Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • December 09, 2024

    Apple Faces Another Suit Over Child Porn Detection Failures

    Apple has been hit with another proposed class action by child abuse victims in California federal court alleging that the tech giant misled users about its efforts to combat the dissemination of child pornography and defectively designed its products, thereby allowing explicit imagery to run rampant on its iCloud and Apple devices.

  • December 09, 2024

    Facebook Execs Deny Email Breach Harm In Del. Hearing

    Two former Facebook directors turned to "chutzpah" in answering a stockholder class call for sanctions against them for deleting uncounted emails regarding privacy violations and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a stockholder attorney told a Delaware vice chancellor on Monday.

  • December 09, 2024

    LendingTree Pushes FCC Again To Rework Lead Consent Rule

    Loan marketer LendingTree is making one more effort to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to trim the scope of its lead generation consent rule in hopes of seeing changes before the regulations take effect in January.

  • December 09, 2024

    Ga. Attys Urge Companies To Develop Generative AI Policies

    Companies need to develop policies mitigating the effects of generative artificial intelligence as the tool is already impacting contracts and other aspects of business across nearly every industry, attorneys said Monday at a State Bar of Georgia panel.

  • December 09, 2024

    TikTok Seeks Halt On Sale-Or-Ban Law For High Court Appeal

    TikTok Inc. and its users are pressing the D.C. Circuit to put on hold the implementation of a law that is set to bar the platform from the U.S. market next month while they appeal a ruling backing the measure to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

  • December 06, 2024

    DC Circ. Ruling Far From Last Word On Looming TikTok Ban

    The D.C. Circuit's decision Friday paving the way for a U.S. ban on TikTok to take effect next month sparked immediate concerns about the loss of a social platform that millions rely on to freely express themselves, but a likely appeal and upcoming administration change could end up flipping the script.

  • December 06, 2024

    Ill. Judge Sends Hair Restoration Text Suit To Arbitration

    An Illinois federal judge paused litigation against a hair restoration company accused of sending a website user unwanted text promotions and ordered the parties Friday to arbitrate their dispute, following a Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld an arbitration agreement with less to go off of.

  • December 06, 2024

    Netflix's 'Our Father' Trial Ends With Modest Award

    Facing millions of dollars in punitive damage liabilities, Netflix and its army of lawyers were able to keep an Indiana federal jury's verdict at $385,000 in a privacy lawsuit over the names of the biological children of a rogue fertility doctor that appeared in the "Our Father" documentary.

  • December 06, 2024

    Google Must Face Trimmed BIPA Suit Over IBM Dataset

    A California federal judge on Thursday permitted Illinois residents to proceed with a pared-down version of their proposed class action accusing Google of violating biometric privacy laws with facial data collected by IBM, ruling they've adequately alleged a violation of the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act.

  • December 06, 2024

    Rugby League, Fox Sports Move To End Meta Tracking Row

    Fox Sports Australia and the National Rugby League are urging a California federal court to nix a proposed class action accusing them of disclosing viewers' personal data to Meta and other third parties without their knowledge or consent, saying the dispute belongs in Australia.

  • December 06, 2024

    Google's Payments Unit Sues Over CFPB Supervision Order

    Google on Friday sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in D.C. federal court almost immediately after the regulator said it ordered formal supervision for the tech giant's payments arm based on potential risks to consumers, a designation to which Google previously objected.

  • December 06, 2024

    SAG-AFTRA Plan Left Data Exposed To Breach, Members Say

    The SAG-AFTRA Health Plan lacked adequate security to keep personal information safe from a September data breach, two members alleged in California federal court, saying a proposed class is at risk for a "full gamut of cyber-crimes," including identity theft and phishing scams.

  • December 06, 2024

    2 Accused Of Using Paper As Crime Front Get 2025 Trial Date

    A Manhattan federal judge set a 2025 date Friday for former Epoch Times executive Weidong Guan to stand trial for allegedly using the newspaper as a front to launder $67 million of crime proceeds, following the extradition of a second defendant.

  • December 06, 2024

    NC Hospital Gets Initial OK For $1.1M Data Breach Deal

    A North Carolina Business Court judge has given his initial seal of approval to a $1.1 million settlement agreement in a data breach class action against Columbus Regional Healthcare System.

  • December 06, 2024

    Colo. Children's Hospital Fined $548K For Phishing Attacks

    Children's Hospital Colorado was hit with a more than $548,000 fine over phishing and cyberattacks that violated patient privacy rules, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  • December 06, 2024

    NC Lt. Gov. Fights Porn Store Clerk's Exit From Defamation Suit

    North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has hit back at a former porn store clerk's dismissal bid in his defamation suit that includes CNN, saying the motion is based on a bogus pleading violation under state court procedures even though the suit is now before a federal judge.

