Privacy News & Issues
Thanos Pappas reports: Many people worry about hackers stealing their personal data, but sometimes, the worst breaches come not from shadowy cybercriminals but straight from the companies we trust. According to a new report from Germany, the VW Group stored sensitive information for 800,000 electric vehicles from various brands on a poorly secured Amazon cloud—essentially leaving…
Michael Gennaro reports: Hoping for a dismissal, Google told a federal judge Thursday that it did not deliberately track, collect and monetize private health information from health care websites and that it could not control if a third-party, such as a health care web provider, sent sensitive information to Google despite Google’s warnings. In a…
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently launched investigations into Character.AI and 14 other technology companies on allegations of failure to comply with the safety and privacy requirements of the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (“SCOPE”) Act and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act. The SCOPE Act places guardrails on digital service providers, including AI…
Tonya Riley reports: A federal judge granted 22 states and the District of Columbia leave to file amicus briefs opposing a settlement to resolve claims that facial recognition company Clearview AI violated biometric privacy laws. A group of state attorneys general said the settlement has “severe flaws that undermine consumers’ fundamental right to privacy and…