Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • October 03, 2025

    Roush's NASCAR Team Accused Of Exposing Employee Data

    Professional stock car racing team Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing LLC has been hit with a putative class action in North Carolina federal court accusing it of failing to safeguard employees' sensitive information, resulting in a data breach.

  • October 03, 2025

    Full 6th Circ. Skips Free Speech Row Over Drone Hunting Ban

    The Sixth Circuit on Friday declined to reconsider whether Michigan's ban on the use of drones for hunting violates the right to free speech, finding the issue was already covered in an earlier ruling, but warning the case could raise bigger First Amendment concerns in the future.

  • October 03, 2025

    TD Bank Sent $1.1M To Scammer, Conn. Biz Says

    A family-owned painting and contracting company sued TD Bank in Connecticut state court, alleging that the bank is responsible for the company losing more than $1.1 million to a scammer, which forced the business to freeze its payroll and cease operations.

  • October 03, 2025

    DC Circ. Split On Challenge To IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Deal

    D.C. Circuit judges seemed split Friday over whether an information-sharing agreement between immigration authorities and the IRS complies with taxpayer privacy protections, with one judge noting during oral arguments that the government immigration arm requesting the tax information appears unauthorized to make the requests.

  • October 03, 2025

    The Roberts Court At 20: How The Chief Is Reshaping America

    Twenty years after John Roberts became the 17th chief justice of the United States, he faces a U.S. Supreme Court term that's looking transformative for the country and its institutions. How Justice Roberts and his colleagues navigate mounting distrust in the judiciary and set the boundaries of presidential authority appear increasingly likely to define his time leading the court.

  • October 02, 2025

    Walmart Can't Arbitrate Suit Over Health Purchase Disclosures

    A California federal judge rejected Walmart's bid to send to arbitration a proposed class action accusing the retail giant of illegally sharing information about sensitive health items that website visitors purchased, finding that the website's terms of service weren't prominent enough to establish a binding agreement to arbitrate. 

  • October 02, 2025

    Biz Org Says DC Circ. Must Rethink T-Mobile's Privacy Fine

    The Chamber of Commerce is throwing its weight behind T-Mobile and Sprint as they ask the full D.C. Circuit to rethink the appellate court's decision not to knock out $92 million in fines the telecoms were slapped with for selling users' sensitive location data even after they knew it was being used inappropriately.

  • October 02, 2025

    Ad Tech Judge Sees 'Tension' In Google's Economist

    A Virginia federal judge told Google's economics expert Thursday that there's "tension" in his assertions that remedies for the company's advertising placement technology monopolies must be narrowly tailored to block the particular anticompetitive findings won by the U.S. Justice Department.

  • October 02, 2025

    Disability Group To Pay At Least $1M For Misleading Calls

    A disability advocacy group will pay at least $1 million to the Federal Trade Commission to wash its hands of claims that it made "tens of millions of illegal calls" to people in order to solicit their business and weren't upfront about why they were calling.

  • October 02, 2025

    Roblox Faces 2 More Suits Claiming It Lets Predators Slide

    Roblox has been hit with two more lawsuits alleging that it fails to stop online predators from using its gaming platform to groom and sexually exploit children, with one brought by a minor who says she was lured to a motel room where she was raped by five men.

  • October 02, 2025

    Debt Collector's $2.6M Data Breach Deal Gets Final Nod

    Debt collection agency and buyer NCB Management Services Inc. and its investors have gotten the final nod to their $2.63 million deal to end consolidated proposed class action claims that NCB failed to protect more than a million consumers after a trove of their personal information was compromised in a ransomware attack.

  • October 02, 2025

    FINRA Fines CashApp Unit $375K Over Data Protection Lapse

    The brokerage unit of payments giant Cash App will pay a $375,000 fine to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to resolve claims it failed to keep user data safe after a former employee downloaded reports containing personal information on millions of the firm's customers. 

  • October 02, 2025

    Mich. Panel Says Probationer's Text Barrage Wasn't Stalking

    A Michigan appeals panel has ordered the acquittal of a man who was convicted of stalking for incessantly texting his probation officer's work cell phone at all hours of the day and night about probation-related matters, saying "rambling" messages are not a crime.

  • October 02, 2025

    Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

    Lobbying at the Federal Communications Commission slowed in September, continuing a late-summer lag, but several groups kept busy on several issues. Here's a look at a few groups that contacted the FCC at least three times during September and a sampling of what they care about.

  • October 02, 2025

    Flagstar Customers Want OK On $31M Data Breach Deal

    A proposed class alleging Flagstar Bank didn't protect customer and employee information from two data breaches asked a Michigan federal judge Wednesday to give the initial approval for a $31.5 million settlement to resolve the case.

  • October 02, 2025

    IRS Data-Sharing Case Won't Be Paused For Gov't Shutdown

    The U.S. Department of Justice must still submit court-ordered information in a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service's sharing of tax data with immigration authorities by Oct. 24, a D.C. federal judge ruled, despite the federal government shutdown that began Wednesday.

  • October 02, 2025

    LinkedIn Sues Over Alleged 'Industrial-Scale' Data Scraping

    LinkedIn Corp. sued ProAPIs, Netswift and its co-founder Rehmat Alam in California federal court Thursday, alleging the software-makers operate "industrial-scale" data scraping mills that violate LinkedIn's terms and numerous other laws by continuously creating fake accounts to extract LinkedIn's member data, which they then sell without permission.

