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Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • April 11, 2025

    Chancery Tosses Exabeam Stockholder's Appraisal Suit

    A former stockholder of cybersecurity venture Exabeam Inc. saw his suit for Court of Chancery share appraisal shot down on Friday, after a vice chancellor concluded that the suit was launched as an unsupported workaround to secure documents unavailable to him on the company's merger with LogRhythm Inc.

  • April 11, 2025

    Telehealth Co. Sued Over 2024 Data Breach

    A company that helps healthcare providers manage after-hours patient calls was hit with a proposed class action in New York federal court Friday alleging that it failed to secure user data prior to a 2024 breach that exposed the sensitive information of nearly 1 million people.

  • April 11, 2025

    Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Atty Lands 7-Day Suspension Credit

    Alex Jones' former lead Connecticut attorney will be suspended for only one additional week because of a prior sit-out in 2023, a state court judge has clarified, saying she hadn't considered that Norm Pattis was previously benched while he appealed his discipline for his role in transferring Sandy Hook families' confidential records to another Jones attorney.

  • April 10, 2025

    Senate Confirms Meador To Fill 3rd GOP Seat AT FTC

    The U.S. Senate voted along party lines Thursday to confirm Kressin Meador Powers LLC partner Mark Meador to the Federal Trade Commission, filling the agency's third Republican seat as the spots left by the recent firing of the commission's two Democrats remain vacant. 

  • April 10, 2025

    Immigration Groups Seek Unredacted Tax Data-Sharing Pact

    Immigration advocates trying to block the Internal Revenue Service from disclosing taxpayers' information to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies urged a D.C. federal court on Thursday to require the Justice Department to hand over an unredacted version of a government agreement to share the confidential data.

  • April 10, 2025

    Netchoice Wants New Calif. Online Marketplace Law Blocked

    Big Tech trade group Netchoice LLC has asked a California federal court to block a new Golden State law requiring online marketplaces to collect information from third-party sellers and report those selling stolen goods, claiming the "onerous" measure will "impose unprecedented and unconstitutional burdens on widely used online services."

  • April 10, 2025

    Online Advertising Co. Is Sued Over Use Of Tracking Cookies

    Digital advertising firm PubMatic Inc. engaged in vast and unauthorized tracking of the online lives of "hundreds of millions of Americans," which it later shared and sold to third parties, violating state and federal privacy laws, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court.

  • April 10, 2025

    Bipartisan AI Deepfakes Bill Reintroduced In Congress

    A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress will again try to address the proliferation of so-called deepfakes created with artificial intelligence with a bill that would give individuals the right to authorize or oppose the use of their voice or visual likeness.

  • April 10, 2025

    Debt Collector Can Hang Tight While ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Mulls Probe

    A Georgia federal judge has said that National Credit Systems does not have to turn over documents and other material to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the time being, as the agency decides whether it is proceeding with a pending investigation into the debt collector for alleged credit reporting and debt collection violations.

  • April 10, 2025

    Israel's NSO Faces April Damages Trial For WhatsApp Hacking

    A California federal judge on Thursday nailed down details of an April 28 jury trial to determine the amount of damages Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking into 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, refusing to seal the proceedings and expressing frustration at the amount of discovery withheld by the parties, particularly NSO.

  • April 10, 2025

    GAO Backs 2nd Protest Over $112M FEMA Cybersecurity Deal

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office has sustained a second protest over a $112 million Federal Emergency Management Agency cybersecurity support services deal, saying FEMA mistakenly disqualified a bidder for proposing the use of contractual labor categories the company was allowed to use.

  • April 10, 2025

    Fairplay Urges FTC To Investigate Meta Over Kids' VR Privacy

    A nonprofit organization that works to curb child-targeted marketing asked the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday to look into whether Meta Platforms is violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by allowing kids under the age of 13 to access its "Horizon Worlds" virtual reality platform and collecting their personal information.

