Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • September 09, 2025

    Medical Marijuana Cyberbreach Cases Eye Consolidation

    Consumers who say their personal information was exposed in a data breach caused by the failures of an Ohio company that helps people secure medical marijuana cards have asked a federal court to combine the growing number of proposed class actions.

  • September 09, 2025

    7th Circ. Questions Decertifying Amazon Makeup Try-On Class

    Two judges on a Seventh Circuit panel seemed skeptical Tuesday that individual location questions or the risk of a substantial damages award require reversing a district court decision certifying a 160,000-member class in a biometric privacy suit targeting a virtual makeup try-on feature in Amazon's app.

  • September 09, 2025

    IRS Ordered To Notify Court Of ICE Info-Sharing Requests

    A D.C. federal judge in a series of orders Friday and Tuesday said the IRS must notify the court within 24 hours of receiving a request from immigration authorities for taxpayer information and hand over administrative records while the court considers a request to stop the intergovernmental data sharing.

  • September 09, 2025

    TransUnion Faces Suit Over Data Breach Affecting 4.4M

    TransUnion LLC is under fire in Illinois federal court after a woman filed a proposed class action Monday against the credit bureau claiming approximately 4.4 million customers had their personal information stolen in a cyberattack against the company earlier this year.

  • September 09, 2025

    DC Says Crypto ATM Operator Profits Off Senior Scams

    Athena Bitcoin, one of the country's largest operators of so-called bitcoin automated teller machines, has been sued by the D.C. attorney general for allegedly charging undisclosed fees on deposits it knew were often the result of scams, for failing to implement adequate anti-fraud measures, and for refusing to refund scam victims.

  • September 09, 2025

    Gilgo Beach DNA Evidence Ruling May Propel New Methods

    A recent ruling from the New York judge overseeing the Gilgo Beach serial killer case finding that the newer DNA testing method known as whole genome sequencing clears rigorous admissibility standards is a laudable decision that could help solve cold cases, according to proponents of the technology.

  • September 09, 2025

    Particle's Antitrust Battle With Epic: 3 Things To Know

    Epic Systems Corp. must face allegations it violated federal law by attempting to monopolize a segment of the electronic health records market to the exclusion of competitor Particle Health Inc. Here's what you need to know about the case.

  • September 09, 2025

    9th Circ. Declines To Block Most Of Social Media Addiction Law

    The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday largely rejected a tech trade group's effort to block California from enforcing a law barring online platforms from using algorithms to deliver addictive feeds to children, saying a requirement to hide "likes" and share counts must be enjoined but challenges to other provisions are either unripe or fact-intensive.

  • September 09, 2025

    FinCEN Chief Signals Slimmer Bank Reporting On The Way

    A top U.S. financial crime watchdog told lawmakers Tuesday that federal officials could soon move to narrow transaction reporting requirements for financial institutions as part of a broader effort to ease anti-money laundering compliance burdens for industry.

  • September 09, 2025

    Coinbase Vendor Called 'Major' Cog In 'Insider Bribery' MDL

    A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday that a Texas-based Coinbase vendor called TaskUs will be a "major participant" in multidistrict litigation centralized in New York over allegations that thousands of Coinbase customers were victimized in a bribery-fueled data compromise.

  • September 09, 2025

    VC Firm's Top Atty Rejoins Skadden To Lead Tech Policy Team

    The former chief legal and policy officer at California-based Sequoia Capital is returning to Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to lead the firm's tech policy practice, advising clients on related regulation and enforcement matters, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • September 09, 2025

    Pentagon Finalizes Cybersecurity Rule For Contractors

    The U.S. Department of Defense released its long-anticipated final rule on Tuesday detailing how the agency will incorporate its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, aimed at boosting cybersecurity standards across the defense industrial base, into defense contracts.

  • September 08, 2025

    Claims Against UMich Trimmed In Ex-Coach Hacking Suit

    Former student-athletes on Monday agreed to drop the majority of their claims against the University of Michigan in sprawling federal litigation alleging its former co-offensive coordinator hacked personal information of thousands of students across the country as part of an agreement to pursue the claims in state court. 

