Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • February 02, 2024

    Wells Fargo Gets Elder Abuse Suit Dismissed, For Now

    A California federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Wells Fargo of facilitating a financial scam against a senior, saying that while the bank's employees should have known something was suspicious about the victim's transactions, the bank's alleged actions did not inherently constitute elder abuse.

  • February 02, 2024

    Suspect In $400M Crypto Theft Put Under Monitoring

    The man suspected of leading a SIM swapping scheme that appears to encompass more than $400 million stolen from cryptocurrency exchange FTX appeared in Chicago federal court Friday, where he was released without bond to face federal wire fraud charges in Washington, D.C.

  • February 02, 2024

    ACLU Atty On How To Protect Civil Liberties In The AI Era

    Because artificial intelligence and algorithmic systems often operate in the shadows, there's a new need for legislation, regulation and enforcement to ensure the technology doesn't undercut civil liberties by engaging in discrimination in housing, education or employment, according to Cody Venzke, senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.

  • February 02, 2024

    Country Star Lainey Wilson Urges Congress To Tackle AI Fakes

    The rapid spread of AI-generated duplicates of individuals' likeness and voice was the subject of a congressional hearing Friday in Los Angeles ahead of this year's Grammy Awards, with country music superstar Lainey Wilson pleading with lawmakers to act to protect celebrities and their fans from deepfakes.

  • February 02, 2024

    Consumer Data Co. Cleared To Seek Ch. 11 Plan Votes

    A Pasadena, California-based consumer data gathering platform can solicit votes for a Chapter 11 plan that the company hopes to get confirmed in March, a Delaware bankruptcy judge decided on Friday.

  • February 02, 2024

    New England Patriots App Harvests Users' Data, Suit Claims

    A Massachusetts man has hit the New England Patriots with a proposed class action alleging the team's app surreptitiously tracks and shares users' personal information, including location data accurate to within 40 feet, in violation of federal video privacy laws.

  • February 02, 2024

    Ascension Says Medical Queries Don't Breach Genetic Privacy

    Questions about family medical history raised during a hospital job interview don't implicate an Illinois genetic privacy law, healthcare giant Ascension Health has told a Missouri federal court.

  • February 02, 2024

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen Dentons sued by a former high-profile partner in Saudi Arabia, Jaguar Land Rover rev its engine in the intellectual property court against automotive company HaynesPro, and the Russian National Reinsurance Company tackle a settlement with BOC Aviation over stranded aircraft. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • February 02, 2024

    Google, H&R Block Ask Court To Toss Tax Data RICO Suit

    Google and H&R Block asked a California federal court to toss a suit accusing them of scheming to intercept the private data of a man who used H&R Block's tax preparation software, saying there was no evidence the companies conspired.

  • February 02, 2024

    Crypto Course Founder To Pay SEC $1.8M Over Bogus Fund

    The creator of an online cryptocurrency course entered into a $1.8 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday after he allegedly induced more than a dozen students to invest in a cryptocurrency fund that didn't exist.

  • February 02, 2024

    New Claims Emerge Over Mortgage Biz Cyberattacks

    Mortgage lenders LoanDepot Inc. and Planet Home Lending LLC are facing new proposed class claims in federal court over cyberattacks that follow a spree of recent incidents visiting the mortgage-servicing industry.

  • February 02, 2024

    Dechert Settles Mogul's UK Hacking Claim For Millions

    Dechert has agreed to pay £3 million ($3.8 million) to resolve claims that ex-partner Neil Gerrard orchestrated the hacking of Farhad Azima and misled the English courts, in a deal that the aviation tycoon estimates could be worth as much as $15 million with costs.

  • February 02, 2024

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP steered a range of clients through cutting-edge data privacy disputes, including securing the dismissal of claims that Otonomo Inc. surreptitiously tracked drivers' locations and helping Apple Inc. escape a consumer class action over security vulnerabilities in its devices, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2024

    Voter Confidence In 2024 At Issue As Ga. Election Trial Wraps

    A monthlong trial over the integrity of Georgia's elections wrapped up Thursday in Atlanta with state officials arguing that switching from Dominion ballot-marking devices would fuel election deniers ahead of the 2024 presidential election, while voter plaintiffs said their trust is already broken by the state's use of the machines.

