D.C. Sues Zuckerberg Over Cambridge Analytica Data Breach May 24, 2022 By Erik Larson The District of Columbia said it sued Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg for his alleged role in...
U.S. Cities Are Backing Off Banning Facial Recognition as Crime Rises May 12, 2022 By Paresh Dave Facial recognition is making a comeback in the United States as bans to thwart the technology and curb racial bias...
Face-Scanner Clearview Agrees to Limits in Court Settlement May 11, 2022 By Kathleen Foody Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has agreed to restrict the use of its massive collection of face images to settle...
California State Bar Notifies 1,300 Identified in Data Breach May 10, 2022 The State Bar of California has begun notifying individuals whose names appeared in more than 322,000 confidential attorney discipline records...
U.S. Joins 55 Nations to Set New Global Rules for the Internet April 28, 2022 By Nandita Bose The United States and 55 other nations on Thursday signed a political commitment to push rules for the internet that...
Big Tech Blackout Set to Be Averted With EU-U.S. Data Pact March 28, 2022 By Stephanie Bodoni The European Union and U.S. broke the deadlock on a new data-transfer pact, potentially avoiding a doomsday scenario for tech...
Zuckerberg Deposition Blocked by Judge in D.C. Privacy Case March 18, 2022 By Erik Larson A request to depose Mark Zuckerberg as part of Washington, D.C.’s data-privacy lawsuit against Facebook drew a blistering denial from...
U.S. Supreme Court Spurns Google Bid to Avoid Shareholder Lawsuit March 7, 2022 By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Alphabet Inc’s attempt to nix a lawsuit by shareholders accusing the...
Meta’s Facebook to Pay $90 Million to Settle Privacy Lawsuit Over User Tracking February 22, 2022 By Jonathan Stempel Facebook agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users’ internet activity even...
New Jersey Domestic Violence Victim Suing Prosecutor Over Being Named August 19, 2021 A New Jersey woman who killed her abusive ex-fiance can proceed with a lawsuit that claims her rights as a...