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Latest News in Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • February 04, 2026

    DC Circ. Preserves Secrecy Of DOJ's Gag Orders On Google

    The D.C. Circuit has rejected a nonprofit group's push to unmask applications filed by the U.S. Department of Justice that blocked Google from informing one of its email subscribers about a subpoena for some of his account data, agreeing with the lower court that the records were shielded by grand jury secrecy rules.

  • February 04, 2026

    'Extraordinary Circumstances': Elon Musk Faces USAID Depo

    A Maryland federal judge on Wednesday said billionaire Elon Musk must testify in litigation filed by U.S. Agency for International Development employees claiming he illegally dismantled the foreign aid agency while head of the advisory organization known as the Department of Government Efficiency, saying "extraordinary circumstances justify the deposition."

  • February 04, 2026

    Calif. Court Revives Walmart Worker's Background Check Suit

    California appellate justices Wednesday revived a Walmart employee's lawsuit alleging the retailer added extraneous consumer reporting agencies in a background check notice during her hiring process, finding she has standing since Walmart obscured the specific agency that provided the report and the ways she could contact the agency to fix errors.

  • February 04, 2026

    HPE Backs DOJ Bid For Final Merger Deal Approval

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has endorsed the Justice Department's bid for final approval of a controversial settlement permitting the $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, telling a California federal judge that Democratic state attorneys general have nothing but "vague and inaccurate accusations" that the deal was improper.

  • February 04, 2026

    SPEX Urges Fed. Circ. To Revert Slashed $1 IP Win To $553M

    SPEX Technologies Inc. is asking the Federal Circuit to reinstate the $553 million award it had won against Western Digital for patent infringement, after a California federal judge lowered it to a single dollar.

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