Jan 26, 2023 Kids' Privacy, "Dark Patterns" Produce $527M Fine Against Fortnite Game Publisher By Mitzi Hill The FTC in December fined EPIC games, maker of the ubiquitous Fortnite, more than half a billion dollars for deceptive practices relating...
Jan 24, 2023 Password Keeper LastPass Hit with Data Breach By Mitzi Hill LastPass, the cloud storage system for passwords, suffered a breach in late 2022 that has caused ripples in the security world. Some...
Jan 19, 2023 Madison Square Garden Uses Facial Recognition to Keep Out Certain People By Mitzi Hill In one of the more bizarre tech stories from late 2022, the New York Times reported that the owner of Madison Square Garden has started...
Jan 17, 2023 Software Not Covered Under Cyber Insurance After Ransomware Attack By Mitzi Hill In late December, a state supreme court ruled that a cyber insurance policy covering physical loss to electronic equipment and "media"...
Jan 12, 2023 Facebook Agrees to a $725M Cambridge Analytica Class Action Settlement By Mitzi Hill The data harvesting scandal over Facebook's sharing of user data with outside developers appears to be close to settlement. The social...
Jan 10, 2023 Google/YouTube to Face Revived Class Action About Kids' Data By Mitzi Hill The Ninth Circuit has unanimously ruled that a proposed class action about the wrongful collection and use of children's online data may...
Jan 05, 2023 Happy New Year, Except to Facebook/Meta By Mitzi Hill The EU is starting its privacy year with a bang: Facebook parent Meta will be fined hundreds of millions of dollars (again) in relation...
Dec 20, 2022 Facebook Parent Co Fined $275M for EU Privacy Violations By Mitzi Hill In late November, the Irish data regulator announced a $275M fine against Meta for privacy violations by Facebook. The company must also...
Dec 15, 2022 EU Court Strengthens "Right to be Forgotten" in Google Case By Mitzi Hill In a ruling in early December, the EU's top court (CJEU) decided that search engines must remove "manifestly inaccurate" information from...
Dec 13, 2022 Federal Cyber Agency Publishes Infographic about Phishing By Mitzi Hill 'tis the season...to watch out for malicious code and social engineering in enterprise emails. Actually, it is always the season to...
Nov 22, 2022 Senators Ask FTC To Review Twitter Security By Mitzi Hill Alleging that the recent Twitter shake-up / melt-down may be diminishing security and allowing disinformation to flourish, a group of...
Nov 18, 2022 Conversations with TED: California Consumer Privacy Act (CPRA) and Employer Impact By Mitzi Hill Ann Schildhammer In this episode of Conversations with TED, partners Mitzi Hill and Ann Schildhammer discuss the California Consumer Privacy Act (CPRA)...