ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ

Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • May 20, 2025

    FCC Warned To Not Overreach In Undersea Cable Rules

    Network providers cautioned the Federal Communications Commission to stick to its legal authority when crafting new rules to beef up the security of undersea telecom cables, saying the FCC can't regulate beyond cable owners and operators under existing law.

  • May 20, 2025

    Medical Supply Co. Faces Ga. Suit Over Unwanted Texts

    A Florida-based medical supply company has been hit with a proposed Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action in Georgia federal court by a man who says he received several promotional text messages from the company after he added himself to the National Do Not Call Registry.

  • May 20, 2025

    Meta Asks To Toss Claim That Illegal Tool Scraped Tax Info

    Meta's tracking tool did not violate state privacy law, the company argued, urging a California federal court to toss a claim calling the tool an unauthorized recording device that collected sensitive information from tax filing websites H&R Block, TaxAct and Tax Slayer.

  • May 20, 2025

    TikTok's Bid To Get NY Docs From AG Sunk By New State Law

    A New York state judge on Tuesday denied TikTok's bid to force the New York attorney general to turn over agency documents related to claims the app harms children's mental health, relying on an amendment tucked into the state's budget that was signed into law this month.

  • May 20, 2025

    Meta Says Too Late For 'Dramatic Shift' In Antitrust Argument

    Consumers who claim Meta monopolized the social media advertising market are attempting to make a late "dramatic shift" from their years-long argument that all of its users should have been paid a "made-up figure" of $5 a month for their data, the company told a California federal court Monday.

  • May 20, 2025

    State AGs Back NJ Judicial Privacy Law At 3rd Circ.

    Most states' attorneys general, along with law enforcement organizations and a data privacy group, have encouraged the Third Circuit to uphold a New Jersey judicial privacy measure, saying states have sovereignty to enact such laws in a time of increased threats against judges.

  • May 20, 2025

    Attys For Alleged Fox Hacker 'Deeply Regret' Fake AI Citations

    Two attorneys apologized to a Florida federal judge on Monday for filing a motion to dismiss charges against their client — alleged Fox News video hacker Timothy Burke — that contained fake legal citations generated by artificial intelligence.

  • May 20, 2025

    Apple Can't Get Quick Pause Of App Store Order At 9th Circ.

    The Ninth Circuit agreed Monday to expedite briefing in Apple's appeal challenging a lower court's new injunction mandating certain App Store policy changes, but the panel declined to rule on Apple's emergency request to pause the injunction as Apple and Epic Games brief the hotly contested dispute.

  • May 20, 2025

    Legal Ed Platforms Settle Attorney's Data Harvesting Suit

    Two platforms for continuing legal education content have settled a proposed class action from a Seattle attorney which alleged that the companies violated the Video Privacy Protection Act by using Meta's Pixel tracking software on their sites, the parties said Monday.

  • May 20, 2025

    ZoomInfo Accused Of Illegally Selling Cellphone Numbers

    ZoomInfo is facing allegations that it violates Colorado law by selling individuals' cellphone numbers without their consent, in a proposed class action that was moved to Washington federal court last week.

  • May 20, 2025

    National Security Pro Joins Arnold & Porter White Collar Team

    A former deputy assistant attorney general has left the U.S. Department of Justice to become a partner in Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's white collar defense and investigations and national security practices in New York, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • May 19, 2025

    House Urged To Ax Proposed 10-Year Ban On State AI Laws

    More than 140 civil rights and consumer advocacy groups on Monday became the latest to oppose a sweeping provision in the U.S. House of Representatives' budget proposal that would place a 10-year moratorium on states enacting or enforcing laws to regulate emerging artificial intelligence systems, joining a bipartisan coalition of state enforcers that issued a similar call last week.

  • May 19, 2025

    Trump Admin Fights Bid To Block OPM From Helping DOGE

    A trio of unions can't substantiate their claims that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is inappropriately disclosing sensitive data to the Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump administration has told a New York federal judge, asking her to toss the unions' injunction request.

