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Latest News in Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • February 24, 2026

    Accounting Firm Slow To Issue Data Breach Notice, Suit Says

    A New Jersey accounting firm has been accused of failing to take reasonable measures to safeguard the private information of its clients, according to a proposed class action filed in New Jersey federal court.

  • February 24, 2026

    DC Circ. Won't Stop IRS From Sharing Data With DHS

    Immigrant advocacy groups challenging the legality of an information-sharing agreement between federal immigration authorities and the IRS are not entitled to a court order stopping the tax agency from sharing taxpayer addresses for enforcement purposes, the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday. 

  • February 24, 2026

    Reddit Fined £14.5M By ICO For Children Privacy Failures

    Britain's privacy regulator on Tuesday fined social media company Reddit Inc. £14.5 million ($19.6 million) for unlawfully processing children's personal information and failing to protect young users' privacy.

  • February 23, 2026

    Meta Can't Use Calif. Law To Ax Ill. Biometric Privacy Dispute

    The protections offered by California's data privacy law are an inferior substitute for those under Illinois' biometric privacy law, an Illinois federal judge found, refusing to allow Meta to escape a proposed class action accusing it of improperly storing Messenger and Messenger Kids users' facial geometries.

  • February 23, 2026

    YouTube VP Says 5-6 Hours Daily 'Very Good' For His Kids

    A YouTube vice president testified Monday in a California bellwether trial over allegations that the platform and Instagram harm children, denying that YouTube was designed to be addictive and saying he'd allowed his children to watch five to six hours a day and that it had been "very good" for them. 

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