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California Students File Lawsuit Against DOGE Over Data Privacy Concerns A group of students affiliated with the U.S. Department of Education has filed a lawsuit against the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), alleging the agency unlawfully accessed their financial records. The lawsuit, believed to be the first of its kind, highlights growing concerns…
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Department of Justice lawyers proposed on Wednesday night temporarily restricting the Elon Musk-headed Department of Government Efficiency’s access to sensitive Treasury payment system information.Why it matters: The proposed order that would limit to two Treasury Department employees affiliated with DOGE “read only” access to the data comes in response to a lawsuit that seeks to…
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The Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management wants a federal court to drop a lawsuit that alleges the agency illegally set up a new email server to sent government-wide messages.
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Multiple plaintiffs filed a lawsuit on Tuesday asking a federal court in Maryland to block President Trump’s executive order to discontinue all federal funding for gender-affirming care in individuals under the age of 19. The lawsuit asked for a preliminary and permanent injunction based on several grounds. Plaintiffs alleged that the order violated the US…
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China’s Ministry of Commerce announced plans on Sunday to file a legal complaint against the United States of America (USA) at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports. This move significantly escalates the ongoing trade tensions between the two countries.…
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A lawsuit filed in federal court Monday alleges that the Office of Personnel Management set up an on-premise server to conduct last week’s mass email blast to federal employees and store information it received in response without doing a privacy impact assessment on the system as required by law. Filed by two anonymous federal employees…
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Morrison (Ill.) Community Hospital has agreed to a $675,000 settlement over a 2023 cyberattack.
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Attorneys general from 22 states filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging US President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. Central to the lawsuit is the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US. The clause was last interpreted in 1898 in United States…
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Elon Musk and once-ousted Trump administration member Vivek Ramaswamy will see a lawsuit filed against their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) today. Ramaswamy is supposed to be co-leading the agency alongside Musk yet was “privately undercut” in his pre-DOGE work and “has worn out his welcome” from the team, according to CBS sources. Adding to…
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The case has merged lawsuits from three publishers: The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. The publishers argue that OpenAI’s practices amount to copyright infringement on a massive scale, potentially threatening the future of journalism.Read Entire Article
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Mobile apps tracking driver data have been covertly embedded with Arity software, which enables the gathering of real-time location and movement, accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscopic details, and other information, including those concerning vehicle acceleration and distracted driving, noted the complaint by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Experts Expect Breach Lawsuits to Multiply, Bolstered by New Compliance StandardsTampa General Hospital has agreed to pay $6.8 million to settle a consolidated proposed federal class action lawsuit filed in a the wake of a 2023 data theft incident affecting about 2.1 million people. How might a potential update to the HIPAA Security Rule affect…
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Experts Expect Breach Lawsuits to Multiply, Bolstered by New Compliance StandardsTampa General Hospital has agreed to pay $6.8 million to settle a consolidated proposed federal class action lawsuit filed in a the wake of a 2023 data theft incident affecting about 2.1 million people. How might a potential update to the HIPAA Security Rule affect…
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A U.S. court ruled in favor of WhatsApp against NSO Group, holding the spyware vendor liable for exploiting a flaw to deliver Pegasus spyware. WhatsApp won a legal case against NSO Group in a U.S. court over exploiting a vulnerability to deliver Pegasus spyware. Will Cathcart of WhatsApp called the ruling a major privacy victory,…
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After a prolonged legal battle stretching over five years, WhatsApp has triumphed over NSO Group in a significant lawsuit concerning the use of Pegasus spyware. The verdict, handed down by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, marks a major milestone in the fight against cyber espionage and reinforces the tech…
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Photobucket was sued Wednesday after a recent privacy policy update revealed plans to sell users’ photos—including biometric identifiers like face and iris scans—to companies training generative AI models.
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Environmental organization Greenpeace announced Tuesday that it reached a settlement with British oil and gas company Shell, which had sued the group over a protest. The legal dispute stemmed from an incident in 2023 when Greenpeace activists boarded a Shell oil production vessel to demonstrate against fossil fuel extraction and its environmental impact.