Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • January 23, 2025

    Section 702 Searches Require A Warrant, Judge Says

    Courts generally need a warrant to use the backdoor known as Section 702 to search through an American's communications, a New York federal judge has ruled in an opinion that the American Civil Liberties Union is calling the "first of its kind."

  • January 23, 2025

    Chinese Ride Co. Ordered To Produce Regulator Testimonies

    A New York federal judge ordered Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc. to provide testimony about its interactions with Chinese regulators before its 2021 initial public offering, rejecting the company's claim that Chinese law prevents disclosure.

  • January 23, 2025

    PayPal To Pay $2M To NY Regulator In Cybersecurity Deal

    PayPal agreed on Thursday to pay a $2 million fine to the New York State Department of Financial Services to resolve allegations that it failed to use qualified personnel to manage key cybersecurity functions and failed to provide proper training to address cybersecurity risks, resulting in sensitive customer information being vulnerable to hackers.

  • January 23, 2025

    Calif. Kids' Privacy Law Ignores 1st Amendment, Judge Says

    A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to preliminarily blocking for the second time a landmark California law requiring tech giants to bolster privacy protections for children, telling the state's counsel that nothing shows the Legislature "cared one whit about the Constitution," and "now you're trying to reverse engineer it."

  • January 23, 2025

    Federal Agencies Must Order Full Return To Office By Friday

    Federal agencies will order employees to return to the office by Friday at 5 p.m. to end the "national embarrassment" that remote work policies have fueled, the Office of Personnel Management said, following President Donald Trump's executive order.

  • January 23, 2025

    Meta Wants Mass. Justices To Intervene In AG's Suit

    Meta Platforms has urged Massachusetts' highest court to take up its challenge to a pending lawsuit brought by the state attorney general's office, which accused the social media company of intentionally designing Instagram to be addictive to children and teenagers.

  • January 23, 2025

    Corporate Transparency Law Remains Flanked By Threats

    The Corporate Transparency Act is facing threats across the branches of government despite the U.S. Supreme Court pausing a nationwide injunction on it Thursday, with another universal injunction in place, other court battles underway and some Republican lawmakers targeting the law.

  • January 23, 2025

    Khan Leaving The Federal Trade Commission By Jan. 31

    Federal Trade Commission member Lina M. Khan has said she'll leave the agency by the end of the month, stepping down after President Donald Trump's inauguration enshrined her demotion from chair to line commissioner.

  • January 22, 2025

    LinkedIn Accused Of Disclosing Subscribers' Data To Train AI

    LinkedIn Corp. broke the enhanced privacy promises it makes to paid subscribers by unlawfully sharing the sensitive contents of their private messages with third parties in order to train generative artificial intelligence models, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court Tuesday.

  • January 22, 2025

    Ga. Tech Says Gov't Hasn't Shown Cybersecurity False Claims

    The Georgia Institute of Technology has pushed for dismissal of a False Claims Act suit accusing it of knowingly violating U.S. Department of Defense cybersecurity standards, saying the government hadn't adequately explained how those rules apply to the university.

  • January 22, 2025

    Alex Jones Asks Conn. Justices To Review Sandy Hook Case

    Infowars host Alex Jones has asked Connecticut's highest court to review a $1.44 billion judgment for calling the Sandy Hook school massacre a "hoax," arguing his trial judge violated the state and federal constitutions by skipping causation, jumping straight to a default liability judgment and adding damages without proof.

  • January 22, 2025

    FCC's New Chair Names Agency Leaders, Staff

    The new Republican head of the Federal Communications Commission has put together his team and named career officials to lead key branches of the agency.

  • January 22, 2025

    Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds Slam Baldoni Atty's 'Media Blitz'

    Counsel for celebrity couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds told a New York federal judge that Justin Baldoni's attorney from Liner Freedman Taitelman & Cooley LLP has violated ethical rules with an "all-out media blitz" during their thorny litigation over the movie "It Ends With Us."

  • January 22, 2025

    Committee's Trump Probe Subpoenas Are Moot, Willis Says

    Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has urged a Georgia state court to quash a bid to enforce subpoenas from a state Senate committee investigating her handling of the prosecution of President Donald Trump, arguing the subpoenas are moot because "the old special committee no longer exists."

  • January 22, 2025

    Mounting Pressure For PE Exits To Drive IPO Volume In 2025

    Private equity-backed companies will generate nearly half of initial public offerings in 2025, analysts predicted on Wednesday, driven by a growing demand for exit strategies among investors that have owned stakes in companies for lengthy periods.

  • January 22, 2025

    CNN Fights Remand For Ex-NC Lt. Gov.'s Defamation Suit

    CNN urged a North Carolina federal judge not to send a defamation suit brought against it and a former pornography store clerk by the Tar Heel State's former lieutenant governor back to state court, arguing the clerk was fraudulently added to the case to avoid diversity jurisdiction.

  • January 21, 2025

    Ex-Meta COO Sanctioned For Deleting Cambridge Emails

    A Delaware Court of Chancery judge on Tuesday sanctioned Meta Platforms Inc.'s former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in consolidated litigation over the Facebook Cambridge Analytica data scandal, finding that she likely selectively deleted emails that related to the litigation.

  • January 21, 2025

    Trump Pardons Silk Road's 'Dread Pirate' Ross Ulbricht

    President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he granted an unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the cryptocurrency-fueled online drug bazaar Silk Road, in return for the political support he received from the crypto and libertarian realms.

