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Latest News in Cybersecurity & Privacy
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March 18, 2024
Apple Co-Founder's Scam Suit Against YouTube Gets New Life
A California appeals court has revived Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's lawsuit accusing YouTube and its parent company, Google, of contributing to a cryptocurrency scam that fraudulently used his image, finding that the tech giants' provision of verification badges to corrupted channels could put them outside the scope of a federal tech liability shield law.
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March 18, 2024
Meta Wants Emergency Stop Of FTC Privacy Tweaks
Meta is seeking an immediate injunction to halt the Federal Trade Commission's changes to its 2020 settlement with the company, asking the D.C. Circuit to hear its appeal before the social media giant must respond to a show cause order on why the deal shouldn't be modified.
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March 18, 2024
Texas Hospital Loses Bid To Dismiss Patients' Hack Suit
A Texas federal judge handed a win to the plaintiffs suing a hospital system in the aftermath of a hack that saw hundreds of patients' data pilfered, dismissing some of the claims in the proposed class action but allowing the suit to move forward after a hearing Monday.
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March 18, 2024
SEC's Grewal Defends 'Shadow Trading' Case Ahead Of Trial
The enforcement director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday defended the agency's stance in a novel "shadow trading" case one week before it's set to go to trial, saying that while it's the first case of its kind, the underlying allegations aren't new.
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March 18, 2024
GOP Rep. Calls For Crackdown On EV Threats From China
Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., a member of the House select committee on China's Communist Party and a U.S. Senate candidate, has asked the Commerce Department to investigate the imports of electronic vehicles and their components and the possible security threats to the United States from electronics from China.
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
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- Wiretap and spying probes
- Identity theft charges
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- 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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