  • May 19, 2025

    Ga. Judge Trims Delta's IT Outage Suit Against CrowdStrike

    A Georgia state court judge has trimmed Delta Air Lines' lawsuit seeking to recover from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike some $500 million in alleged out-of-pocket losses stemming from the July 2024 catastrophic global IT outage.

  • May 19, 2025

    Apple's Refusal To Put Fortnite On App Store Prompts Hearing

    A California federal judge issued an order Monday requiring Apple to show why she should not find that the company has violated her recent injunction requiring changes to its App Store policies, after Epic Games complained that the tech giant is refusing to put Fortnite back on its U.S. online storefront.

  • May 19, 2025

    21 AGs Join Fight To Keep DHS Oversight Offices Open

    A group of 21 attorneys general joined nonprofits Friday in urging a D.C. federal judge to force the Trump administration to reopen offices that oversee various U.S. Department of Homeland Security programs and investigate related civil rights claims, arguing that the DHS' abrupt closure of the offices could have devastating consequences.

  • May 19, 2025

    Taxpayer Data Increasingly At Risk From DOGE, Court Told

    A group of unions and advocacy organizations trying to block the White House's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing confidential taxpayer data told a D.C. federal court they fear the data is already being shared with federal agencies beyond the IRS.

  • May 19, 2025

    Insurer Says Pizza Chain Only Gets $250K For Cyberattack

    A cyber insurer for Cicis Pizza told a Texas federal court that it's already paid the full amount of coverage the restaurant chain is owed for a May 2022 ransomware incident, arguing that only a $250,000 sublimit under a ransomware endorsement applies.

  • May 19, 2025

    Trump Signs Anti-Revenge Porn Bill Into Law

    President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law a bipartisan bill to combat deep fake revenge porn, a major priority for first lady Melania Trump that has been met with criticism from some technology groups over security and constitutional concerns.

  • May 19, 2025

    'Tornado Cash' Founder Says Feds Withheld Key Evidence

    Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm is demanding federal prosecutors conduct a "thorough" review for additional evidence in his case after the government disclosed in a separate crypto mixer prosecution that Treasury employees had a contrary view of the Justice Department's unlicensed money transmission theory.

  • May 19, 2025

    Wachtell-Led Regeneron To Buy 23andMe, Gaining User Data

    Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said Monday it emerged as the winning bidder for 23andMe, agreeing to pay $256 million to scoop the once high-flying consumer genomics firm out of bankruptcy while pledging to uphold strict privacy standards.

  • May 19, 2025

    Voice Provider Must Cut Off Jury Call Spoofs, FCC Says

    The Federal Communications Commission says it's cracking down on a scam call ring that targeted Cook County, Illinois, residents with alerts that they'd missed jury duty and had to pay up to avoid penalty, ordering voice service provider Flowroute to stop carrying the traffic on its network or face a permanent block.

  • May 16, 2025

    Coinbase Users Sue Over Bribery-Linked Data Breach

    Crypto exchange Coinbase faces a wave of lawsuits from users accusing it of negligent information security practices after the exchange disclosed that an unknown perpetrator had stolen customer data by bribing overseas workers.

  • May 16, 2025

    FCC Aims To Push China Out Of Telecom Certification Process

    The Federal Communications Commission has announced its plan to ban Chinese test labs and telecommunications certification bodies from being used on devices destined for the United States, and industry stakeholders have opinions on whether they think that's a good idea.

  • May 16, 2025

    Accused Fox Video Hacker's Attys Slammed For Fake Citations

    A Florida federal judge has ordered an alleged Fox News video hacker's dismissal motion stricken from the record after finding it was full of fake legal citations and demanded an explanation from defense attorneys for the "unprofessional misrepresentations."

Expert Analysis

  • Meta Case Brings Customer-Facing Statements Issue To Fore

    Author Photo

    Now that Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank has returned to California federal court after the U.S. Supreme Court in November found it improvidently granted certiorari, it will be worth watching whether customer-facing communications, such as Facebook's privacy policies, are found to be made in connection with the sale of a security, says Samuel Groner at Fried Frank.

  • A Cold War-Era History Lesson On Due Process

    Author Photo

    The landmark Harry Bridges case from the mid-20th century Red Scare offers important insights on why lawyers must be free of government reprisal, no matter who their client is, says Peter Afrasiabi at One LLP.

