Texas Lawsuit Alleges Allstate Illegally Collects Driver Data January 13, 2025 By Ezra Amacher The State of Texas on Monday filed a lawsuit against Allstate, alleging the insurance company illegally collects driver data through...
California Teen Suspected of Being a Member of Scattered Spider Hacking Gang December 4, 2024 By Margi Murphy An accused teenage hacker who was arrested last month in California is suspected of being a member of the notorious...
Zoom Offers $18 Million to Settle SEC Privacy Probe From 2020 December 2, 2024 By Brody Ford Zoom Communications Inc. has offered $18 million to settle a four-year-old US Securities and Exchange Commission probe related to its...
Meta Pushes Back Against FTC Effort to Toughen Privacy Order November 13, 2024 By Leah Nylen Meta Platforms Inc. rebuffed the Federal Trade Commission’s plans to modify a 2020 privacy settlement with the company, arguing that...
Top EU Privacy Regulator Opens Probe Into Google’s AI Compliance September 12, 2024 By Padraic Halpin The top EU privacy regulator opened an inquiry on Thursday into whether search engine giant Google adequately protected European Union...
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...