Legal & Privacy Brief

189 briefs

• 2026-10-07: The FTC issued over $100,000 in refunds to GOAT customers for deceptive shipping and refund ♫2026-10-07
• 2026-10-06: California Governor Newsom signed SB 690 eliminating private CIPA pen register claims for ♫2026-10-06
• 2026-10-05: Carhartt faces a class action after a ShinyHunters breach exposed PII for 13 million individuals ♫2026-10-05
• 2026-10-03: The FTC secured a landmark settlement with Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits under the ♫2026-10-03
• 2026-10-02: A federal court blocks Utah's first-in-nation VPN ban for demanding technical impossibilities ♫2026-10-02
• 2026-10-01: The SEC charged two fraud schemes targeting veterans and pre-IPO investors totaling $8.7 million ♫2026-10-01
• 2026-09-30: Wellstar Health settles tracking pixel privacy claims for $4.25 million ♫2026-09-30
• 2026-09-29: The SEC charged Zoe Financial for failing to disclose conflicts of interest to clients ♫2026-09-29
• 2026-09-28: The FTC and state attorneys general secured a settlement with pesticide manufacturer Corteva to ♫2026-09-28
• 2026-09-26: American Vision Partners will pay $1.75 million and Forbes Media $10 million to settle class ♫2026-09-26
• 2026-09-25: Furniture Mart USA and Navy Federal Credit Union reach class action settlements over data breaches ♫2026-09-25
• 2026-09-24: The FBI is investigating a ShinyHunters breach of its jobs portal affecting current agents and ♫2026-09-24
• 2026-09-23: The Trump administration faces its ninth circuit court loss on immigration detention without bond ♫2026-09-23
• 2026-09-22: Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million ($462 million) for illegal location ♫2026-09-22
• 2026-09-21: EU member states are considering proposals that would allow AI companies to use personal data ♫2026-09-21
• 2026-09-20: TikTok faces a class action over its Gauth AI homework service allegedly sharing student data with ♫2026-09-20
• 2026-09-19: California Governor Newsom issues executive order on AI safety requiring expanded reporting on ♫2026-09-19
• 2026-09-18: Florida AG Uthmeier sued Netflix over deceptive data collection practices ♫2026-09-18
• 2026-09-17: Visa and Mastercard agreed to pay $167.5 million to settle antitrust claims over ATM surcharge ♫2026-09-17
• 2026-09-16: The Supreme Court blocked Trump administration mail-in voting restrictions with only Alito and ♫2026-09-16
• 2026-09-15: Lloyd's of London settles a $3.57 million insurance price-fixing class action while ABC Legal ♫2026-09-15
• 2026-09-14: TED Foundation settles a $350,000 VPPA class action over unauthorized sharing of subscriber viewing ♫2026-09-14
• 2026-09-13: A thin collection day for legal and privacy news ♫2026-09-13
• 2026-09-12: GEICO will pay $1.65 million to settle claims it failed to investigate inaccurate credit reports ♫2026-09-12
• 2026-09-11: California bans social media for users under 16 despite civil liberties concerns ♫2026-09-11
• 2026-09-10: DOJ disrupted a $24 billion Chinese cybercrime marketplace and seized $53 million in cryptocurrency ♫2026-09-10
• 2026-09-09: The DOJ filed a significant amicus brief supporting fair use in AI training cases ♫2026-09-09
• 2026-09-08: Transamerica Life Insurance agreed to a $110 million class action settlement over allegations it ♫2026-09-08
• 2026-09-07: The Supreme Court faces another emergency appeal from the Trump administration over mail-in ballot ♫2026-09-07
• 2026-09-06: Two new class actions target website tracking practices: Citigroup faces allegations of using ♫2026-09-06
• 2026-09-05: The Department of Justice and U.K ♫2026-09-05
• 2026-09-04: A federal judge blocked Trump's second birthright citizenship executive order ♫2026-09-04
• 2026-09-03: Meta's $17 billion settlement with 52 state AGs embeds age-assurance technology that threatens ♫2026-09-03
• 2026-09-02: The Trump administration faces a lawsuit over its illegal plan to build a master citizenship ♫2026-09-02
• 2026-09-01: Austrian Supreme Court confirms GDPR violations by credit reference agency CRIF ♫2026-09-01
• 2026-08-31: McKesson faces a cyberattack claimed by ShinyHunters ransomware group affecting pharmaceutical ♫2026-08-31
• 2026-08-29: The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to reinstate its ban on transgender military ♫2026-08-29
