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May 12, 2026
A California federal judge appeared open Tuesday to partly unwinding a jury's decision to convict a former Google engineer of trade secret theft and economic espionage, saying he's "somewhat skeptical" of the economic espionage charges since he doesn't see sufficient evidence the engineer intended to benefit China.
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May 12, 2026
The top Democrat on an influential U.S. House committee has begun to scrutinize corporate "surveillance pricing" practices, pushing Target, Walmart, Costco, Family Dollar, Whole Foods and 20 others Tuesday to explain whether and how they're using consumers' personal data to set individualized prices for certain products and services.
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May 12, 2026
A group of journalists and voice actors has hit Google, Meta, Microsoft, chipmaking giant Nvidia and speech synthesis software company ElevenLabs with proposed class actions in Illinois federal court accusing the companies of wrongly using the plaintiffs' voices to train their artificial intelligence models.
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May 12, 2026
The estate of a 16-year-old girl who was lured in by a 35-year-old man on the Grindr platform and tortured and murdered told a Florida federal judge to reconsider the court's decision to send the case to arbitration, saying developing case law says otherwise.
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May 12, 2026
A proposed group of Cigna health plan participants can't cite HIPAA to keep up their claims that the insurer improperly tracked their private information through its websites, since the privacy law doesn't cover the kind of information the company collected, the insurer told a Pennsylvania federal court.
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May 12, 2026
Bitcoin Depot systematically facilitated fraud involving cryptocurrency through its bitcoin ATM network, which targeted consumers who have lost thousands of dollars through the machines, according to a proposed class action in Idaho federal court brought by a couple who alleged they fell victim to such a scam.
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May 12, 2026
An Illinois agency that administers financially distressed insurers' estates Tuesday urged the Seventh Circuit to revive its lawsuit seeking insurance coverage for a cyberattack during which its financial chief provided confidential login information to hackers, who used his email account to instruct employees to wire them nearly $7 million.
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May 12, 2026
Cigarette and e-cigarette giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. was accused in North Carolina federal court of violating federal law by texting residential telephone numbers listed on the National Do Not Call Registry.
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May 12, 2026
The Colorado Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would revamp the state's landmark law regulating the use of artificial intelligence technologies in employment, education and other significant decisions, sending the legislation to Gov. Jared Polis for his signature.
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May 12, 2026
The Third Circuit declined to reinstate class claims made by a group of John Hancock customers from Illinois accusing Amazon Web Services Inc. and Pindrop Security Inc. of collecting consumers' voice data without their consent, ruling Tuesday that exemptions under Illinois and federal law applied.
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May 12, 2026
Alternative dispute resolution provider JAMS announced Tuesday the launch of a technology industry group to address disputes regarding new innovations such as artificial intelligence, digital assets and biotechnology.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is using generative artificial intelligence to help redact records before public release, summarize documents and evaluate scientific literature, federal officials said in a recent conference.
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May 12, 2026
Baker McKenzie has added a cybersecurity, data privacy and incident response partner from Alston & Bird LLP, who joins the team in Washington, D.C., at a time when cyberattacks and data breaches against companies and others are increasing.
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May 11, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday reminded Meta, Amazon, Apple and a dozen other tech giants of a looming deadline to comply with their obligations under the Take It Down Act to swiftly remove deepfake revenge porn from their platforms, warning that the issue is a "top priority" that the agency is prepared to quickly start enforcing.
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May 11, 2026
A computer science expert testified Monday that Meta should be ordered to revise minor users' content recommendation formula to prioritize safety as much as engagement, as part of the New Mexico attorney general's ongoing bench trial over teen mental health.
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May 11, 2026
The Texas Office of the Attorney General and LG Electronics USA Inc. on Monday struck a deal to end the state's claims that LG unlawfully spied on consumers, with LG agreeing to obtain consent for certain data collection through smart television technology.
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May 11, 2026
A group of families asked a Maryland federal judge over the weekend to block the U.S. Department of Justice from obtaining private medical records of thousands of transgender minors across the country, saying subpoenas sent to medical providers violate their privacy.
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May 11, 2026
A Chinese "internet of things" provider says it's been unlawfully and incorrectly designated as a "Chinese military company" despite having no connection to the Chinese military, according to a suit filed in D.C. federal court Monday.
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May 11, 2026
Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI Inc. has told a New York federal court that Reddit Inc.'s amended claims that its content was used illegally to train AI models should be dismissed because they still fail to show that Reddit holds copyrights on the "vast majority" of that content.
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May 11, 2026
Meta Platforms must face the bulk of a consolidated set of proposed class actions alleging it exploits an Android communications channel to tie users' browsing data to their Facebook and Instagram profiles, a California federal judge ruled Monday, while Google must face a negligence claim.
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May 11, 2026
A law firm asked a Michigan federal judge to throw out a proposed class action alleging it allowed a cybersecurity breach to expose its clients' personal and medical information, saying the complaint fails to adequately assert any identity theft or fraud occurred because of the breach.
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May 11, 2026
Grubhub has misclassified its delivery drivers as independent contractors and unlawfully collected their biometric data without consent, according to a proposed class action filed in Illinois state court.
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May 11, 2026
The state of Texas sued Netflix Inc. on Monday, alleging that it misled consumers by promising not to harvest or log their viewing data while quietly doing exactly that and selling that information to advertisers and other outside firms without users' consent.
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May 11, 2026
A proposed class has accused global commercial real estate company Cushman & Wakefield Inc. in New York federal court of not doing enough to protect current and former clients' confidential information from hackers, who ultimately breached the company's systems.
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May 11, 2026
The Third Circuit on Monday partly revived multidistrict litigation over the use of "session replay" software by Cabela's and Bass Pro Shops to allegedly record visitors' activity on their websites, with a three-judge panel finding two of the eight tossed lawsuits had pled harm from the recording of plaintiffs' financial information.