Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • December 16, 2024

    Yodlee Judge 'Wrestling' With Invasion Of Privacy Question

    A California federal judge considering financial data aggregator Yodlee's bid to dismiss allegations it unlawfully collected user data said Monday that she is "wrestling" with whether the company's retention of users' bank credentialing information gave those users standing for an invasion of privacy claim.

  • December 16, 2024

    Mich. Judge Troubled By Scope Of Feds' CTA Data Collection

    A federal judge in Michigan said new disclosure requirements for small businesses seem burdensome and intrusive during a Monday hearing focused on the privacy implications of the currently blocked anti-money laundering law.

  • December 16, 2024

    Right-Wing Pair Can Be Charged For False Election Robocalls

    A Michigan appellate panel has upheld, for the second time, criminal charges against two right-wing conspiracy theorists who led a misinformation campaign that targeted Black voters, finding that even under a narrowed test from the state's top court, the pair likely knew the robocalls shared false information and were related to voting procedures.

  • December 16, 2024

    Cos. Urge Judge To Maintain Injunction On Transparency Law

    A Texas federal judge doesn't need to stay his preliminary injunction on the rollout of new corporate transparency rules while the U.S. government's appeal of his decision is pending at the Fifth Circuit, a business lobbying group and others said Monday.

  • December 16, 2024

    DraftKings Sued In NY For Secret Use Of Meta Tracking Pixel

    A New York City resident filed a proposed class action against DraftKings, alleging the sports betting company intentionally disclosed personal information of its customers to third parties for targeted advertising, in violation of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act.

  • December 16, 2024

    Knicks Blame Raptors Arbitration Delay On Silver 'Conflict'

    The New York Knicks reiterated their claim that National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver is biased against the franchise and incapable of arbitrating their data-theft dispute with the Toronto Raptors, accusing Silver of a "clear conflict of interest.''

  • December 16, 2024

    Experienced Retail Adviser Joins Hunton In DC

    Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced Monday that a longtime vice president and senior counsel at the National Retail Federation has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a public policy and government relations partner.

  • December 16, 2024

    The Biggest Massachusetts High Court Rulings Of 2024

    Massachusetts' highest court added two justices this year while taking up several novel legal issues, including one town's effort to phase out the sale of tobacco, a paralyzed Uber rider's fight against arbitration, and a dispute over whether a hospital website's use of tracking cookies violates the state wiretap statute.

  • December 16, 2024

    Justices Pass On TCPA Case Over Fax Promoting Webinar

    The nation's top court on Monday declined to take up a healthcare technology company's appeal seeking to stave off a proposed class action accusing it of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending faxes about a free webinar.

  • December 13, 2024

    OpenAI Slams Musk's 'Evidence-Free' Bid To Block For-Profit

    OpenAI urged a California federal judge Friday to reject Elon Musk's bid to block the artificial intelligence research organization from transitioning into a for-profit enterprise, scoffing at Musk's assertions of anticompetitive practices and arguing that the injunctive motion is "just another evidence-free effort to harass a competitor."

  • December 13, 2024

    SEC's Corporation Finance Director Gerding To Step Down

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that the head of its Division of Corporation Finance, who oversaw the finalization of controversial new rules covering environmental disclosures and share repurchases, will leave the agency at the end of the year.

  • December 13, 2024

    DC Circ. Declines To Disturb Law That Could Ban TikTok

    The D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected TikTok's request for a preliminary injunction delaying implementation of a law requiring the app to split with its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd. or face a nationwide ban, saying that TikTok wants to block "the enforcement of a presumptively valid act of Congress."

  • December 13, 2024

    Cardi B Tries To Sink Ch. 11 Of YouTuber Who Owes Her $3.8M

    Cardi B has asked a Florida bankruptcy court to dismiss the Chapter 11 case of YouTuber Tasha K, saying she deliberately hid her assets to frustrate the rapper's efforts at collecting on a $3.8 million defamation verdict.

  • December 13, 2024

    Duke Energy Accused Of Negligence Ahead Of Data Breach

    Duke Energy Carolinas LLC failed to protect sensitive personal information ahead of a data breach in May, and now its current and former customers are at risk of identity theft and tax fraud, according to a proposed federal class action.