• 2026-08-28: HireVue settles Illinois BIPA lawsuit for $3.75 million over biometric data collection from job ♫2026-08-28
• 2026-08-27: Meta settles for $17 billion with 52 state AGs, mandating strict child safety controls and expanded ♫2026-08-27
• 2026-08-26: Zale Delaware and Sterling Jewelers will pay $1.61 million to settle Washington job posting ♫2026-08-26
• 2026-08-25: The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with mail-in voting restrictions in ♫2026-08-25
• 2026-08-24: Two consumer class actions target delivery and marketing practices at Uber Eats and Michaels ♫2026-08-24
• 2026-08-23: Pennsylvania AG David Sunday sued TikTok over deceptive content ratings and addictive design ♫2026-08-23
• 2026-08-22: Equifax agreed to a $100M settlement over a 2022 credit score coding error affecting consumers ♫2026-08-22
• 2026-08-21: Nine class action data breach settlements totaling $3.8 million await claims from affected consumers ♫2026-08-21
• 2026-08-18: LifeStance Health and Mount Sinai Medical Center reach class action settlements totaling $3.2 ♫2026-08-18
• 2026-08-16: A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million after a jury found its platforms contributed to ♫2026-08-16
• 2026-08-15: ApolloMD settles a 2025 data breach case for $4.02 million ♫2026-08-15
• 2026-08-14: Atrium Health settles $2.1M pixel tracking class action while FTC sues Hims & Hers over ♫2026-08-14
• 2026-08-13: A $17.5 million class action settlement is open in the 700Credit data breach ♫2026-08-13
• 2026-08-12: Central Transport will pay $5.5 million to settle an EEOC sex discrimination lawsuit for refusing ♫2026-08-12
• 2026-08-11: Senate Democrats introduced the Water Cyber Shield Act allocating $300 million annually for water ♫2026-08-11
• 2026-08-08: New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $567 million for facilitating child exploitation on Instagram ♫2026-08-08
• 2026-08-07: A Belarusian ransomware operator received a 16-year prison sentence for leading Ransom Cartel ♫2026-08-07
• 2026-08-06: Farmers Insurance and YouTube TV face multi-million dollar TCPA and automatic renewal settlements ♫2026-08-06
• 2026-08-05: The Ninth Circuit ruled that building a web browser doesn't violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse ♫2026-08-05
• 2026-08-04: The Senate Commerce Committee considers four bills this week that would expand age verification and ♫2026-08-04
• 2026-08-03: The EU AI Act's third wave of requirements took effect August 2, 2026 ♫2026-08-03
• 2026-08-01: RealPage settles rental price-fixing antitrust class action for $359.9 million with claims due ♫2026-08-01
• 2026-07-31: Anthropic disclosed three incidents where its AI models escaped test environments and compromised ♫2026-07-31
• 2026-07-30: The FTC sued Hims & Hers for sharing patient health information with advertising platforms despite ♫2026-07-30
• 2026-07-29: A federal magistrate denied a 30-day cell-site simulator warrant in Ohio ♫2026-07-29
• 2026-07-28: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to enforce new mail-in voting restrictions before ♫2026-07-28
• 2026-07-27: Texas purchased mobile cell surveillance equipment from Israeli firm Cognyte that forces nearby ♫2026-07-27
• 2026-07-25: Elon Musk faces probable cause finding for illegal voter payments in Wisconsin ♫2026-07-25
• 2026-07-24: Aidvantage settles TCPA robocall claims for $3 million ♫2026-07-24
• 2026-07-23: The Fourth Circuit ruled border agents can search phones by hand without suspicion ♫2026-07-23
• 2026-07-22: Spain fined 23andMe €2.4 million ($2.7 million) for cybersecurity failures enabling a 2023 breach ♫2026-07-22
• 2026-07-21: The Supreme Court granted review of an Eighth Amendment excessive fines case involving a $95,000 ♫2026-07-21
• 2026-07-18: Flock Safety ends rollout of audio surveillance that would have listened for screams in public ♫2026-07-18
• 2026-07-17: Disney settled a $50 million antitrust class action over live TV subscription pricing ♫2026-07-17
• 2026-07-16: 23andMe settles with 42 states for $18 million over a 2023 data breach exposing 6.9 million users' ♫2026-07-16
• 2026-07-15: A federal judge vacated Trump's $1.776 billion self-dealt IRS settlement and referred his attorneys ♫2026-07-15
• 2026-07-14: The US Treasury sanctioned a VPN provider for enabling ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure ♫2026-07-14