  • April 10, 2025

    NSO Hack Needed Apple's Calif. Servers, Foreign Journos Say

    Counsel for a group of El Salvador-based journalists urged the Ninth Circuit on Thursday to revive a lawsuit accusing Israeli spyware maker NSO Group of hacking their iPhones, saying the case belongs in California federal court because the alleged attacks relied on Apple's servers within the Golden State.

  • April 10, 2025

    Mint Mobile Secretly Records Customer Calls, Suit Says

    Mint Mobile "routinely and intentionally" records conversations on its customer service line without notifying callers, according to a proposed class action moved to California federal court Wednesday.

  • April 10, 2025

    IRS-ICE Deal Could Cost $25B In Tax Revenue, Report Says

    The Internal Revenue Service's agreement to share the taxpayer records of certain non-U.S. citizens with immigration enforcement authorities could lead to a $25 billion loss in tax revenue in 2026, according to research from Yale University.

  • April 10, 2025

    Ex-EBay Execs Want To Question Key Stalking Case Witness

    Three former eBay executives facing claims they helped direct a campaign to harass bloggers critical of the company have told a Massachusetts federal judge they want to question a key witness about his past role as an undercover government agent.

  • April 10, 2025

    Conn. Firm Fights Atty Fee Award In Client's Suit Over Scam

    Connecticut law firm Mancini Provenzano & Futtner LLC has asked a Constitution State court to reconsider its decision to award attorney fees and prejudgment interest to a former client after a fraudster used the firm's email system to rob the client of $90,586, arguing there was no bad faith to warrant such an award.

  • April 10, 2025

    Judge On Bid To Redo Wawa Breach Atty Fees: 'I Don't Buy It'

    A Third Circuit panel on Thursday considering a class member's request to reconsider a $3.2 million attorney fee award in the Wawa data breach litigation seemed unconvinced of the argument that the number was the result of side-dealing attorneys, with one judge telling counsel, "I don't buy it."

  • April 10, 2025

    Conn. Justices Seem Open To Redo Of Atty's Scam Damages

    Justices of the Connecticut Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Thursday to an attorney's argument that they should boost the damages he won against scammers in an identity theft case, and asked probing questions about how the $450,000 award was calculated, then recalculated, in two lower courts.

  • April 10, 2025

    Microsoft Pushes Back On UK's Cloud Software Findings

    Microsoft has responded to the concerns raised by Britain's competition enforcer over the cloud services market, saying that artificial intelligence is radically reshaping the space, and that any regulatory intervention could make the industry less dynamic.

  • April 10, 2025

    NY Fines Block $40M For Cash App Compliance Failures

    Jack Dorsey's financial technology firm Block Inc. said Thursday that it will pay a $40 million penalty to New York regulators over allegedly lax anti-money laundering procedures on its payments platform Cash App following a multistate settlement in January over similar alleged violations.

  • April 10, 2025

    Yahoo Privacy Feature Actually Invades Privacy, User Says

    Yahoo secretly collects users' data for targeted advertising purposes, according to a proposed class action that alleges the company has been tracking user activity across websites and apps without their consent.

  • April 10, 2025

    NC Bill Would Let Judges, DAs Shield Personal Info Online

    A bipartisan bill introduced Thursday in the North Carolina House of Representatives would allow judges, prosecutors and public defenders to request the removal of their personal information from public websites, including their addresses and phone numbers.

  • April 10, 2025

    Conn. Man Who Threatened Judges Avoids More Prison Time

    A Connecticut resident who admitted to sending over 100 threatening letters to various government officials, journalists and judges, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was sentenced to time served and three years of supervised release in a downward departure from federal sentencing guidelines.

  • April 10, 2025

    Meta Trial Rooted In Decade-Old WhatsApp, Instagram Buys

    Federal Trade Commission lawyers are set for a trial Monday that will assess the exact scope of competition that Meta Platform's offerings face providing personal social media services and the reach of monopolization allegations targeting its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

Expert Analysis

  • Top 10 Legal Issues This Year For Transportation Industry GCs

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    General counsel must carefully consider numerous legal and policy challenges facing the automotive and transportation industry in the year to come, especially while navigating new technologies, regulations and global markets, says Francesco Liberatore at Squire Patton.