  • December 13, 2024

    ByteDance Ex-Coder Perjured Himself In Suit, Judge Finds

    A California federal judge imposed terminating sanctions against a former engineer at TikTok's parent company, finding he committed perjury in a suit alleging he was wrongly fired and ordered the dispute to arbitration.

  • December 13, 2024

    Virginia Judge Will Rethink Atty Award Amount In Bowling Suit

    A Virginia federal judge has agreed to reconsider a requested $3.2 million attorney fee award to a bowling alley chain in its suit claiming that the company's former chief information officer hacked into its CEO's email, finding that a state law doesn't explicitly permit attorney fees.

  • December 13, 2024

    Old Dominion, Workers Settle BIPA Suit Over Fingerprint Data

    Old Dominion Freight and a group of workers told a federal court that they reached a deal to end the workers' proposed class action accusing the company of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by scanning and storing employees' fingerprints without their consent.

  • December 13, 2024

    Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Davis Polk, Wachtell

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Google and TPG Rise Climate partner with Intersect Power, Gen Digital Inc. acquires MoneyLion Inc., Patient Square Capital acquires Patterson Companies Inc., and the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins sell minority ownership shares to private equity firms.

  • December 13, 2024

    3 Firms Guide Pair Of SPAC Listings Totaling $410M

    Two special purpose acquisition companies began trading on Friday after completing initial public offerings that raised a combined $410 million, under guidance from three law firms, targeting industries spanning cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and financial technology.

  • December 13, 2024

    Lawmakers Press Tech Giants As TikTok D-Day Looms

    A pair of lawmakers on Friday leaned on TikTok to ensure it meets a Jan. 19 deadline to sell its operations or face a U.S. ban, while also pressing tech giants Apple and Google to be prepared to deplatform the video-sharing app if it refuses to sell.

  • December 12, 2024

    Anti-Abortion Activists Say Clinic Pushed Bogus Hack Claim

    The lawyer for an anti-abortion "pregnancy crisis center" on Thursday accused a Massachusetts abortion provider of knowingly filing a "far-fetched" complaint falsely accusing his clients of computer hacking, after the plaintiffs said they will be dropping those allegations but adding new claims in an amended complaint.

  • December 12, 2024

    DOJ Seizes Rydox Cybercrime Site, Charges Administrators

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging two Kosovo citizens who ran the illicit website Rydox with multiple criminal counts after the U.S. government seized the website, which has been used by cybercriminals to buy and sell thousands of Americans' personal information and dating profiles.

  • December 12, 2024

    Texas AG Targets Instagram, Reddit Over Youth Data Security

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday that his office is looking into minors' privacy and safety policies of more than a dozen tech companies, including Character.AI, Reddit and Instagram, as part of his long-running campaign to stop companies from selling minors' personal information without permission from their parents.

  • December 12, 2024

    USAA Inks $3.25M Data Breach Deal With 22K Customers

    More than 22,000 USAA customers have asked a New York federal judge to grant preliminary approval to a $3.2 million settlement to resolve a proposed class action alleging the company's security failures in its online insurance quote system allowed cybercriminals to open fraudulent memberships.

  • December 12, 2024

    3rd Circ. Backs Dismissal Of Anti-Abortion Group's Suit

    The Third Circuit on Thursday affirmed the dismissal of an anti-abortion pregnancy center's bid to block the enforcement of a subpoena seeking information about its donors, ruling its constitutional claims are not yet ripe.

Expert Analysis

  • 4 Steps To Address New Sanctions Time Bar Extension

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    Recent guidance from the Office of Foreign Assets Control clarifies details of the newly extended statute of limitations for civil and criminal enforcement of U.S. sanctions law, so compliance teams should implement key updates, including to lookback periods and recordkeeping policies, say attorneys at Freshfields.