  • February 01, 2024

    T-Mobile Data Breach Claims Puzzle Del. Vice Chancellor

    A Delaware vice chancellor said Thursday he was "struggling" with T-Mobile US Inc. stockholder arguments that tied costly data breaches to an overseas telecom giant controller's campaign to use company data for a global AI machine-learning and data-mining campaign, exposing T-Mobile customers to multiple hacks.

  • February 01, 2024

    FTC Puts Cap On Blackbaud's Data Retention In Breach Deal

    Blackbaud Inc. has agreed to delete personal data that it doesn't need anymore and boost its data security to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's claims over a 2020 ransomware attack that affected millions of consumers, the commission announced Thursday, marking the latest regulatory action the software provider has settled over the data breach. 

  • February 01, 2024

    How Will AI Impact The Environment? Dems Want To Find Out

    As attempts to integrate artificial intelligence into products and processes speed up, Congress wants a close look at how the technology's electricity use, water needs and waste consequences are affecting the environment.

  • February 01, 2024

    IRS Violated Rights In Coinbase Doc Seizure, 1st Circ. Told

    The IRS violated an investor's property rights when it seized his financial records from the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, he told the First Circuit on Thursday, saying the government defended the violation by wrongly focusing on what it claims are the investor's lack of privacy protections.

  • February 01, 2024

    Belarusian Charged With Running BTC-e Laundering Network

    A Belarusian man has been charged with operating the digital currency exchange BTC-e, which prosecutors said was used by cyber criminals globally to launder illegally procured funds.

  • February 01, 2024

    Ill. Genetics Law Spares Life Insurance Sector, Prudential Says

    Prudential argued Tuesday that an Illinois federal judge should toss accusations it unlawfully requested an applicant's family medical history and considered that information when denying life insurance coverage, saying the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act "simply doesn't apply to life insurance."

  • February 01, 2024

    Ex-CIA Coder Who Sent Secrets To WikiLeaks Gets 40 Years

    Joshua Schulte, a former CIA programmer convicted of leaking classified material to WikiLeaks and of child pornography charges, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday by a Manhattan federal judge, who declined prosecutors' request to put the Texas computer expert away for life.

  • February 01, 2024

    Real Estate Rumors: Fortinet, Kayne Anderson, Northwind

    Fortinet has reportedly bought a Santa Clara campus for $192 million, Kayne Anderson is believed to be associated with the buyer of a $55.8 million apartment complex near Ohio State University and Northwind Group is said to be the lender behind a $70 million mortgage for a property in Jersey City.

  • February 01, 2024

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring

    Helping Microsoft stop the source of disruptive cyberattacks, advising large corporations on recovering from a Russian-linked ransomware attack and providing guidance for major military contractors on stronger U.S. Department of Defense regulatory standards earned Crowell & Moring LLP a spot on Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2024

    Class Counsel Seek $18.6M From Google Tracking Settlement

    Attorneys who represented a consolidated class of smartphone users who sued Google in Northern California, accusing the tech giant of illegally collecting and storing private location information, have asked for $18.6 million in legal fees plus expenses, citing the $62 million deal they helped ink.

  • February 01, 2024

    Trump Blocked From Bringing Russian Dossier Claim In UK

    Former President Donald Trump was prevented on Thursday from suing the authors of the infamous "Steele dossier" in the U.K. after a London judge said it would be an abuse of process for the data protection claim to proceed.

Expert Analysis

  • Developers Are Testing Defenses In Generative AI Litigation

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    In the rapidly growing field of generative artificial intelligence law in the U.S., there are a few possible defenses that have already been effectively asserted by defendants in litigation, including lack of standing, reliance on the fair use doctrine, and the legality of so-called data scraping, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

  • How Calif. Ruling Extends Worker Bias Liability To 3rd Parties

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    The California Supreme Court's recent significant decision in Raines v. U.S. Healthworks Medical Group means businesses that provide employment-related services to California employers can potentially be held liable for California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act violations, says Ryan Larocca at CDF Labor.