  • Exploring Venue Strategy For Trump-Era Regulatory Litigation

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    Litigation will likely play a prominent role in shaping policy outcomes during the second Trump administration, and stakeholders have several tools at their disposal to steer regulatory litigation toward more favorable venues, say attorneys at Covington.

  • New Year, New Risks: 8 Top Cyber Issues For Finance In 2025

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    As financial institutions forge ahead in 2025, they must strike a delicate balance between embracing technological innovation and guarding against its darker threats, which this year could include everything from supply chain vulnerabilities to deepfakes, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.

  • A Guide To Significant 2024 Data Broker Legal Developments

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    2024 saw notable developments in U.S. data broker regulation and enforcement, and this momentum will likely carry into 2025, despite hypothetical efforts to the contrary under the new administration, say attorneys at Frankfurt Kurnit.

  • Series

    Playing Esports Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Competing in a global esports tournament at Wimbledon last year not only fulfilled my childhood dream, but also sharpened skills that are essential to my day job, including strategic thinking, confidence and networking, says AJ Schuyler at Jackson Lewis.

  • The 6 Most Significant FCRA Litigation Developments Of 2024

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    From a key sovereign immunity decision at the U.S. Supreme Court to a ruling on creditworthiness out of the Seventh Circuit, several important Fair Credit Reporting Act cases wound their way through the courts in 2024, each offering takeaways for both plaintiffs and defendants, say attorneys at Shipkevich.

  • Identifying Deepfakes During Evidence Collection, Discovery

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    Attorneys must familiarize themselves with the tools used to create and detect deepfakes — media manipulated by artificial intelligence to convincingly mimic real people and events — as well as best practices for keeping this fabricated evidence out of court, says Bijan Ghom at Saxton & Stump.

  • Health Tech Regulatory Trends To Watch In 2025

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    With an upcoming change in administration and the release of some long-awaited rules, the healthcare industry should prepare for shifting trends, including a growing focus on health data and interest in technology-enabled delivery of healthcare, say attorneys at Orrick.

  • An Associate's Guide To Career Development In 2025

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    As the new year begins, associates at all levels should consider establishing career metrics, fostering key relationships and employing other specific strategies to help move through the complexities of the legal profession with confidence and emerge as trailblazers, say EJ Stern and Amanda George at Fractional Law Firm.

  • The Securities Litigation Trends That Will Matter Most In 2025

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    2025 is shaping up to be a significant year for securities litigation, as plaintiffs and defendants alike navigate shifting standards for omission theories of liability, class certification, risk disclosure claims and more, say attorneys at Willkie.

  • How White Collar Enforcement May Shift In Trump's 2nd Term

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    After President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House next month, the administration’s emphasis on immigration laws, drug offenses and violent crime will likely reduce the focus on white collar crime overall, but certain areas within the white collar world may see increased activity, say attorneys at Keker Van Nest.

  • Risk Management Takeaways From NIST's AI Symposium

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    Based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology's September artificial intelligence innovation symposium, companies should anticipate that laws and regulations safeguarding AI could take new forms and approaches that break the current mold, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.

  • New Trump Admin May Bring Financial Oversight Turbulence

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    As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to begin his second term, his top financial market regulatory and securities law enforcement appointees, campaign promises, and regulatory preferences foretell a period of muddy regulatory waters, say attorneys at Kroll.

  • The Justices' Securities Rulings, Dismissals That Defined '24

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 securities rulings led to increased success for defendants' price impact arguments, but the justices' decisions not to weigh in on important issues relating to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's pleading requirements may be just as significant, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • 10 Noteworthy ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Developments From 2024

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    In a banner year for consumer finance regulation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made significant strides in its efforts to rein in Big Tech and nonbank financial firms, including via rules regarding open banking, credit card late fees, and buy now, pay later products, say attorneys at Wiley.

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