  • Incident Response Lessons From The CrowdStrike Failure

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    CrowdStrike's incident highlights a growing problem within modern digital infrastructures — single points of failure that cause widespread disruption when things go wrong — so organizations should carefully review their digital infrastructure to identify unique areas of exposure or vulnerability, say Erik Dullea at Husch Blackwell and Kip Boyle at Cyber Risk Opportunities.

  • Series

    Playing Golf Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Golf can positively affect your personal and professional life well beyond the final putt, and it’s helped enrich my legal practice by improving my ability to build lasting relationships, study and apply the rules, face adversity with grace, and maintain my mental and physical well-being, says Adam Kelly at Venable.

  • What FCA Cases May Look Like In The Age Of Generative AI

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    Generative artificial intelligence raises unique considerations both in the context of potentially leading to False Claims Act cases and in the discovery and litigation phases of these lawsuits, says attorney Rachel Rose.

  • Law Firms Should Move From Reactive To Proactive Marketing

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    Most law firm marketing and business development teams operate in silos, leading to an ad hoc, reactive approach, but shifting to a culture of proactive planning — beginning with comprehensive campaigns — can help firms effectively execute their broader business strategy, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.

  • 3 Ways To Limit Risks Of Black-Box AI In Financial Services

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    As regulators increasingly highlight the potential for artificial intelligence to make unfair consumer credit decisions, and require financial institutions to explain how these so-called black-box algorithms arrive at conclusions, companies should consider three key questions to reduce their regulatory risks from these tools, say Jeffrey Naimon and Caroline Stapleton at Orrick.

  • Takeaways From EU's 'Pay Or Consent' Advertising Probe

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    Anne-Gabrielle Haie and Charles Whiddington at Steptoe examine key points from the European Commission's recent investigation into Big Tech's use of "pay or consent" advertising models, as well as the European Data Protection Board’s opinion on how such models can comply with EU competition and data protection laws.

  • Energy And AI: Key Issues And Future Challenges

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    Artificial intelligence promises new technical advantages for the energy industry, but it is also responsible for vast, and growing, energy consumption — so the future of AI and energy will require balancing technological advancement with regulatory oversight, environmental responsibility and infrastructure development, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • When Banks Unknowingly Become HIPAA Biz Associates

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    There appears to be significant confusion regarding the application of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to financial institutions when serving healthcare-related clients, so these institutions should consider undertaking several steps as a starting point in the effort to achieve compliance, say attorneys at Vorys.

  • The Regulatory Headwinds Facing Lab-Developed Tests

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    Though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's final rule regarding regulation of laboratory-developed tests outlines a four-year plan for ending enforcement discretion, and though this rule is currently being challenged in courts, manufacturers should heed compliance opportunities immediately as enforcement actions are already on the horizon, say attorneys at Kirkland & Ellis.

  • Opinion

    The Big Issues A BigLaw Associates' Union Could Address

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    A BigLaw associates’ union could address a number of issues that have the potential to meaningfully improve working conditions, diversity and attorney well-being — from restructured billable hour requirements to origination credit allocation, return-to-office mandates and more, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.

  • Opting In To CIPA Risk Mitigation After New Precedent

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    A recent California federal court decision, adopting a new, broad interpretation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, will likely increase the volume of CIPA claims and should prompt businesses to undertake certain preventative measures, including adopting an opt-in approach to using third-party website advertising technologies, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • Opinion

    It's Time For A BigLaw Associates' Union

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    As BigLaw faces a steady stream of criticism about its employment policies and practices, an associates union could effect real change — and it could start with law students organizing around opposition to recent recruiting trends, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.

  • Why DOJ's Whistleblower Program May Have Limited Impact

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s new whistleblower pilot program aims to incentivize individuals to report corporate misconduct, but the program's effectiveness may be undercut by its differences from other federal agencies’ whistleblower programs and its interplay with other DOJ policies, say attorneys at Milbank.

  • What 7th Circ. Samsung Decision Means For Mass Arbitration

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    The Seventh Circuit's recent decision in Wallrich v. Samsung highlights the dilemma faced by mass arbitration filers in the face of nonpayment of arbitration fees by the defending party — but also suggests that there are risks for defendants in pursuing such a strategy, says Daniel Campbell at McDermott.

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