Privacy and Surveillance
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Capital One Financial Corp. was hit on Tuesday with a bevy of proposed class actions after it revealed it had been the target of a data heist in which 106 million people had their personal information stolen by a hacker who is now facing federal criminal charges… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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First American Title Insurance Co. was hit on Monday with the first of what is expected to be a growing number of lawsuits over a security flaw revealed last week that had exposed an estimated 885 million mortgage records containing sensitive information about home buyers and sellers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson announced a bill Monday that they said would make several fixes to the California Consumer Privacy Act, the latest move to modify the landmark law passed in 2018… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Facebook on Friday came under fire once again for allegedly mishandling users’ information, when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a multi-agency probe of the social media giant following a report that found it collected sensitive personal data from a number of smartphone applications… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Epic Games Inc., the company behind online video game “Fortnite,” failed to adequately protect players’ accounts, opening the door for hackers to steal sensitive information like payment details in a digital breach in 2018, according to a proposed class action filed Friday in Illinois state court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 