones Switches Conn. Attys In $1B Sandy Hook Appeal
A Randazza Legal Group attorney will represent Alex Jones in a Connecticut Supreme Court bid to erase the remainder of a $1.44 billion defamation judgment for Sandy Hook shooting victims after the Infowars host's now-former lawyer raised unspecified conflict concerns about a third attorney representing Jones in the Connecticut appeal.
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January 13, 2025
NJ Firm Agrees To Settle Client's Suit Over Ransomware Attack
New Jersey law firm The Wacks Law Group LLC has reached a settlement agreement with a former client to end a proposed class action claiming that the firm's negligence in properly securing its data led to the theft of hundreds of clients' personal information in a March cyberattack.
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January 13, 2025
Ex-Benefytt Affiliate Violated Consumer Laws, Suit Says
A telemarketing firm that worked with health insurance broker Benefytt Technologies repeatedly violated Massachusetts consumer protection and do-not-call laws, a consumer has alleged in state court.
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January 10, 2025
Up Next At High Court: Porn ID Check & Retiree Discrimination
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday for a full argument session, in which the justices will debate whether a Texas law requiring pornography websites to verify their visitors aren't minors violates the First Amendment and if retirees have the right to sue former employers for benefits discrimination.
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January 10, 2025
Microsoft Pushes To Thwart 'Scheme' To Bypass AI Security
A Virginia federal judge has authorized Microsoft Corp. to seize a website that the tech giant alleges has been instrumental to a "sophisticated scheme" by foreign-based cybercriminals to circumvent safety guardrails built into artificial intelligence services in order to create offensive and harmful content, according to court filings made public Friday.
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January 10, 2025
Feds Back Musk's Microsoft-OpenAI Board Overlap Concerns
The U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission weighed in Friday on Elon Musk's California federal lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing that the artificial intelligence research organization and its co-defendant Microsoft can't fight claims of improper board overlap just by saying the overlap has ended.
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January 10, 2025
PowerSchool Blamed For Breach of Student, Teacher Data
The personal data of tens of millions of students, parents and teachers was put at risk last month when hackers were able to worm their way into PowerSchool's systems because the educational software company's security safeguards were not up to snuff, two lawsuits filed in California federal court allege.
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January 10, 2025
Plex Says Subscriber's Privacy Lawsuit Must Be Arbitrated
Streaming platform Plex is urging a California federal court to nix a proposed data privacy class action, accusing the plaintiffs of using the litigation as a tactic to "coerce" it into settling more than 400 pending arbitrations.
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January 10, 2025
CFPB Floats Protections For Crypto, Video Game Payments
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday proposed to make clear that cryptocurrency and video game transactions are covered under existing rules codifying consumers' rights in situations of fraudulent transfers, hacks and stolen funds.
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January 10, 2025
Tech Co., Feds Seek Wins In Commercial Item Preference Row
A tech company is asking a federal judge to block the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from proceeding with solicitations that stand to replace so-called batCAVE and Signal software it developed that is already providing the desired functionality.
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January 10, 2025
Paramount Wants Out Of User's Video Privacy Suit
Paramount Global urged a New York federal court to dismiss a California man's putative class action accusing it of unlawfully sharing streaming platform users' personal information to third parties like Facebook and TikTok, saying the man lodged inadequate theories of disclosure and otherwise consented to the alleged disclosure.
Expert Analysis
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The State Law Landscape After Justices' Social Media Ruling
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent NetChoice ruling on social media platforms’ First Amendment rights, it’s still unclear if state content moderation laws are constitutional, leaving online operators to face a patchwork of regulation, and the potential for the issue to return to the high court, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Old Employment Law Principles Can Answer New AI Concerns
Despite growing legal and regulatory concerns about how artificial intelligence tools may affect employment decisions and worker rights, companies should take comfort in knowing that familiar principles of employment law and established compliance regimes can still largely address these new twists on old questions, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.
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Navigating Cybersecurity Rule Changes For Gov't Contractors
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
As federal contractors evaluate the security of their IT systems, they should keep in mind numerous changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement recently promulgated to meet new cyber threats, says William Stowe at KBR.
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AI Art Ruling Shows Courts' Training Data Cases Approach
A California federal court’s recent ruling in Andersen v. Stability AI, where the judge refused to throw out artists’ copyright infringement claims against four companies that make or distribute software that creates images from text prompts, provides insight into how courts are handling artificial intelligence training data cases, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.
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'Pig Butchering': The Scam That Exploits Crypto Confusion
Certain red flags can tip off banks to possible "pig-butchering," and with the scam's increasing popularity, financial institutions need to take action to monitor entry points into the crypto space, detect suspicious activity and provide a necessary backstop to protect customers, say Brandon Essig and Mary Parrish McCracken at Lightfoot Franklin.
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Opinion
Agencies Should Reward Corporate Cyber Victim Cooperation
The increased regulatory scrutiny on corporate victims of cyberattacks — exemplified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's case against SolarWinds — should be replaced with a new model that provides adequate incentives for companies to come forward proactively and collaborate with law enforcement, say attorneys at McDermott.
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Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.
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What We Know From Early Cyberinsurance Rulings
Recent cyber disruption incidents, like the Crowdstrike outage and the CDK Global cyberattack this summer, highlight the necessity of understanding legal interpretations of cyberinsurance coverage — an area in which there has been little litigation thus far, say Peter Halprin and Rebecca Schwarz at Haynes Boone.
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5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond
As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.
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Series
Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer
My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.
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Until Congress Acts, EDNY 'Insider Betting' Case Is Premature
The Eastern District of New York’s novel wire fraud conspiracy indictment in U.S. v. Pham may have prematurely heralded a new era in federal gambling enforcement, but in the absence of an “insider betting” statute, sportsbooks — not prosecutors — should be responsible for enforcing their terms of use, says attorney Jonathan Savella.
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How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'
Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.
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Election Outlook: A Precedent Primer On Content Moderation
With the 2024 election season now in full swing, online platforms will face difficult and politically sensitive decisions about content moderation, but U.S. Supreme Court decisions from last term offer much-needed certainty about their rights, say Jonathan Blavin and Helen White at Munger Tolles.
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What BIPA Reform Law Means For Biometrics Litigation
A recently signed Illinois law amending the Biometric Information Privacy Act limits defendants' liability exposure on a per-scan basis and clarifies that electronic signatures constitute a valid written release, establishing additional issues that courts will need to address in future BIPA litigation, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.