17 Oct, 2024 TikTok Sued for Harming Children By Mitzi Hill Using state consumer fraud laws, the Attorneys General of more than a dozen states coast to coast have sued TikTok for harming children...
15 Oct, 2024 Scam/Fraud Warning Follows Hurricanes; Reminder of How Most Cyber Events Start By Mitzi Hill As if the toll of natural disasters were not bad enough, the reality today is that criminals use them as a way to perpetrate frauds on...
10 Oct, 2024 OpenAI: Follow the Money By Mitzi Hill In a not-surprising move, it appears that OpenAI is changing its status from a research-oriented non-profit organization to a for-profit...
08 Oct, 2024 California Privacy Class Actions Target Website Analytics Tools By Mitzi Hill There has been a spate of claims against small website operators in recent years, claiming that the pixels, cookies, and other trackers...
03 Oct, 2024 LinkedIn Suffers Outcry for Not Disclosing AI Use of Data By Mitzi Hill In late September, LinkedIn faced a wall of public opposition and shaming for failing to disclose that it was using user data to train AI...
01 Oct, 2024 California AI Bill Vetoed By Mitzi Hill California's governor has vetoed an AI bill that passed with flying colors in both houses of the state legislature, saying it took the...
26 Sep, 2024 Controversial Social Media Bill Signed into Law in California By Mitzi Hill Despite opposition from both the tech industry and civil rights groups, California has enacted a law that will impose restrictions on how...
24 Sep, 2024 Federal Judge Upholds CTA, Denies Requests for Injunction By Mitzi Hill In late September, a federal court in Oregon denied the requests of several named plaintiffs for a temporary injunction under the...
24 Sep, 2024 "Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms" Now Required Under State Privacy Law(s) By Mitzi Hill We have mentioned GPC (Global Privacy Control) before on this blog. If your company website does not yet employ GPC, now is a good time...
19 Sep, 2024 Utah Social Media Law Tossed by Judge By Mitzi Hill For much of the last two years, state and federal regulators have been trying to pass social media laws to protect children online (from...
12 Sep, 2024 Bipartisan Bills Would Promote Cyber Security Efforts in Healthcare By Mitzi Hill The Senate has passed, and in late summer the House introduced, legislation aimed at improving cyber security in healthcare. Congress'...
10 Sep, 2024 California AI Bill Would Make Companies Liable for "Critical Harms" to Humanity By Mitzi Hill California's legislature has passed AI-regulating legislation that, if signed, would directly take on developers of large AIs. The bill...