Employers Beware: Working from Home Creates New Cyber Risks March 19, 2020 By Kartikay Mehrotra, William Turton and Alyza Sebenius As companies and government agencies send their employees home to avoid contact with the coronavirus, many cyber-security teams are facing...
Court Dashes Teens’ Hopes, Says Suit Can’t Force Climate Action by Government January 20, 2020 By Edvard Pettersson, Andrew Harris, Bloomberg and Kartikay Mehrotra Climate change should be addressed by Congress and the electorate, not the courts, a federal appeals panel ruled in ending...
Facebook Faces Lawsuit for Data Breach Affecting Nearly 30 Million Users June 24, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Aoife White Facebook Inc. failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of...
Trump Deregulation Plan Facing Court Challenge by 3 States April 5, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Andrew Harris, Bloomberg California, Oregon and Minnesota sued President Donald Trump and several top cabinet officials over the administration’s requirement that federal agencies...
Startup CEO Exonerated from Crimes, Seeks Compensation for Firing March 13, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Sarah McBride Zain Jaffer’s charmed, Silicon Valley life was about to collapse beneath him. It was October 2017 and Jaffer, founder of...
California Data Privacy Proposal Could Get Even Tougher February 25, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra The strongest data privacy law in the country may be about to get sharper teeth, and lobbyists representing the tech...
Alphabet Directors Sued Over Exit Pay, Coverups Tied to Harassment Allegations January 11, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra, Joel Rosenblatt and Mark Bergen Alphabet Inc.’s directors were sued by shareholders for approving a $90 million exit payment to Andy Rubin, the creator of...
Effect of Judge Ruling Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional Delayed for Appeal December 17, 2018 By Tom Korosec and Kartikay Mehrotra Obamacare was struck down by a Texas federal judge in a ruling that casts uncertainty on insurance coverage for millions...
Deaths, Damages Continue to Rise in California’s Most Destructive Wildfires November 12, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan and Kartikay Mehrotra The most destructive wildfires in California’s history have killed at least 31 people and forced tens of thousands more to...
Wells Fargo Agrees to Pay $2.09B to Settle U.S. Probe into Mortgage Sales Abuses August 3, 2018 By Hannah Levitt and Kartikay Mehrotra Ten years after faulty mortgages upended the global financial system, Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay $2.09 billion to...