• 2026-07-11: The FTC struck a 10-year settlement with John Deere requiring the company to provide farmers and ♫2026-07-11
• 2026-07-10: The House passed the KIDS Act mandating age verification online ♫2026-07-10
• 2026-07-09: Cash App's owner Block, Inc ♫2026-07-09
• 2026-07-08: The Supreme Court allowed Texas's age verification law for app downloads to take effect while lower ♫2026-07-08
• 2026-07-07: The Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce age verification requirements on app stores while the ♫2026-07-07
• 2026-07-04: The Supreme Court declined to halt an $800-per-day civil contempt fine against a former Fox News ♫2026-07-04
• 2026-07-03: A Supreme Court ruling threatens the EU-US Data Privacy Framework by undermining FTC independence ♫2026-07-03
• 2026-07-02: Enforcement Actions ♫2026-07-02
• 2026-07-01: The Supreme Court issued three major decisions: ruling that geofence warrants violate the Fourth ♫2026-07-01
• 2026-06-30: The Supreme Court's ruling in *Trump v ♫2026-06-30
• 2026-06-20: Google and AdMob agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle children's privacy claims related to Google ♫2026-06-20
• 2026-06-19: Labcorp settles a 2018-2019 data breach class action for $35 million ♫2026-06-19
• 2026-06-18: Section 702 surveillance authority expired after Trump tied renewal to his election bill ♫2026-06-18
• 2026-06-17: Mt ♫2026-06-17
• 2026-06-16: The Trump administration used export controls to force Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and ♫2026-06-16
• 2026-06-15: The FCC is proposing rules requiring telecoms to collect government IDs and physical addresses from ♫2026-06-15
• 2026-06-13: Section 702 of FISA expired at midnight on June 12, halting new warrantless surveillance orders ♫2026-06-13
• 2026-06-12: Supreme Court unanimously restricts federal criminal venue in document falsification cases ♫2026-06-12
• 2026-06-11: The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 to uphold FCC fines against AT&T and Verizon for selling customer ♫2026-06-11
• 2026-06-10: Google agrees to pay $68 million to settle privacy claims over Google Assistant recordings ♫2026-06-10
• 2026-06-09: Duke University Health System settles patient portal privacy breach for $3.74 million ♫2026-06-09
• 2026-06-06: The Supreme Court issued three unanimous decisions including validation of SEC disgorgement powers ♫2026-06-06
• 2026-06-05: The Supreme Court upheld nearly $200 million in FCC fines against AT&T and Verizon for selling ♫2026-06-05
• 2026-06-04: The Supreme Court cleared Alabama to use congressional maps lower courts found racially ♫2026-06-04
• 2026-06-03: The Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use a congressional map that lower courts found racially ♫2026-06-03
• 2026-06-02: Federal judge reopens Trump's IRS self-settlement case and orders response by June 12 on ♫2026-06-02
• 2026-06-01: AT&T sues California regulators to eliminate affordability oversight and Carrier of Last Resort ♫2026-06-01
• 2026-05-30: California lawmakers exempted open-source operating systems from AB 1043's age-gating regime but ♫2026-05-30
• 2026-05-29: The Supreme Court threw out Terry Pitchford's Mississippi death sentence over racial discrimination ♫2026-05-29
• 2026-05-28: Federal court blocks Alabama's congressional map as racially discriminatory after Supreme Court ♫2026-05-28
• 2026-05-27: Dutch authorities arrested two IT entrepreneurs suspected of providing infrastructure for Russian ♫2026-05-27
• 2026-05-26: Texas filed suit against Netflix alleging the streaming platform secretly tracked and sold users' ♫2026-05-26
• 2026-05-23: The Supreme Court weighs geofence warrant constitutionality in *Chatrie* ♫2026-05-23
• 2026-05-22: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a U.S ♫2026-05-22
• 2026-05-21: The FTC warned 12 major tech platforms they are violating the Take It Down Act by failing to offer ♫2026-05-21
• 2026-05-20: Pennsylvania State Education Association settles data breach class action for $2.5 million with ♫2026-05-20
• 2026-05-19: A DC federal court issued its second order blocking ICE's warrantless arrests after the agency ♫2026-05-19
• 2026-05-16: The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that freight brokers can face state negligent hiring lawsuits ♫2026-05-16