  • 9 Consumer Finance Issues To Note From CFPB Report

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    A recent report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau highlights abusive consumer finance tactics that the agency uncovered during supervisory examinations over the last year — among the most significant issues identified: deceptive practices in automotive loan servicing, and consumer reporting and debt collection compliance failures, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • Twitter Legal Fees Suit Offers Crash Course In Billing Ethics

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    X Corp.'s suit alleging that Wachtell grossly inflated its fees in the final days of Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition provides a case study in how firms should protect their reputations by hewing to ethical billing practices and the high standards for professional conduct that govern attorney-client relationships, says Lourdes Fuentes at Karta Legal.

  • Why It's Time To Regulate Plan Data As An Asset

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    With cyberattacks on the rise and the availability of artificial intelligence technology to the public, now is the time for the U.S. Department of Labor to regulate plan data as a plan asset to help protect participants from cybertheft and misuse, say attorneys at Michael Best.

  • EU Privacy Framework Bodes Well For US Life Sciences Cos.

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    U.S.-based life sciences companies could face data transfer challenges since they may be subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation even without having an EU presence, but a recently approved EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework may provide helpful protection at least for the near future, says Wim Nauwelaerts at Alston & Bird.

  • How 2nd Circ. Ruling Fortifies Plaintiff Standing Arguments

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    The Second Circuit's recent Bohnak v. Marsh & McLennan decision marries the concepts in TransUnion and McMorris — touchstones of Article III standing — and will bolster the standing arguments of plaintiffs who seek damages based on intangible injuries or the risk of future harms, say Raphael Janove at Pollock Cohen, Samantha Holbrook at Shub & Johns and Andrew Ferich at Ahdoot & Wolfson.

  • Self-Disclosure Lessons From Exemplary Corp. Resolutions

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    With scant examples of corporate resolutions in the wake of U.S. Department of Justice self-disclosure policy changes last fall, companies may glean helpful insights from three recent declination letters, as well as other governmental self-reporting regimes, say Lindsey Collins and Kate Rumsey at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Opinion

    Regulators Must Avert Overreach When Targeting AI

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    As financial regulators pursue artificial intelligence policy and related regulation, they should be wary of counterproductive interventions, which may stymie technology that could enhance forecasts and better reach the historically underrepresented, says Jack Solowey at the Cato Institute.

  • Companies Must Dig Up Old Laws To Stay Privacy-Compliant

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    Despite the recent focus on new privacy and data security laws, companies cannot ignore existing rules that have recently been revived, amended or reinterpreted to address emerging privacy and data security challenges, says Julia Kadish at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Despite Regulation Lag, AI Whistleblowers Have Protections

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    Potential whistleblowers at companies failing to comply with the voluntary artificial intelligence commitments must look to a patchwork of state and federal laws for protection and incentives, but deserve comprehensive regulation in this field, say Alexis Ronickher and Matthew LaGarde at Katz Banks.

  • ABA's Money-Laundering Resolution Is A Balancing Act

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    While the American Bar Association’s recently passed resolution recognizes a lawyer's duty to discontinue representation that could facilitate money laundering and other fraudulent activity, it preserves, at least for now, the delicate balance of judicial, state-based regulation of the legal profession and the sanctity of the attorney-client relationship, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.

  • FTC Settlements Widen Efforts To Shield Health Data

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    The Federal Trade Commission's recent enforcement actions aim to send a clear message that companies using tracking technologies should carefully monitor the sharing of sensitive data, particularly in the mental health, substance use disorder treatment and reproductive health care fields, say attorneys at Choate.

  • Chatbot Lawsuits Push Calif. Courts To Rethink Wiretap Law

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    Recent rulings alleging that website owners illegally eavesdrop on chatbot conversations show that courts are struggling to define the scope of California's wiretap law, and that plaintiffs are learning about the level of detail needed to plead that a chatbot is a third-party eavesdropper, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • Data Privacy Vs. Cybersecurity: What Attorneys Need To Know

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    The symbiotic interplay of data privacy laws and cybersecurity laws materializes as a pivotal cornerstone of the digital realm, and the overlaps and distinctions between the two are critical for attorneys to be conspicuously aware of while handling matters that involve personally identifiable information, says Ian Guthoff at GuarantR.

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