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Apple Suit Underscores Privacy Regulation Pressure
A lawsuit recently filed against Apple for violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act underscores not only that regulators are serious about holding companies to privacy strictures but also that companies that ...
Dunkin’ Donuts Will Pay Over Half a Million Dollar Fine After Data Breach Lawsuit
Dunkin Donuts has agreed to pay $650,000 as penalty settlement costs for the lawsuit over its failure to respond to credential stuffing attacks that compromised customer accounts between 2015 and 2019. What ...
No Trespassing: Facebook Sues for Data Scraping
On June 18, Facebook filed a civil lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco against online mobile platform Massroot8 for “scraping” data about Facebook users in violation of both Facebook’s Terms ...
Facebook Privacy Tracking Lawsuit Can Continue, Court Says
Everyone knows that when you use a social media site such as Facebook, the website is collecting information about you. I’m not sure whether, even with privacy settings set, that people know ...
Maine Suit Challenges Privacy Regulation on First Amendment Grounds
When it comes to First Amendment free speech rights, the Supreme Court has sided mostly with consumers. Will that change with a Maine case? In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down ...
SIM Swap Crypto Lawsuit Goes Forward in Los Angeles
Can AT&T be held liable for identity theft resulting from SIM swapping? In June 2017, Michael Terpin, a prominent cryptocurrency trader from Puerto Rico, turned on his cell phone and found it ...
CCPA Class Action Likely Not Too Classy
One of the most significant aspects of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the fact that consumers in California now have the right to sue companies for their losses resulting from ...
Can Antivirus Companies Use ‘Good Samaritan’ Defense to Block Rival Software?
Is the Good Samaritan clause, intended to protect against harmful materials, too broad and ripe for abuse? The essence of information security is to allow “good” things in and keep “bad” things ...
Lawsuit alleges TikTok sends user videos to Chinese servers for surveillance
A college student from Palo Alto, California is suing video-sharing service TikTok for allegedly using surveillance software designed to harvest personally identifiable information, including biometric data, and send it to China for ...
Should GitHub Be Liable for the Capital One Hack?
Probably the dumbest questions you can ask a lawyer—particularly in the wake of a massive data breach—is, “Can I sue?” The answer is almost always, “Yes.” And what would you sue for? ...