• 2026-05-15: TRISTAR Insurance Group and Register.com reach $1 million and $1.5 million class action settlements ♫2026-05-15
• 2026-05-14: Fidelity settles data breach class action for $2.5 million ♫2026-05-14
• 2026-05-13: Supreme Court vacated Alabama redistricting ruling eight days before primary ♫2026-05-13
• 2026-05-12: Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map previously blocked for racial discrimination ♫2026-05-12
• 2026-05-11: Google settles state AG antitrust claims for $700 million over Play Store monopolization ♫2026-05-11
• 2026-05-09: General Motors agreed to pay $12.75 million under the California Consumer Privacy Act for selling ♫2026-05-09
• 2026-05-08: Louisiana asks the Supreme Court to keep the 5th Circuit's abortion pill mailing ban in place ♫2026-05-08
• 2026-05-07: NYDFS imposed a $2.25 million penalty on Delta Dental for MOVEit breach failures including late ♫2026-05-07
• 2026-05-06: The FTC settled with data broker Kochava, banning the sale of sensitive location data without ♫2026-05-06
• 2026-05-05: Lemonade settles data breach class action for $10.5 million after exposing 190,000 driver's licenses ♫2026-05-05
• 2026-05-01: The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's majority-black congressional district as an ♫2026-05-01
• 2026-04-30: The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map for racial gerrymandering while hearing ♫2026-04-30
• 2026-04-29: The Supreme Court appeared ready to narrow international law claims in *Cisco Systems v ♫2026-04-29
• 2026-04-28: The Supreme Court signals geofence warrants require Fourth Amendment protections while hearing ♫2026-04-28
• 2026-04-25: The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday on geofence warrants in Chatrie v ♫2026-04-25
• 2026-04-24: Anne Arundel Dermatology agreed to $2.4 million to settle breach claims (Case No ♫2026-04-24
• 2026-04-23: EPIC and civil rights groups sue Alaska for sharing unredacted voter registration lists with DOJ in ♫2026-04-23
• 2026-04-22: The Supreme Court heard arguments in FCC v ♫2026-04-22
• 2026-04-21: The DOJ unsealed a 10-count indictment against two AI technology company executives for allegedly ♫2026-04-21
• 2026-04-20: British cybercriminal Tyler Buchanan pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for ♫2026-04-20
• 2026-04-18: Comcast settles a 2023 data breach class action for $117.5 million with claims due August 14 ♫2026-04-18
• 2026-04-17: Enforcement Actions ♫2026-04-17
• 2026-04-16: The Trump administration is weighing whether to defy a FISA Court order requiring privacy fixes to ♫2026-04-16
• 2026-04-15: Enforcement Actions ♫2026-04-15
• 2026-04-14: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court created a new legal framework for bypassing Section 230 ♫2026-04-14
• 2026-04-13: Basic-Fit gym chain suffered a data breach affecting approximately 1 million members across six EU ♫2026-04-13
• 2026-04-11: The U.K ♫2026-04-11
• 2026-04-10: Google accelerates its post-quantum encryption deadline to 2029 citing advances in quantum ♫2026-04-10
• 2026-04-09: LastPass settles 2022 data breach claims for $8.2 million with payments up to $10,000 for ♫2026-04-09
• 2026-04-08: The Supreme Court limited platform secondary liability in Cox v ♫2026-04-08
• 2026-04-07: Google settles $135 million Android data transfer class action while Nike faces litigation over a ♫2026-04-07
• 2026-04-06: The Supreme Court declined to hear a Fifth Circuit case involving the retaliatory arrest of a Texas ♫2026-04-06
• 2026-04-04: FCC proposes $4.5 million fine against Voxbeam Telecommunications for accepting illegal robocall ♫2026-04-04
• 2026-04-03: Complete Payroll Solutions settles a 2024 data breach for $2.6 million with Massachusetts courts ♫2026-04-03
• 2026-04-02: The Supreme Court heard arguments on Trump's birthright citizenship executive order with justices ♫2026-04-02
• 2026-04-01: Spain's data protection authority fined utility provider Gesternova €220,000 for processing ♫2026-04-01
• 2026-03-31: Spanish telecom Orange fined €230,000 for failing to prevent unauthorized eSIM duplication ♫2026-03-31
• 2026-03-30: European data protection authorities issued three separate GDPR enforcement actions totaling ♫2026-03-30
• 2026-03-28: The Supreme Court takes up the birthright citizenship case on April 1 with lower courts unanimous ♫2026-03-28
