Region: United States of America

Twitter privacy team departures following its acquisition by Elon Musk have raised questions among regulators over enforcement procedures, compliance and user data security.

15 November 2022

Google has settled location tracking lawsuits with the highest state attorney general-led privacy payout to date.

14 November 2022

Software giant Oracle is seeking to dismiss a privacy lawsuit by claiming that the plaintiffs have no standing to bring the action, cannot justify an extraterritorial application of California law, and fail to state any claim for relief.

14 November 2022

A recent survey found chief legal officers are increasingly playing a role in their organisations' cybersecurity strategy – but they likely aren’t leading such initiatives.

09 November 2022

Experian and T-Mobile will pay $13.67 million (€13.56 million) and $2.43 million (€2.41 million) respectively for data breaches compromising nationwide customer data.

08 November 2022

Coders have filed a putative class action suit against Microsoft and OpenAI claiming that the organisations violated licence agreements and copyrights, in what plaintiffs are claiming is the first case addressing the training of AI systems.

08 November 2022

Former Uber chief security officer Joseph Sullivan filed an appeal to his felony convictions, arguing the government failed to show his actions obstructed the FTC’s investigation or concealed a felony.

07 November 2022

A San Francisco federal judge has entered summary judgment on multiple grounds against hiQ as part of a long-running scraping dispute with LinkedIn.

07 November 2022

Recent biometric lawsuits filed by the Texas Attorney General’s Office signals the agency is willing to take on Big Tech – but its enforcement appetite for smaller companies remains unclear and Illinois is likely to remain the US biometric litigation hotspot.

04 November 2022

Days after Advocate Aurora Health revealed a data breach, the health care provider and its website tracking provider Meta were hit with a class action suit accusing the companies of violating patients’ privacy rights.

03 November 2022