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Cybersecurity & Privacy
Cybersecurity & Privacy Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on cybersecurity and privacy law. Coverage includes cybersecurity and privacy suits and enforcement actions, data protection compliance issues, data breaches, as well as domestic and international policy developments.
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Latest News in Cybersecurity & Privacy
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March 20, 2026
5th Circ. Wipes Out FTC's TurboTax 'Deceptive' Ad Ruling
The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated the Federal Trade Commission's cease-and-desist order imposed on Intuit Inc. for its TurboTax advertising that regulators say duped customers into thinking they could file their tax returns for free, saying the agency's in-house decision is unconstitutional, and the dispute must go to federal court.
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March 20, 2026
PowerSchool, Bain Can't Skirt MDL Over Student Data Breach
A California federal judge has refused to toss multidistrict litigation seeking to hold PowerSchool and its majority stakeholder Bain Capital liable for a data breach that exposed roughly 50 million individuals' personal data, finding that Bain's involvement in the education technology provider's cybersecurity operations "went beyond what an ordinary investor would do."
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March 20, 2026
Feds Rip Ex-NFL Player's New Trial Bid Over Medicare Scheme
The federal government opposed a new trial bid by Keith Gray, a former NFL player and Texas laboratory owner convicted in a $328 million scheme involving billing for unnecessary cardiovascular genetic testing for Medicare beneficiaries, arguing Thursday he lacks any valid basis to "disturb the jury's sound verdict."
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March 20, 2026
Jury Finds Tech Co. Data Analyst Guilty Of Extortion Scheme
A data analyst contracted to work for a Washington, D.C.-based technology company was hit with a federal jury verdict finding him guilty of conducting a cyber extortion scheme that threatened to disclose employees and executives' personal information if they didn't pay him $2.5 million.
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March 20, 2026
Social Media Jury Signals Potential Trouble For Meta, Google
After six full days deliberating in a California bellwether trial over allegations that Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC harm children's mental health through their social media platforms, the jury submitted a question to the judge potentially indicating it may be leaning in favor of finding one or both defendants liable.
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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- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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