  • September 08, 2025

    Burger King Can't Force Arbitration Of Website Tracking Row

    A California federal judge has refused to send to arbitration a proposed class action accusing Burger King's parent company of illegally tracking website visitors who had opted out of the practice, finding that the plaintiff had neither affirmatively agreed to arbitrate nor waived his right to challenge the existence of such a pact.

  • September 08, 2025

    9th Circ. Affirms Toss Of Illuminate Education Data Breach Suit

    A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a proposed class action Monday filed against Illuminate Education Inc. by parents of children whose personal information may have been exposed in a massive data breach, holding the plaintiffs did not demonstrate that any harms were suffered. 

  • September 08, 2025

    Unions Knock 'Flawed' 4th Circ. Injunction Take In DOGE Row

    A split Fourth Circuit panel's decision to vacate an injunction targeting the Department of Government Efficiency created a flawed framework for evaluating whether an injunction is appropriate, a coalition of unions argued Monday, asking the full Fourth Circuit to override the majority's "sharp departure from established precedents."

  • September 08, 2025

    Google Tells Judge Not To Break Up Ad Tech Biz

    Google has urged a Virginia federal judge not to impose the "severe, counterproductive, and unprecedented remedy" of breaking up its advertising placement technology business, and has pushed its own proposed fixes over those sought by the U.S. Department of Justice in the upcoming monopoly remedies trial.

  • September 08, 2025

    FCC To Revoke Authorizations For Foreign-Owned 'Bad Labs'

    The Federal Communications Commission on Monday began revoking U.S. authorizations for seven communications equipment-testing labs it says are controlled by foreign adversaries.

  • September 08, 2025

    Home Depot Sued Over AI Self-Checkout Surveillance

    Home Depot was sued by a putative class of customers in Illinois federal court Friday claiming a "computer vision" surveillance system at its stores' self-checkout kiosks capture scans of their facial geometry without the disclosures and consent required under Illinois' biometric privacy law.

  • September 08, 2025

    23andMe's Ch. 11 Sale Flouted State Privacy Law, Calif. Says

    The state of California has asked a Missouri federal judge to undo the $305 million bankruptcy sale of consumer DNA testing group 23andMe, arguing it sidestepped state consumer data protections.

  • September 08, 2025

    Ex-Ebix CEO Accuses Owners Of Revenge Porn Blackmail

    The ousted former CEO of Georgia-based software firm Ebix Inc. has alleged that the company's owner attempted to blackmail him into dropping a lawsuit over his severance pay by threatening to release "intimate images" of him and his wife.

  • September 08, 2025

    Texas Couple Fights Firm's Sanctions Bid In Crash Data Suit

    A Houston couple who accused a law firm and a since-dismissed Progressive unit of conspiring to share car crash victims' private information told a Texas federal court that their suit is "neither frivolous, unreasonable, nor improper" as they pushed back against the law firm's sanctions request. 

  • September 08, 2025

    Chief Justice Pauses FTC Commissioner's Reinstatement

    Chief Justice John Roberts issued an order Monday temporarily staying the reinstatement of Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter while the Trump administration fights to bring a case challenging her removal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • September 05, 2025

    SEC Lost Year's Worth Of Gary Gensler Texts, Watchdog Says

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made "avoidable errors" that caused the agency to lose all text messages sent and received by former chair Gary Gensler for nearly a year of his tenure, some of which haven't been recovered, according to a report from the SEC's Office of Inspector General.

  • September 05, 2025

    Stewart Tackles Markets, Injunctions In Newest PTAB Reviews

    Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart released 14 institution decisions in the last week, providing more insight on the scope of settled expectations and the impact of a district court preliminary injunction.

Expert Analysis

  • 9th Circ. Has Muddied Waters Of Article III Pleading Standard

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    District courts in the Ninth Circuit continue to apply a defunct and especially forgiving pleading standard to questions of Article III standing, and the circuit court itself has only perpetuated this confusion — making it an attractive forum for disputes that have no rightful place in federal court, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • How Cos. Can Prep For Calif. Cybersecurity Audit Regulations

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    As the California Privacy Protection Agency Board finalizes cybersecurity audit requirements, companies should take six steps to prepare for the audit itself and to build a compliant cybersecurity program that can pass the audit, say attorneys at Covington.