  • October 02, 2025

    Many Cos. Not Ready For National Security Risks, Report Says

    At least a third of U.S. companies aren't fully prepared to address key national security compliance risks they face, and the C-suite often isn't aligned with its in-house counsel as to who is primarily responsible for those efforts, according to a new survey from Eversheds Sutherland.

  • October 02, 2025

    National Security Vets, App-Devs Back Google In Epic Fight

    A group of former national security officials and scholars is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the district court injunction requiring Google to distribute third-party app stores and allow app developers to provide alternate payment links directly to users, saying the order creates serious national and cybersecurity risks.

  • October 02, 2025

    UChicago Medicine Ducks Class Claims In Patient Privacy Suit

    A UChicago Medicine patient can move forward with amended privacy violation claims over the medical center's allegedly illegal use of Meta pixel tracking tools but must leave her class allegations behind, given an agreement she entered between pleadings, an Illinois federal judge ruled.

  • October 02, 2025

    Judge Nixes Pegasystems Shareholder Suits Over $2B Verdict

    A Massachusetts state court has dismissed a pair of investor lawsuits against Pegasystems officials that had sought to hold them responsible for a $2 billion verdict in a trade secrets case, finding no evidence of bad faith on the part of the software company's board.

  • October 02, 2025

    Crowell Cybersecurity Pro Joins Holland & Knight's DC Office

    Holland & Knight LLP has added a former practice group leader from Crowell & Moring LLP who spent more than 11 years there working with privacy and cybersecurity issues and counseling clients on data privacy risks and other related matters.

  • October 01, 2025

    Tornado Cash Boss Seeks Acquittal After Partial Mistrial

    Tornado Cash's Roman Storm on Tuesday urged a New York federal court to acquit the cryptocurrency tumbler co-founder of enabling more than $1 billion in money laundering transactions, as questions remain even among government officials about criminal liability for software developers of open-source privacy tech.

  • October 01, 2025

    FTC Halts Fraud Complaints, Spam Call Help Amid Shutdown

    The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that none of its mechanisms for reporting fraud, including identity theft, will be available to consumers while the federal government is shut down, nor will the National Do Not Call Registry be operational for consumers or telemarketers.

  • October 01, 2025

    Accellion Breach Plaintiffs Get Cert. For Narrow Subclasses

    A California federal judge has agreed to allow plaintiffs to proceed with five subclasses in their dispute with Accellion over allegations the company failed to protect against cyberattacks on its file-sharing software, while finding that a lack of "cohesion" doomed their chances to certify a broader negligence class of roughly 5 million breach victims. 

Expert Analysis

  • A Look At New Calif. Cybersecurity, Risk Assessment Rules

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    The California Privacy Protection Agency Board recently finalized regulations related to automated decision-making technology, cybersecurity audits and risk assessments that establish additional requirements on businesses operating in California, and although these new rules are less onerous than some of the draft rules, compliance may still require substantial planning and updates, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Lessons From 7th Circ.'s Deleted Chat Sanctions Ruling

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    The Seventh Circuit’s recent decision in Pable v. Chicago Transit Authority, affirming the dismissal of an ex-employee’s retaliation claims, highlights the importance of properly handling the preservation of ephemeral messages and clarifies key sanctions issues, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.

  • Divest Order Shows How Security Fears Extend CFIUS Scope

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    A recent White House order forcing a Chinese company to divest its 2020 acquisition of a U.S. audiovisual supplier demonstrates the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ growing power to sink foreign transactions over national security concerns — and the enormous risks to U.S. companies from such reviews, say attorneys at Bass Berry.

  • Series

    Quilting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Turning intricate patterns of fabric and thread into quilts has taught me that craftsmanship, creative problem-solving and dedication to incremental progress are essential to creating something lasting that will help another person — just like in law, says Veronica McMillan at Kramon & Graham.

  • Lessons Learned 3 Years After First CCPA Enforcement Action

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    Three years after the first public enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act, Attorney General Rob Bonta has pursued a steady stream of enforcement actions across industries, providing a clearer picture of how the law is being interpreted and enforced, says Tatum Andres at Kilpatrick.

  • 2 Appellate Rulings Offer Clickwrap Enforcement Road Map

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    Two recent decisions from the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits in cases involving Experian signal that federal appellate courts are recognizing clickwrap agreements' power in spite of their simplicity, and offer practical advice on how companies can sufficiently demonstrate notice and assent when attempting to enforce contractual terms, says Brian Willett at Saul Ewing.

  • What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI

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    After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.

  • Crypto Custody Guidelines Buoy Both Banks And Funds

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    A statement released last month by banking regulators — highlighting risks that the agencies expect banks holding crypto-assets to mitigate — may encourage more traditional institutions to offer crypto-asset safekeeping and thereby offer asset managers more options for qualified custodians to custody crypto-assets for their clients, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan

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    President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • Reel Justice: 'Eddington' Spotlights Social Media Evidence

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    In the neo-Western black comedy “Eddington” released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

  • Rebuttal

    BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation

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    A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.

  • 9th Circ. Leaves Scope Of CIPA Applicability Unclear

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    Three recent Ninth Circuit decisions declined to directly address whether all of the California Invasion of Privacy Act's provisions actually apply to internet activity, and given this uncertainty, companies should heed five recommendations when seeking to minimize CIPA litigation risk, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • 5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust

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    Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.

  • Notable Q2 Updates In Insurance Class Actions

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    Vehicle valuation challenges regarding the use of projected sale adjustments continued apace in insurance class actions this quarter, where insurers have been scoring victories on class certification decisions in federal circuit courts, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.

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    Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.

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