Startup Law A to Z: Regulatory Compliance
one species in a complex regulatory and public policy ecosystem. This ecosystem is larger and more powerfully dynamic than many founders …
Hearing Friday in Jewel NSA Spying Lawsuit: EFF Asks Court to Let Case Proceed to Determine Constitutionality of Mass Surveillance
Oakland, California—On Friday, March 29, at 9:00 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will tell a federal court that its clients …
Facebook staff raised concerns about Cambridge Analytica in September 2015, per court filing
Further details have emerged about when and how much Facebook knew about data-scraping by the disgraced and now defunct Cambridge Analytica …
Court: Embarrassing leaks of internal Facebook emails are fishy
All those internal Facebook emails that got handed to MP Damian Collins during the UK’s fake-news inquiry, when he purportedly spooked …
Facebook sues developers over data-scraping quizzes
Facebook on Friday sued two Ukrainian men, Andrey Gorbachov and Gleb Sluchevsky, for allegedly scraping private user data through malicious …
The plot to revive Mt. Gox and repay victims’ Bitcoin
Mt. Gox is now undergoing bankruptcy rehabilitation in Japan overseen by court-appointed trustee and veteran bankruptcy lawyer Nobuaki …
Facebook Struggles in Privacy Class-Action Lawsuit
Facebook, in the midst of a class-action privacy lawsuit, was dealt a blow last week when US District Judge Vince Chhabria argued its …
Facebook agrees to do more to tackle scam ads after celebrity defamation lawsuit
Facebook has agreed to plough more resource into combating the use of its advertising platform by scammers, saying it will do more to …
UK’s Russia Attribution for NotPetya Upends $100 Million Lawsuit
Nearly a year after the British government formally laid the blame for 2017’s widespread NotPetya malware infections at Moscow’s door, …
Neiman Marcus Settles Lawsuit Over Payment Card Breach
Forty-three states have reached a settlement with Neiman Marcus over its 2013 data breach, one of several breaches from that period blamed …
LA sues The Weather Channel over selling users’ location data
Los Angeles has sued The Weather Channel (TWC), claiming that it’s been posing as a “personalized local weather data, alerts and …
Weather apps are secretly selling your location data to the highest bidder
Location data is a funny thing. You need it to get an accurate forecast, and they, the app-maker, need it to cash in on a free-to-you …
Google wins dismissal of lawsuit alleging facial recognition abuse
A long-running lawsuit filed against Google LLC over its alleged abuse of its facial recognition systems was dismissed Saturday by a …
Facebook Sued in U.S. Over Cambridge Analytica
Facebook violated consumer protection law by failing to protect personal data that consumers thought they’d locked down using the social …
Nintendo Sues Californian for Selling Modded NES Classic and Switch Hacks
Nintendo really, really doesn’t like piracy. Earlier this week, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against a California man who allegedly sold …
First Lawsuits Filed in Starwood Hotels’ Breach
Legal fallout from the massive Starwood Hotels reservation breach reported last week has begun, with class-action suits filed on behalf of …
Facebook appeals UK data watchdog’s £500k Cambridge Analytica fine
Facebook has said it will appeal against a £500,000 penalty issued by the UK’s data watchdog this summer following a lengthy …
Google and Facebook accused of secretly tracking users’ locations
Google and Facebook have been hit separately by class action lawsuits accusing the companies of secretly tracking users’ locations, even …