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    Competing In Modern Pentathlon Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Opening myself up to new experiences through competing in modern Olympic pentathlon has shrunk the appearance of my daily work annoyances and helps me improve my patience, manage crises better and remember that acquiring new skills requires working through your early mistakes, says attorney Mary Zoldak.

  • Policy Shifts May Follow Burst Of Defense Cyber Settlements

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    Recent False Claims Act settlements with defense contractors MORSECORP and Nightwing suggest that cybersecurity standards for government contractors remain a key enforcement priority, but these may represent a final flurry of activity before the Trump administration transitions to different policy goals, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Teaching Yourself Legal Tech

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    New graduates often enter practice unfamiliar with even basic professional software, but budding lawyers can use on-the-job opportunities to both catch up on technological skills and explore the advanced legal and artificial intelligence tools that will open doors, says Alyssa Sones at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Explicit Pic Takedown Law Casts A Wide Net

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    With a surprisingly broad range of online platforms potentially subject to the new Take It Down Act’s process for removing revenge porn or explicit deepfakes, all services that allow user interaction or content hosting should proactively evaluate their legal obligations and demonstrate compliance, say attorneys at Goodwin, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • How AI May Reshape The Future Of Adjudication

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    As discussed at a recent panel at Texas A&M, artificial intelligence will not erase the human element of adjudication in the next 10 to 20 years, but it will drive efficiencies that spur private arbiters to experiment, lead public courts to evolve and force attorneys to adapt, says Christopher Seck at Squire Patton.

  • When Legal Advocacy Crosses The Line Into Incivility

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    As judges issue sanctions for courtroom incivility, and state bars advance formal discipline rules, trial lawyers must understand that the difference between zealous advocacy and unprofessionalism is not just a matter of tone; it's a marker of skill, credibility and potentially disciplinary exposure, says Nate Sabri at Perkins Coie.

  • How Medical Practices Can Improve Privacy Compliance

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    In light of recent high-profile patient privacy violations, health practices — especially in California — should better position themselves to comply with medical privacy laws by shoring up strategies ranging from mapping electronic protected health information to building a better compliance culture, says Suzanne Natbony at Aliant Law.

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    Volunteering At Schools Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Speaking to elementary school students about the importance of college and other opportunities after high school — especially students who may not see those paths reflected in their daily lives — not only taught me the importance of giving back, but also helped to sharpen several skills essential to a successful legal practice, says Guillermo Escobedo at Constangy.

  • Attacks On Judicial Independence Tend To Manifest In 3 Ways

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    Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.

  • Loophole To Budget Bill's AI Rule May Complicate Tech Regs

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    An exception in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that could allow state and local governments to develop ostensibly technology-neutral laws that nonetheless circumvent the bill’s ban on state artificial intelligence regulation could unintentionally create a more complex regulatory environment for technologies beyond AI, says Pooya Shoghi at Lee & Hayes.

  • OCC's Digital Embrace Delivers Risk, Opportunity For Banks

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    As the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency continues to release and seek more information on banks' participation in the crypto-asset arena, institutions may see greater opportunity to pursue digital asset and custody services, but must simultaneously educate themselves on transformations occurring throughout the industry, says Kirstin Kanski at Spencer Fane.

  • Remediation Still Reigns Despite DOJ's White Collar Shake-Up

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    Though the U.S. Department of Justice’s recently announced corporate enforcement policy changes adopt a softer tone acknowledging the risks of overregulation, the DOJ has not shifted its compliance and remediation expectations, which remain key to more favorable resolutions, say Jonny Frank, Michele Edwards and Chris Hoyle at StoneTurn.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Appreciating Civil Procedure

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    If you’re like me, law school’s often complex and theoretical approach to teaching civil procedure may have contributed to an early struggle with the topic, but when seen from a practical perspective, new lawyers may find they enjoy mastering these rules, says Chloe Villagomez at Foster Garvey.

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