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Latest News in Cybersecurity & Privacy
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December 10, 2025
FTC Upholds 2021 Ban On SpyFone CEO's Surveillance Apps
The Federal Trade Commission has refused to revisit its 2021 order permanently banning the marketer of the surveillance app SpyFone from distributing the product or similar monitoring services, finding that the company's CEO had failed to show that there had been any changes in the law, the agency's priorities or other relevant circumstances in recent years.
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December 10, 2025
Atty Fees In Meta Pixel Privacy Action Reduced In Final Deal
A New York federal judge has reduced an attorney fees award by about $100,000 in a Video Privacy Protection Act class action settlement with Scientific American's publisher, modifying the fees to approximately $200,000 in his order granting final approval of the deal.
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December 10, 2025
Wyoming Charts New Legal Path To Launch Frontier Token
When a former federal prosecutor, now cryptocurrency regulator, was tasked with writing the rules to govern the first state-issued stablecoin, she looked to the U.S. Constitution and Wyoming's own laws to ensure the legality of the project rather than Congress' stablecoin law.
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December 10, 2025
HealthEC Data Hack Class Seeks OK Of $5.5M Privacy Deal
Over 1.6 million patients affected by HealthEC's cybersecurity attack in 2023 asked a New Jersey magistrate judge for her final stamp of approval on a $5.48 million class action settlement, arguing Monday the resolution includes additional, significant benefits like Medical Shield Complete which protects them from healthcare-related fraud.
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December 10, 2025
Gov't Urges Combining Verizon, AT&T Cases Over FCC Fines
The Federal Communications Commission has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pair Verizon's appeal of a $46 million FCC penalty with a similar case involving AT&T that centers on the FCC's ability to issue fines without a jury trial.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Trade Commission
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Department of Justice
- State and international privacy regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Children’s Online Privacy Protections Act
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
- Cybersecurity Act of 2015
- Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Junk Fax Prevention Act
- Privacy Act of 1974
- Right to Financial Privacy Act
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act
- State and international privacy legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Data breach investigations
- Hacking, spamming, and other online privacy enforcement
- Wiretap and spying probes
- Identity theft charges
- Privacy and data security compliance efforts
- LITIGATION
- Suits over access to, sharing of, or improper use of personal records, including employment, health, and financial data
- Disputes over data hacks and classified information leaks
- Cases involving the coverage of data-related liability
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of privacy practices
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- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
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