Subpoena Granted in Reno Mayor’s Lawsuit over Tracking Device January 25, 2023 A Nevada judge has granted subpoenas sought by Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve to force a private investigator to identify who...
460K Partial Social Security Numbers Mistakenly Released in Washington January 24, 2023 A county in Washington inadvertently released nearly half a million partial Social Security Numbers when responding to a routine public...
Washington Bill Would Force Period Tracking Apps to Follow Privacy Laws January 18, 2023 When the Supreme Court last June stripped away constitutional protections for abortion, concerns grew over the use of period tracking...
Google, YouTube Content Providers Must Face U.S. Children’s Privacy Lawsuit December 29, 2022 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit accusing Alphabet Inc’s Google and several other companies of violating the...
Government Funding Bill to Bolster U.S. Antitrust Regulators December 27, 2022 By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz A $1.7 trillion government funding bill approved by the U.S. Senate Thursday will bolster U.S. regulators and make it easier...
“Fortnite” Maker Epic Games to Settle Alleged Privacy Violation for $520M December 19, 2022 “Fortnite” creator Epic Games will pay $520 million to settle allegations that it illegally collected children’s personal information and tricked...
Report Shows California Gun Data Breach Was Unintentional December 2, 2022 By Adam Beam California’s Department of Justice mistakenly posted the names, addresses and birthdays of nearly 200,000 gun owners on the internet because...
Google to Pay About $400 Million to Settle Location-Tracking Lawsuit November 14, 2022 By Diane Bartz and Alexandra Alper Alphabet’s Google will pay $391.5 million to settle allegations by 40 states that the search and advertising giant illegally tracked...
NSA Watchdog Concluded One Analyst’s Surveillance Project Went Too Far November 3, 2022 By Katrina Manson, William Turton and Jason Leopold An “experienced” analyst working at the National Security Agency developed a surveillance project about a decade ago that resulted in...
Privacy Watchdog Suit Says California Utility Targeted Asians in Pot Searches September 26, 2022 Extraordinary use of electricity has long been a telltale sign of illegal grow houses producing thousands of marijuana plants hidden...