  • January 21, 2025

    Key Justices Stay Quiet As High Court Weighs FCC Deference

    Several U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared open to giving district courts more leeway to review the Federal Communciations Commission's tome of regulations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, although the two justices expected to cast pivotal votes refrained from posing questions. 

  • January 21, 2025

    Microsoft Copyright Discovery Fight Ends With Mixed Ruling

    A Washington federal judge partly sided with Microsoft on Tuesday in a case accusing a Canadian firm and its overseas director of peddling stolen software product keys to unsuspecting customers online, eliminating one of the defendants' key defenses while rejecting the tech giant's bid for discovery sanctions.

  • January 21, 2025

    Citi Can't Escape NYAG's Wire Fraud Protection Suit

    A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday declined to free Citibank NA from a lawsuit filed by New York's attorney general, who accuses the bank of failing to protect and reimburse customers who have lost money to online wire fraud.

  • January 21, 2025

    Realogy Signs $20M Deal In TCPA Cold Calling Class Action

    Realogy and classes of individuals who allegedly received harassing phone calls from real estate agents in violation of federal telemarketing restrictions urged a California federal court to preliminarily bless their $20 million settlement, with Realogy saying Tuesday that the deal pays more than the classes' claims are worth.

  • January 21, 2025

    Brendan Carr Officially Takes Over As FCC Chair

    Brendan Carr took over as chair of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday, restoring Republican control of the agency as President Donald Trump kicked off his second term.

  • January 21, 2025

    Colo. High Court Says Personal ID Theft Limited To People

    The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a charge of identity theft against a man convicted of running a fraudulent nursing class, saying that while parts of the state's identity theft statute can apply to businesses, the portion concerning personal identifying information applies only to individuals.

  • January 21, 2025

    Paul Hastings Repping TikTok Buyout Consortium

    Global law firm Paul Hastings LLP said Tuesday it is representing an American investor group, led by the founder of Employer.com, that has launched a formal bid to acquire the U.S. operations of TikTok.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • And Now A Word From The Panel: The MDL Map

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    An intriguing yet unpredictable facet of multidistrict litigation practice is venue selection for new MDL proceedings, and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation considers many factors when it assigns an MDL venue, says Alan Rothman at Sidley Austin.

  • Navigating Restrictions Following Biotech Bill House Passage

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    Ahead of the BIOSECURE Act’s potential enactment, companies that obtain equipment from certain Chinese biotechnology companies should consider whether the act would restrict their ability to enter into contracts with the U.S. government and what steps they might take in response, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Dealmaker Lessons From CFIUS' New Enforcement Webpage

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    The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ recently launched webpage, which details the actions — and inactions — that led to enforcement activity, provides important insights for dealmakers about filing requirements, mitigation commitments and the cost of noncompliance, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • What's In Colorado's 1st-Of-Its-Kind Neural Privacy Law

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    Colorado recently became the first U.S. state to directly regulate neurotechnology with new legislation amending the Colorado Privacy Act to specifically protect biological and neural data, offering an example of how lawmakers can tackle the perceived regulation gaps in this area, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • What To Know About Insurance Coverage For Antitrust Risks

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    With all the regulatory activity surrounding antitrust and unfair competition claims, as highlighted by last month's D.C. federal court decision that Google is a monopolist, businesses must not only ensure compliance, but also understand their potential insurance coverage when such claims arise, says Micah Skidmore at Haynes Boone.

  • What The SEC Liquidity Risk Management Amendments Entail

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    Fund managers should be cognizant of the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission's recent changes to certain reporting requirements and guidance related to open-end fund liquidity risk management programs, and update their filing systems if need be, says Rachael Schwartz at Sullivan & Worcester.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Service Agreement Lessons From July's Global Tech Outage

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    The worldwide outages recently caused by Crowdstrike Holdings' misconfigured software update highlight the need to evaluate potential IT vendors, negotiate certain service agreement terms, and review existing agreements and diligence forms to help prevent future disruptions and mitigate the fallout should one occur, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • Calif. Bill, NTIA Report Illustrate Open-Model AI Safety Debate

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    The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s balanced recommendations for preventing misuse of open artificial intelligence models, contrasted with a more aggressive California bill, demonstrate an evolving regulatory debate about balancing democratic access to this powerful new technology against potential risks to the public, say Stuart Meyer and Fredrick Tsang at Fenwick.

  • Complying With FTC's Final Rule On Sham Online Reviews

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    The Federal Trade Commission's final rule on deceptive acts and practices in online reviews and testimonials is effective Oct. 21, and some practice tips can help businesses avert noncompliance risks, say Airina Rodrigues and Jonathan Sandler at Brownstein Hyatt.

  • Opinion

    A Fuzzy Label With Bite: FTC Must Define Surveillance Pricing

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    The Federal Trade Commission recently issued orders to eight companies — including Mastercard, McKinsey and Chase — seeking information on "surveillance pricing," but the order doesn't explain the term or make the distinction between legal and illegal practices, leaving any company that uses personalized pricing in the dark, says Chris Wlach at Huge.

  • New Employer Liability Risks In Old Ill. Genetic Privacy Law

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    Illinois’ Genetic Information Privacy Act has been litigated very sparsely, but two recent federal court decisions — Taylor v. Union Pacific and McKnight v. United Airlines — holding that preemployment family medical history questions violated the 1998 law may encourage more lawsuits, say Peter Berk and Madison Shepley at Clark Hill.

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