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Latest News in Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • January 13, 2026

    Meta Shakes App Users' Location Data Privacy Suit, For Now

    A California federal judge has shut down a proposed class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of illegally collecting location data from users of third-party apps that installed the company's tracking software, finding that the plaintiffs hadn't plausibly alleged that Meta knew it didn't have permission to access this data.

  • January 13, 2026

    Google Engineer Cut-And-Pasted To Evade Security, Jury Told

    A Google security manager took the stand Tuesday in the criminal trial of an engineer accused of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets, testifying that his investigation showed that Linwei Ding evaded Google's internal security systems by cutting and pasting the data in a way that stripped information identifying Google's authorship.

  • January 13, 2026

    Tech, AI Expert Tapped For Calif. Privacy Agency's Board

    A leading expert on data privacy, surveillance and artificial intelligence who has spearheaded major initiatives at UC Law San Francisco and the American Civil Liberties Union has been selected as the latest member of the California Privacy Protection Agency's five-member board.

  • January 13, 2026

    CrowdStrike Beats Investor Fraud Suit Over 2024 Outage

    A Texas federal judge has tossed a shareholder suit against CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. over its massive 2024 outage that downed computers worldwide, finding the plaintiffs failed to adequately plead any misleading statements about steps the cybersecurity company was taking to prevent such a system crash.

  • January 13, 2026

    Wash. Officials Challenge 9th Circ.'s X Corp. Standing Ruling

    A group of current and former Washington state officials urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to review a man's proposed class action accusing X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, of violating a state telephone privacy law, telling justices that allowing the Ninth Circuit's ruling in the case to stand would erode state sovereignty and potentially lead to a circuit split.

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