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May 08, 2026
The operator of Canvas, a popular educational software tool used by thousands of schools and universities, is facing more than a half-dozen proposed class actions filed in Utah and New York federal courts following its disclosure of a cyberattack tied to a hacking group that's claimed to have gained access to personal data belonging to more than 275 million students and teachers.
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May 08, 2026
Artificial intelligence is "significantly transforming" the cybersecurity threat landscape for banks while also presenting opportunities to help defend against those heightened risks, according to a new report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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May 08, 2026
Recent suits by a social media user and two state attorneys general in their bids to hold Meta and other tech giants accountable for the allegedly addictive nature of their platforms have brought to the forefront a potentially lucrative strategy for more broadly regulating online harms, as the First Amendment and other roadblocks continue to stymie legislative efforts.
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May 08, 2026
Social media's degree of blame for New Mexico teens' mental health challenges can be statistically isolated and quantified, a health computational scientist testified Friday in the state's $3.7 billion bench trial against Meta.
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May 08, 2026
General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million — the largest penalty imposed to date under California's data privacy law — and halt its sale of geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies to resolve claims that it illegally kept and handed off this information to a pair of data brokers, California's attorney general and several other state enforcers announced Friday.
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May 08, 2026
Electronic discovery and information law firm Redgrave LLP has hired a new partner to work in its Washington, D.C., office, saying he has played senior legal roles at a cryptocurrency exchange, a major telecommunications company and a disputes and forensic technology firm.
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May 08, 2026
The Colorado General Assembly has passed a bill that limits companies and others from using consumers' and workers' personal data for setting individualized consumer prices and worker wages.
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May 08, 2026
A former Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz attorney who later worked for investment bank LionTree LLC is an unindicted co-conspirator in a sweeping alleged insider trading scheme that involved stolen information from several prominent law firms, according to a review of publicly available information.
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May 08, 2026
A D.C. federal court rejected Google's request to pause parts of an order in the government's search monopolization case requiring it to give rivals syndicated search results and data, but will allow Google to try again once a competitor is lined up for access.
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May 07, 2026
An online safety expert testified Thursday that Meta would not be unduly burdened by age-verification reforms New Mexico's attorney general is seeking in a $3.7 billion bench trial over harm to teen users of its social media platforms, given that European regulators in recent weeks announced nearly identical demands.
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May 07, 2026
Democratic U.S. senators are calling on the "Big Three" credit bureaus to explain how they're adapting their consumer credit scoring and reporting to account for buy-now-pay-later products, citing concerns about inconsistent tracking of a fast-growing source of everyday purchase financing.
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May 07, 2026
The top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee has called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to provide more information about the company's reported plans to introduce stablecoin-based payment features for its users, accusing it of a "deeply troubling" lack of transparency about the project.
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May 07, 2026
The U.S. Department of Defense told the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acted well within his statutory discretion when he labeled Anthropic PBC a supply-chain risk to U.S. national security, rejecting Anthropic's claims of retaliation.
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May 07, 2026
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. faces a proposed consumer class action alleging it failed to effectively safeguard private information for current and former clients after hackers claimed they stole information and sought a ransom payment.
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May 07, 2026
Meta and its Instagram platform asked a Los Angeles judge to override a landmark jury verdict awarding millions of dollars in damages to a woman claiming she became addicted to the social media site as a child, saying in the alternative they deserve a new trial.
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May 07, 2026
Meta moved Wednesday to exit a Washington state woman's lawsuit claiming she was maligned online after a secret dashcam video of her texting while driving went viral, contending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act safeguards the social media giant from liability for posts on its Facebook and Instagram platforms.
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May 07, 2026
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia asked a federal judge this week to reassert control over the U.S. Department of Justice's demand for records of gender-affirming care, fearing the government's withdrawal of its local appeal and a case filed against another hospital in Texas portended "forum shopping" for a friendlier court.
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May 07, 2026
The U.K. government asked an appeals court on Thursday for permission to challenge a ruling quashing its decision to defer Portugal's extradition request for the founder of online cybercrime marketplace RaidForums in favor of that of the U.S.
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May 07, 2026
Fulton County has fallen short in its bid to recover 2020 election ballots seized by the FBI, with a Georgia federal judge ruling that though the federal government's search warrant application was flawed, those problems didn't add up to a "callous disregard" for the county's rights.
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May 06, 2026
An executive for a child protection organization told a New Mexico judge Wednesday that "ongoing quality issues" with Meta's reporting and the use of message encryption have made it harder to deliver actionable reports to law enforcement, as the state seeks $3.7 billion in reforms at the social media company.
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May 06, 2026
A 20-year-old California man with the nickname "GothFerrari" was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 78 months behind bars for his role in a sprawling cyber scam involving more than a dozen defendants who stole more than $250 million in cryptocurrency from people across the United States, according to prosecutors.
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May 06, 2026
Amazon customers claimed in a proposed nationwide class action Wednesday that the e-commerce giant's Fire TV products illegally capture and analyze everything that users see and hear through their devices, including streamed content, personal photos and security camera streams.
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May 06, 2026
Major wireless carriers are looking toward a future driven by artificial intelligence, but say its full potential can only be reached if policymakers give them more access to exclusive airwaves in the prime midband range.
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May 06, 2026
A Massachusetts judge will allow a social media addiction suit brought by the state attorney general against TikTok to proceed, rejecting claims that the company is shielded by the Communications Decency Act and the First Amendment.
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May 06, 2026
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, waited too long to file a lawsuit over the leak of his personal tax returns, according to federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, which moved to dismiss the suit Tuesday.