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February 21, 2025
Crypto Mining Machine Co. Bgin Blockchain Files $50M IPO
Cryptocurrency mining company Bgin Blockchain Ltd. filed for an initial public offering Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that is expected to raise $50 million, represented by Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC and underwriters counsel Robinson & Cole LLP.
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February 21, 2025
Microsoft Says Encryption Suit Misunderstands Its Tech
Microsoft says there's no longer any need for it to face a patent lawsuit over email encryption, telling a Washington federal court that it has become clear that its software "does not work" the way the plaintiff says it does.
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February 21, 2025
WebMD Users Secure Class Certification In Video Privacy Suit
WebMD faces a certified class action accusing the health information site of violating federal law by sharing roughly half a million of its users' video-viewing history with Facebook, after a Georgia federal judge rejected some of the website's arguments against certification as "absurd."
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February 21, 2025
Telecom Biz Re-Ups Push To Exempt BEAD Funds From Taxes
The telecom industry is again pressing policymakers to make income from federal broadband deployment grants tax-free.
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February 21, 2025
Va. Judge Won't Bar DOGE Access To Treasury, OPM Data
A Virginia federal judge on Friday rejected a data privacy watchdog's bid for a preliminary injunction blocking Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing data systems housed in the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
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February 21, 2025
Golf Course Operator Wants Workers' Data Breach Suits Axed
KemperSports is asking an Illinois federal judge to permanently toss a group of current and former employees' lawsuits over an April data breach, arguing it's clear they have no claims since "nothing apparently has happened" to them nearly a year after the incident.
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February 21, 2025
Billionaire's Tax Privacy Suit Against Booz Allen Proceeds
A billionaire's lawsuit against government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton blaming it for the theft of his tax returns in an unprecedented breach by a Booz Allen employee working at the IRS can move forward, a Maryland federal court ruled Friday, rejecting a bid to toss the case.
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February 21, 2025
2nd Circ. Sides With Cops Over 'Sense-Enhancing' IPhone
Police in Connecticut did not "search" a suspect's parked car when using the Apple iPhone's camera function to peer through his tinted windows because they did not violate his reasonable expectation of privacy, a Second Circuit panel ruled in upholding a trial court's evidence decision.
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February 21, 2025
Trump Media Board Plans M&A Expansion Fund
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp., the operator of President Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social, said Friday that its board has voted to authorize the creation of an acquisition fund that will focus on potential mergers and acquisitions across tech, finance and other sectors.
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February 20, 2025
Landmark AI Legislation On Kids, Bias Introduced In Calif.
A California lawmaker Thursday unveiled first-of-its-kind legislation aimed at protecting children from safety and privacy risks associated with artificial intelligence as well as a revised version of a bill addressing bias by AI tools.
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February 20, 2025
Calif. Privacy Agency Takes Regulatory Aim At 6th Data Broker
The California Privacy Protection Agency continued to keep the heat on data brokers Thursday, announcing that it's pursuing a monetary penalty against a Florida-based company that allegedly failed to comply with the registration requirements of a groundbreaking state data deletion law.
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February 20, 2025
New SEC Enforcement Unit Shows Drift From Crypto Focus
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission continued its efforts to shift its approach to digital asset enforcement under the Trump administration when it announced Thursday that it replaced the unit responsible for many of its controversial crypto registration suits with a new fraud-focused iteration that will take a broader focus on "cyber and emerging technologies."
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February 20, 2025
Chinese App Temu Wants To Arbitrate Minors' Privacy Claims
Chinese bargain-shopping app Temu has asked a New York federal judge to send to arbitration a proposed class action claiming it misuses users' data, saying an arbitrator must decide any challenges to the terms of a user agreement even though some named class members are minors.
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February 20, 2025
Warby Parker Hit With $1.5M Fine After HHS Breach Probe
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it has imposed a $1.5 million fine on Warby Parker Inc. following a cyberattack on the eyewear manufacturer's website that exposed the protected health information of nearly 200,000 customers.
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February 20, 2025
Judge Narrows Data Breach Suit Against Ga. Logistics Co.
A group of employees and job applicants who sued a Georgia-based logistics and warehousing company over a 2023 data breach have had their suit trimmed by a Georgia federal judge, who said they failed to plausibly allege several of their claims.
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February 20, 2025
11th Circ. Asked To Reinstate FCC's One-To-One Consent Rule
A pro-consumer group urged the Eleventh Circuit to revisit a ruling last month that overturned the Federal Communications Commission's requirement that individual businesses obtain each consumer's consent to contact them through comparison shopping sites.
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February 20, 2025
Education Tech Firm Faces Class Action In NC Over Data Hack
A nationwide education technology platform got hit with a proposed class action in North Carolina on Thursday over a "massive and preventable cyberattack" which allegedly exposed personal information including health data for up to 18,000 of its users.
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February 19, 2025
Meta Should've Preserved Health Tracking Data, Judge Says
A California federal judge considering sanctions against Meta for deleting data in privacy litigation over a Facebook tool's collection of patient health information said Wednesday that he's not convinced Meta had "malintent," but said, "I do think this information should have been preserved."
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February 19, 2025
News Site Ditches Suit Over Sharing Of Visitors' IP Addresses
A New York federal judge has tossed a proposed class action accusing online business news site Insider Inc. of unlawfully disclosing website visitors' IP addresses to a third party, finding that the plaintiff had failed to establish the type of concrete injury necessary to sustain his claims under California law.
