Ken Silva

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• LabMD urges US judge to reject FTC "procedural gamesmanship"
• Class action roundup: Meta moves to settle, Clearview AI handed loss
• IRS facial recognition plan collected data on 7 million Americans, lawmaker says
• Meta to take $10 billion hit from Apple’s privacy changes
• FTC staff battling with LabMD over liability from hacking scandal
• Clearview AI’s customers could be on the hook in class action litigation
• Google sued for using ‘dark patterns’ to track users
• LabMD suing US federal government over Tiversa hacking scandal
• Florida privacy legislation to hinge on enforcement debate – again
• Data privacy claims against Facebook survive early stage of antitrust lawsuit
• Arizona bill would ban taxpayer-funded ransomware payments
• Executives held personally liable in FTC privacy action
• Antitrust meets biometric privacy in $31 billion Meta lawsuit
• FTC releases more redacted Facebook privacy audit records
• Spyware vendor and executives targeted
• Ransomware rulings leave insurance industry in flux
• Microsoft obtains court order to seize hacking sites
• FBI document disproves need encryption backdoor, NGO says
• Data security considerations add new wrinkle to Brazilian labour law
• Antitrust legislation would sacrifice app security, policy experts warn
• Facebook disputes research about how it uses children’s data
• US makes ransomware a top national security priority
• FBI: No drop in ransomware attacks since REvil takedown
• Snapchat sued after Apple privacy changes tank share price
• Report reveals scope of booming spyware industry
• Ninth Circuit deals NSO Group another blow
• Small banks call for cybersecurity regulation on big tech
• Tech companies fail to put brakes on auto data law
• US government sanctions NSO Group
• Blackstone’s Ancestry.com acquisition violated genetic data law, lawsuit claims
• Latest BIPA action targets AWS
• Researchers: Privacy legislation could stem the tide of disinformation
• FTC finalises security rules for financial institutions
• US FCC pulls telecoms licence over surveillance concerns
• Apple privacy changes bite into adtech earnings
• California law enforcer sued for out-of-state data transfers
• Law enforcers dispute section 230 immunity for credit rating firms
• Clearview BIPA case veers into personal finances
• Ohio data bill would apply NIST privacy standards
• Report: 2021 data breaches already ahead of 2020
• Offshore regulator left in the dark about Pandora Papers
• ByteDance to provide settlement notification via TikTok inbox
• Identity theft complaints increased 375% from 2017-2020, senate committee hears
• One year, 1,000 cases
• Researchers push for more access to social media data
• CISA director: Too much information sharing could overwhelm agency
• FTC says it may release more Facebook audit records
• Lawsuit: Facebook overpaid on $5 billion settlement to shield Zuckerberg
• FTC withholds hundreds of Facebook audit records
• FBI may have cost Kaseya’s clients millions, senator says

• Pentagon could issue report on Afghan data by year’s end
• Civil liberties groups lament NSA “state secrets” case
• LGPD enforcer Miriam Wimmer talks WhatsApp, independence and more
• FTC votes to regulate healthcare apps
• FTC to make Facebook audits public
• Can California achieve data adequacy?
• Clearview mounts another BIPA First Amendment defence
• Facebook’s new FTC independent assessor revealed
• US enforcers employ new surveillance methods post-Carpenter
• FTC’s Chopra: Criminally charge stalker app developers
• Report sounds alarm over companies brokering active-duty military data
• Pentagon silent on Afghan biometric data programme
• Privacy takes a back seat at FTC congressional hearing
• Can big data help detect biological weapons?
• US congressional staffers resume work on federal privacy legislation
• Facial recognition scrutinised by US lawmakers
• Canada privacy law catches Google Search
• Sweeping Biden order takes action on data privacy and portability
• Colorado enters race to set US privacy standards
• Deadly data: Annie Jacobsen on the military origins of biometrics
• Microsoft counsel blasts US government for using too many secrecy orders
• The implications of the SCOTUS TransUnion ruling
• Biden threatens to void contracts from non-secure vendors
• Facial recognition companies turn to the First Amendment
• NY financial regulator ramping up cybersecurity enforcement
• US judge denies bid to put clamps on Clearview AI
• LinkedIn v hiQ remanded but key question remains
• Facebook FTC consent order to be examined in BrandTotal dispute
• Biden abandons Trump anti-TikTok campaign
• The saga of LabMD
• Colorado becomes third state to pass comprehensive privacy bill
• Civil liberties groups celebrate SCOTUS Van Buren ruling
• Facebook-funded research says Apple’s privacy updates harm consumers
• BrandTotal strikes bargain to stay afloat on Facebook's platform
• Brazilian DPA joins Facebook/WhatsApp debate in first major move
• New Ecuador data protection law takes effect, but much work remains
• Cyber insurers struggle to measure risk as attacks increase
• Google fails to shake California privacy suit
• Clearview AI declines agreement that would bar overseas data transfers
• Clearview AI says its offshore subsidiaries are dormant
• US senators focus ire on TikTok
• Compliance reports to be public under new FTC leadership
• Report: ransomware attacks spiked in 2020
• SolarWinds hack didn’t compromise HHS healthcare data
• Tycoon files GDPR-related action in US federal court
• Contact-tracing breach victims sue Pennsylvania health department
• Clearview ramps up BIPA defence
• Verizon selling Yahoo! for $5 billion after failed data strategy
• Enforcement debate stalls Florida privacy legislation
• SolarWinds revenue grows in wake of massive breach