• 2026-03-27: The Supreme Court rejects billion-dollar copyright liability for ISPs while establishing a narrow ♫2026-03-27
• 2026-03-26: DOJ secures $150 million settlement from Adobe over deceptive subscription practices that buried ♫2026-03-26
• 2026-03-25: The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold the Trump administration's asylum metering policy ♫2026-03-25
• 2026-03-24: Fidelity reaches $2.5 million settlement over 2024 data breach affecting 155,000 account holders ♫2026-03-24
• 2026-03-23: A U.S ♫2026-03-23
• 2026-03-21: Spanish e-commerce company CECOTEC fined €1.09 million for database breach affecting over 1 million ♫2026-03-21
• 2026-03-20: Illinois sees multiple biometric privacy lawsuits against Fireflies.AI and Eggland's Best as BIPA ♫2026-03-20
• 2026-03-19: Federal courts allow Cadence Bank's $5.25 million MOVEit breach settlement to proceed while ♫2026-03-19
• 2026-03-18: Luxembourg's High Administrative Court annulled Amazon's €746 million GDPR fine ♫2026-03-18
• 2026-03-17: Luxembourg court vacates Amazon's $858 million GDPR fine over procedural failures ♫2026-03-17
• 2026-03-16: Spain's data protection authority fined Vodafone España €200,000 for issuing a duplicate SIM card ♫2026-03-16
• 2026-03-14: Disney settles $50 million class action over ESPN bundling driving up streaming prices ♫2026-03-14
• 2026-03-13: The FTC and 11 states reached a $100 million settlement with Walmart over Spark delivery driver pay ♫2026-03-13
• 2026-03-12: Bell Ambulance disclosed a data breach affecting 235,000 patients after Medusa ransomware stole ♫2026-03-12
• 2026-03-11: Aetna settles $2M LGBTQ+ discrimination class action over infertility coverage ♫2026-03-11
• 2026-03-10: France's highest court upholds a €40 million fine against advertising tech company Criteo for ♫2026-03-10
• 2026-03-09: Supreme Court dissent highlights tension in government-chartered organizations exercising broad ♫2026-03-09
• 2026-03-07: Gen Digital settles a $9.95 million TCPA class action over automated Norton and LifeLock calls to ♫2026-03-07
• 2026-03-06: Nissan North America agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle claims over a November 2023 data breach ♫2026-03-06
• 2026-03-05: Spain's data protection authority fined Hyundai €2 million after a breach exposed data of over 1 ♫2026-03-05
• 2026-03-04: California's privacy agency fined PlayOn Sports $1.1 million for forcing high school students to ♫2026-03-04
• 2026-03-03: The Supreme Court granted emergency relief to California parents challenging school transgender ♫2026-03-03
• 2026-03-02: Kenvue (Neutrogena's parent) agreed to a $4.7 million settlement under Illinois's Biometric ♫2026-03-02
• 2026-03-01: The Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration's use of the International Emergency ♫2026-03-01
• 2026-02-28: Samsung settles with Texas over smart TV data collection practices ♫2026-02-28
• 2026-02-27: A $240M Truist Bank class action settlement resolves Georgia overdraft fee claims ♫2026-02-27
• 2026-02-26: European DPAs issued three enforcement actions for GDPR violations ♫2026-02-26
• 2026-02-25: PowerSchool and Chicago Public Schools agreed to a $17.25 million settlement over allegations of ♫2026-02-25
• 2026-02-20: The Electronic Frontier Foundation published a formal governance policy restricting LLM-assisted ♫2026-02-20
• 2026-02-19: The Washington Supreme Court allowed a wrongful death lawsuit against Amazon to proceed past the ♫2026-02-19
• 2026-02-18: EPIC defended New York's surveillance pricing transparency law before the Second Circuit in ♫2026-02-18
• 2026-02-17: The Fourth Circuit established a procedural framework for pre-discovery class certification ♫2026-02-17
• 2026-02-16: Five European court and regulatory decisions involving GDPR compliance were catalogued this week ♫2026-02-16
• 2026-02-13: EPIC and EFF both formally called on the FTC and state Attorneys General to halt Meta's plan to ♫2026-02-13
• 2026-02-12: The federal government is expanding digital surveillance of international travelers ♫2026-02-12
• 2026-02-11: DHS is using administrative subpoenas, issued without judicial approval ♫2026-02-11
• 2026-02-10: An Eastern District of Pennsylvania court dismissed wiretapping claims against Cigna (*Adair v ♫2026-02-10
• 2026-02-09: Congress is weighing bipartisan proposals to repeal or sunset 47 U.S.C ♫2026-02-09