by Patrick Kennedy | Aug 13, 2020 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
In California an accusation that the illegal harvesting the biometric data of over 100 million Instagram users has taken place has resulted in legal proceedings being initiated against Facebook, owner of the image sharing social media platform. The legal action was...
by Eoin Campbell | Aug 10, 2020 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell
Two court rulings made in July 2020 may prove to be among the most important legal precedents that American tech companies will ever have had to come to grips with. What is particularly interesting about these two decisions is that they were not made by the Supreme...
by Patrick Kennedy | Aug 7, 2020 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
A California federal court legal action alleges that Google has been tracking smartphone users’ app activity without adequate authorization in breach of the California Consumer Privacy Act. The legal action that was filed in the Northern District of California last...
by Patrick Kennedy | Aug 1, 2020 | HIPAA News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a (TLP:WHITE) FLASH alert following a rise in attacks using Netwalker ransomware. Netwalker is a new threat on the ransomware scene, first spotted in March 2020 after attacks on a transportation and logistics...