/cybersecurity-privacy?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Cybersecurity & Privacy Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:56:46 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327356?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327356 Rural broadband companies are voicing opposition to a recent Federal Communications Commission decision requiring them to combat cybersecurity threats, saying the commission failed to consider the regulatory burden the new rules would impose on carriers. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:39:49 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327244?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327244 The Fifth Circuit has wiped out the $57 million fine that the Federal Communications Commission slapped AT&T with after it and the other major mobile carriers were found to have been selling off people's location data, saying such a penalty without a jury trial was unconstitutional. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:31:02 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327590?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327590 A Washington federal judge on Friday approved a $6.5 million settlement to end a class action alleging Amazon.com affiliate PillPack LLC was responsible for unsolicited telemarketing calls that ran afoul of federal consumer law against robocalls and texts. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:54:52 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327621?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327621 An Austin, Texas-based telecom sought Friday to shake a nearly $4.5 million fine by the Federal Communications Commission after the Fifth Circuit tossed an unrelated $57 million penalty against AT&T based on last year's high court ruling in SEC v. Jarkesy curtailing agency fines. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:44:25 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326891?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326891 As companies increasingly revisit return-to-office mandates, multinational employers may face challenges in enforcing uniform RTO practices globally, but several key considerations and practical solutions can help avoid roadblocks, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:40:18 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327332?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327332 A former Loyola University Chicago athlete filed a proposed class action accusing an ex-University of Michigan football coach of orchestrating a years-long cyber sexual assault by hacking into university athletic databases and stealing intimate photos and medical data of over 150,000 students, and asserting that the university and its vendor enabled the breach. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:32:33 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327613?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327613 After a crypto user exploited a software bug to create millions of dollars' worth of new tokens from a blockchain network, a Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP team defeated his claim to the tokens — and won an award worth millions — by showing that faulty code can't stand in for rule of law. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:18:53 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327432?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327432 The Social Security Administration cannot give Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to personal data within the agency's system, a Maryland federal judge ruled, saying the government "cannot flout" federal privacy law while granting an injunction to unions and a retiree advocacy group. Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:34:09 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2325931?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2325931 Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:06:38 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2313146?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2313146 The Republican-led Federal Trade Commission is poised to pursue a data privacy agenda focused on established harms and statutory authorities rather than ambitious rulemaking, although the recent firing of two commissioners casts doubt on the long-term viability of these actions and the future of a crucial transatlantic data transfer pact. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:04:24 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2324727?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2324727 Meta Platforms' former longtime board member and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg pushed back Thursday on crucial Federal Trade Commission arguments trying to shape the market the social media giant is accused of monopolizing, criticizing a friends and family definition the FTC is using to exclude TikTok as a competitor. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:55:48 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326530?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326530 A Virginia federal judge trimmed just over $150,000 in attorney fees requested by a bowling alley chain after winning summary judgment in a suit against its former chief information officer, whom it accused of hacking into its computer system and CEO's email. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:51:42 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327088?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327088 A Washington state-based diagnostic testing services provider for Planned Parenthood has been hit with a pair of proposed class actions in Seattle federal court over an October data breach that reportedly impacted as many as 1.6 million people. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:12:09 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327155 A California federal judge on Thursday entered a summary judgment favoring Prudential Financial and a software vendor in a certified class action accusing them of illegally recording consumer information in violation of the state's invasion of privacy law, finding that no evidence showed the vendor read or tried to read customers' communications. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:00:44 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326596?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326596 Washington's highest court said in a 5-4 ruling Thursday that the state's spam law bars commercial emails that include any false information in their subject lines, endorsing two consumers' broader interpretation of the statute in a proposed class action against Old Navy. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:45:20 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326895?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326895 Companies that offer medical lien and presettlement funding for personal injury plaintiffs were hit Thursday with a proposed class action accusing them of allowing hackers to obtain the sensitive data of "thousands to tens of thousands" of clients, according to a complaint filed in North Carolina federal court. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:44:07 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326474?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326474 A federal judge declined to force a Tennessee man into arbitration in his suit accusing a health insurance brokerage of making illegal robocalls, ruling that the plaintiff had created enough doubt to get to trial. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:22:11 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327124?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327124 A think tank claimed Thursday the Federal Communications Commission went too far when floating a nearly $4.5 million fine against a telecom for alleged robocall violations and that due process concerns call for rescinding the penalty. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:01:59 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327169?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2327169 Mercer University and a group of former students and a professor got final approval Thursday for a settlement that will end claims the university failed to safeguard the personal information of some 93,000 people leading up to a 2023 data breach. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:48:25 +0000 /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326523?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /cybersecurity-privacy/articles/2326523 Citing company controller clout and alleged minority stockholder sidelining, a SolarWinds Corp. stock-owning trust has sued in Delaware's Court of Chancery for documents related to the company's $4.4 billion, $18.50-per-share take-public deal from Turn/River Capital LP.