California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a petition in the San Francisco Superior Court requesting that the court order Facebook Inc. to comply with an outstanding subpoena and investigative interrogatories issued by the Attorney General on behalf of the People of California.
In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg famously stated that privacy was no longer a “social norm.” Today, the Facebook founder is no doubt viewing social norms around privacy a bit differently, as are U.S. regulators and consumers.
The American Civil Liberties Union and its Massachusetts chapter filed a lawsuit in Boston, Mass. federal court suing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
The Philosopher Hericlitus once opined – “You can’t step in the same river twice,” implying that no concept remains static but is always churning and evolving.
The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") and Facebook, Inc. have reached a settlement, in which Facebook agrees to pay a fine of £500,000 ($645,000) to the ICO due to the company’s alleged failure to safeguard user’s data gathered by Cambridge Analytica.
Vimeo, a video platform, has been accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) for illegally storing, collecting and using individuals' biometric indentifiers and biometric information without written consent.
There are currently 550 fake domains set up against the 19 Democrats and four Republicans presidential candidates, as well as Republican Party funding sites, according to "Typosquatting and the 2020 U.S. Presidential election: Cyberspace as the new political battleground" report, released by Digital Shadows.
A large amount of campaign websites (70 percent) reviewed in an audit failed to meet security and privacy best practices, according to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaign Audit by the Online Trust Alliance (OTA).