  • December 06, 2024

    AI Hype Won't Wash With Canadian Securities Regulators

    The Canadian Securities Administration is warning market participants against hyping ties to artificial intelligence in order to drum up interest for investments — a practice called "AI washing" — as the agency invites public comment before crafting AI-focused regulations.

  • December 06, 2024

    Gov't Appeals Texas Judge's Block On Anti-Laundering Law

    The U.S. government has appealed a Texas federal judge's order that halted the rollout of new reporting requirements aimed at unmasking anonymous shell companies, setting the stage for the Fifth Circuit to weigh in on the nationwide preliminary injunction.

  • December 06, 2024

    Conn. Panel Pares $150M From $1.44B Alex Jones Verdict

    The Connecticut Appellate Court on Friday sliced $150 million from a $1.44 billion trial court judgment against Infowars host Alex Jones over his claims that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, holding the state's consumer protection laws did not allow the massacre's survivors to recover for alleged harms connected to Jones' ancillary product sales.

  • December 06, 2024

    DC Circ. Upholds TikTok Sale-Or-Ban Law

    A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday upheld a federal law giving TikTok until January to cut ties with its Chinese parent company or face a ban in the U.S., ruling that the statute survives constitutional scrutiny.

  • December 05, 2024

    9th Circ. Open To Reviving Snap Stock Suit Over Privacy Tools

    A Ninth Circuit panel appeared open Thursday to reviving a proposed securities class action alleging Snap downplayed the impact Apple's privacy changes would have on ad revenues, causing the stock to eventually plunge, with two judges noting they must infer the allegations in the investors' favor at the pleading stage.

  • December 05, 2024

    Trump Taps Musk Ally David Sacks As 'AI & Crypto Czar'

    President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has selected David O. Sacks, a tech investor who worked alongside Elon Musk and entrepreneur Peter Thiel in the early days of PayPal, to be the newly created "White House AI & Crypto Czar."

  • December 05, 2024

    Netflix Can't Get Midtrial Win In 'Our Father' Case

    An Indiana federal judge on Thursday rejected Netflix's midtrial bid to escape a suit accusing it of negligently revealing the identities of the biological children of a rogue fertility doctor in the "Our Father" documentary, saying there was sufficient evidence for the jury to consider.

  • December 05, 2024

    Man Cops To $3.5M 'Cryptojacking' Scam Against Cloud Cos.

    A Nebraska man admitted on Thursday to running a so-called "cryptojacking" scheme to defraud two cloud computing services out of $3.5 million of resources that were used to mine $1 million in cryptocurrency, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

  • December 05, 2024

    Investors Sue Pegasystems In Corporate Espionage Case

    Business software developer Pegasystems Inc. has been hit with allegations that it misled an asset management firm by concealing its use of illegal and unethical tactics to misappropriate competitor Appian Corp.'s trade secrets, which led to a since-overturned $2 billion Virginia state court judgment for unjust enrichment. 

Expert Analysis

  • Navigating A Potpourri Of Possible Transparency Act Pitfalls

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    Despite the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's continued release of guidance for complying with the Corporate Transparency Act, its interpretation remains in flux, making it important for companies to understand potentially problematic areas of ambiguity in the practical application of the law, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • The Risks Of Employee Political Discourse On Social Media

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    As election season enters its final stretch and employees increasingly engage in political speech on social media, employers should beware the liability risks and consider policies that negotiate the line between employees' rights and the limits on those rights, say Bradford Kelley and James McGehee at Littler.

  • A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President

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    For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Finding Coverage For Online Retail Privacy Class Actions

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    Following recent court rulings interpreting state invasion of privacy and electronic surveillance statutes triggering a surge in the filing of privacy class actions against online retailers, companies should examine their various insurance policies, including E&O and D&O, for defense coverage of these claims, says Alison Gaske at Gilbert LLP.

  • The State Law Landscape After Justices' Social Media Ruling

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    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.

  • Old Employment Law Principles Can Answer New AI Concerns

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    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.

  • Navigating Cybersecurity Rule Changes For Gov't Contractors

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    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.

  • AI Art Ruling Shows Courts' Training Data Cases Approach

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    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.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    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.

  • 'Pig Butchering': The Scam That Exploits Crypto Confusion

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    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.

  • Opinion

    Agencies Should Reward Corporate Cyber Victim Cooperation

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    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.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    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.

  • What We Know From Early Cyberinsurance Rulings

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    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.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    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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