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February 19, 2025
Blake Lively Says Other Actresses Will Testify Against Baldoni
Blake Lively has bulked up her sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit over the movie "It End With Us," saying two other female cast members were also uncomfortable with Justin Baldoni's behavior on set and are prepared to testify in the messy legal fight.
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February 19, 2025
Tech Co.'s Software Doesn't Meet CMS Needs, Judge Says
A Court of Federal Claims judge denied IntelliBridge LLC's attempt to block the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from seeking bidders for its hybrid cloud product engineering and operations contract, finding on Tuesday the agency isn't trying to replicate its batCAVE software.
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February 19, 2025
Citi Moves To Appeal NY Judge's Wire Fraud Protection Ruling
Citibank NA has asked a New York federal judge for permission to appeal his decision allowing New York's attorney general to move forward with a lawsuit accusing the bank of failing to respond properly to incidents of online wire fraud.
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February 19, 2025
Cybersecurity Official Rejoins DOD After Contentious Exit
Former U.S. Department of Defense official Katie Arrington, a key figure in establishing its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program who previously left the Pentagon after a contentious suspension, announced she has rejoined the DOD as chief information security officer.
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February 19, 2025
Funkadelic Keyboardist Won't Face Sanctions In Royalty Fight
A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday declined to issue sanctions against the estate of a former Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist suing the band's frontman in a royalty dispute, finding that the keyboardist's widow did not seem to intentionally lie about or conceal an agreement with a former defendant in the case.
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February 19, 2025
Crypto Group Urges Rollback Of IRS Broker Rule
A coalition of members of the cryptocurrency trade group Blockchain Association urged congressional leaders Wednesday to repeal a final U.S. Treasury Department rule implementing additional reporting requirements for decentralized finance brokers.
Expert Analysis
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Celebs' Suits Show Limits Of Calif. Anti-SLAPP Laws
Two recent cases including Amanda Ghost v. Rebel Wilson and Leviss v. Sandoval highlight the delicate balancing act courts must perform in weighing free speech against privacy and reputational harm under California's robust anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation laws, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody.
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Where Payments Law And Regulation Are Headed In 2025
The Trump administration will likely bring significant changes to payments regulations in 2025, but maintaining internal compliance efforts in the absence of robust federal oversight will remain key as state authorities and private plaintiffs step into the breach, say attorneys at Stinson.
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What To Expect From Federal Cybersecurity Policy In 2025
There are 12 cyber policy questions to keep an eye on as the new administration and Republican control of Congress present an opportunity to advance less regulatory approaches and revisit some choices from the prior administration, say attorneys at Wiley.
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Republican Trifecta Amplifies Risks For Cos. In 3 Key Areas
Expected coordination between a Republican Congress and presidential administration may expose companies to simultaneous criminal, civil and congressional investigations, particularly with regard to supply chain risks in certain industries, government contracting and cross-border investment, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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How Decline Of Deference Will Affect Trump Policymaking
An administrative law regime without Chevron deference may limit the Trump administration’s ability to implement new policies in the short term, but ultimately help it in the long term, and all parties with an interest in regulatory changes will have to take a fresh approach to litigation, say attorneys at Covington.
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5 Evolving Concerns For Family Offices In 2025
Complex regulatory changes and emerging operational risks will force family offices to stay on their toes in 2025, with timely action particularly necessary to address several tax and reporting developments that may affect their investments and business operations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Updated HIPAA Rule Is A Necessary Step For Data Protection
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' updated rules addressing cybersecurity threats in healthcare will necessitate significant investment in technology, training and compliance infrastructure, but are an essential evolution in safeguarding data in an increasingly digital world, say attorneys at Clark Hill.
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6 Predictions For Cyber Risk And Insurance In 2025
This year is likely to bring with it some thorny and expensive cyber challenges, including increased ransomware activity, more data breach class actions and continued efforts to define business interruption loss calculations, say attorneys at Wiley.
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7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring
President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Custodian Selection
Several recent rulings make clear that the proportionality of additional proposed custodians will depend on whether the custodians have unique relevant documents, and producing parties should consider whether information already in the record will show that they have relevant documents that otherwise might not be produced, say attorneys at Sidley.
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5 Privacy Law Trends That Will Continue In 2025
While preparing privacy programs for the year, companies should keep in mind several developments from 2024 that will carry over — namely, in the realm of artificial intelligence, passive data collection, combining data from multiple sources, privacy program expectations and managing vendors, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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The OIG Report: Preparing For Oversight In 2025
Across sectors, Office of Inspector General work plans and challenge reports for 2025 provide a trove of information on the issues and industries that will likely be the focus of government oversight in the year to come, says Diana Shaw at Wiley.
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What To Expect In Higher Ed Enforcement Under Trump
Colleges and universities should prepare for shifting priorities, as President-elect Donald Trump is likely to focus less on antitrust cases and more on foreign relations policy, while congressional oversight of higher education continues to increase, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q4
In 2024's final quarter, the New York State Department of Financial Services published guidance on mitigating the rising cybersecurity risks of artificial intelligence and remote technology workers with North Korean ties, and the state attorney general launched an antitrust investigation into Capital One's proposed Discover merger, say attorneys at Haynes Boone.
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Exercising On My Peloton Bike Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While I originally came to the Peloton bike for exercise, one cycling instructor’s teachings have come to serve as a road map for practicing law thoughtfully and mindfully, which has opened opportunities for growth and change in my career, says Andrea Kirshenbaum at Littler.