Maine Regulators Reject Letting Utility Report Suspect Marijuana Growers to Police August 16, 2024 Maine utility regulators unanimously rejected on Tuesday an electric utility’s proposal to proactively report high consumption that signals a marijuana...
TikTok Sued by US for Allegedly Breaking Kids’ Privacy Law August 5, 2024 By Leah Nylen TikTok was sued by the US for allegedly collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy act, three...
DOJ Drops Claims That TikTok Misled US Consumers in Lawsuit June 24, 2024 By Leah Nylen and Chris Strohm The US Justice Department is dropping one of two proposed claims against ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, planning to focus a consumer...
Michigan Supreme Court Rules Against Couple in Drone Surveillance Case May 7, 2024 By Ed White The Michigan Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a local government Friday in a dispute over sending a drone...
Ring in California Paying $5.6M to Customers as Part of Privacy Settlement April 30, 2024 By Wyatte Grantham-Philips The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with...
FTC Asks Congress for Authority Over Its Own Consumer Cases April 11, 2024 By Leah Nylen The US Federal Trade Commission is asking Congress to change the law so it can handle its own privacy settlements...
Ring Will No Longer Allow Police to Request Users’ Doorbell Camera Footage January 26, 2024 By Haleluya Hadero Amazon-owned Ring will stop allowing police departments to request doorbell camera footage from users, marking an end to a feature...
Majority of Underwriters Predict Cyber Risks Grow ‘Greatly’ in 2024: Survey January 18, 2024 By Elizabeth Blosfield Underwriters who thought the growing cyber risk landscape of the past several years would level off soon might want to...
Google Settles $5 Billion Consumer Privacy Lawsuit December 29, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel Alphabet’s Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who...
Rite Aid Banned From AI Facial Recognition by FTC After Misuse December 21, 2023 By Leah Nylen Rite Aid Corp. must stop using facial recognition for the next five years as part of a privacy settlement with...