  • Home Depot Ruling Tolls Death Knell For 'Silent Cyber'

    Author Photo

    The Sixth Circuit's recent ruling that Home Depot's insurers did not have to cover costs from a data breach hammered one more nail in the coffin of silent cyber, where coverage is sought under standard property or commercial general liability policies that were not intended to insure cyberattack claims, say attorneys at Zelle.

  • Series

    Improv Makes Me A Better Lawyer

    Author Photo

    Improv keeps me grounded and connected to what matters most, including in my legal career where it has helped me to maintain a balance between being analytical, precise and professional, and creative, authentic and open-minded, says Justine Gottshall at InfoLawGroup.

  • How BigLaw Executive Orders May Affect Smaller Firms

    Author Photo

    Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • 4th Circ. Health Data Ruling Opens Door To State Law Claims

    Author Photo

    In Real Time Medical v. PointClickCare, the Fourth Circuit recently clarified that state law claims can rest in part on violations of a federal law that prohibits electronic health information blocking, expanding legal risks for health IT companies and potentially creating exposure to a range of competitive implications, say attorneys at BCLP.

  • Opinion

    Lawsuits Shouldn't Be Shadow Assets For Foreign Capital

    Author Photo

    Third-party litigation financing amplifies inefficiencies from litigation and facilitates national exposure to foreign influence in the U.S. justice system, so full disclosure of financing arrangements should be required as a matter of institutional integrity, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.

  • How To Accelerate Your Post-Attorney Career Transition

    Author Photo

    Professionals seeking to transition to nonattorney careers may encounter skepticism as nontraditional candidates, but there are opportunities for thought leadership and to leverage speaking and writing to accelerate a post-attorney career transition, say Janet Falk at Falk Communications and Evgeny Efremkin at Toronto Metropolitan University.

  • Opinion

    GENIUS Act Can Bring Harmony To Crypto-Banking Discord

    Author Photo

    ​​​​​​​By embracing crypto innovation while establishing appropriate guardrails, the so-called GENIUS Act charts a path forward that promotes financial inclusion and technological advancement without compromising stability or constitutional rights, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Be An Indispensable Associate

    Author Photo

    While law school teaches you to research, write and think critically, it often overlooks the professional skills you will need to make yourself an essential team player when transitioning from a summer to full-time associate, say attorneys at Stinson.

  • 23andMe Case Highlights Privacy Complexities In Ch. 11

    Author Photo

    Attorneys at Pryor Cashman discuss the interplay between a sale of personally identifiable information and bankruptcy law in light of genetics and health company 23andMe's recent filing for Chapter 11 relief.

  • Mass. AG Emerges As Key Player In Consumer Protection

    Author Photo

    Through enforcement actions and collaborations with other states — including joining a recent amicus brief decrying the defunding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has established herself as a thought leader for consumer protection and corporate accountability, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • Series

    Birding Makes Me A Better Lawyer

    Author Photo

    Observing and documenting birds in their natural habitats fosters patience, sharpens observational skills and provides moments of pure wonder — qualities that foster personal growth and enrich my legal career, says Allison Raley at Arnall Golden.

  • Series

    Calif. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q1

    Author Photo

    Among the most notable developments in California banking in the first quarter of the year, regulators and legislators issued regulations interpreting debt collection laws, stepped up enforcement actions, and expanded consumer protections for those affected by wildfires, says Stephen Britt at Severson & Werson.

  • How To Ensure Confidentiality When Using AI In Discovery

    Author Photo

    In light of a recent case in the Southern District of New York involving the dissemination of AI-generated content containing confidential information, there are steps that law firms and lawyers should take to protect client and third-party data during litigation, say attorneys at Steptoe.

Want to publish in Law360?


Submit an idea

Have a news tip?


Contact us here
Can't find the article you're looking for? Click here to search the Cybersecurity & Privacy archive.
Hello! I'm Law360's automated support bot.

How can I help you today?

For example, you can type:
  • I forgot my password
  • I took a free trial but didn't get a verification email
  • How do I sign up for a newsletter?
Ask a question!